Part 1: Boyd notes the horse tends to get crooked on take off in order to give himself more room to jump. He adds some poles to guide the landing and works with the rider to focus on staying square on approach and square in position. As straightness improves, Boyd brings focus back to balance, rh...

Part 2: Boyd coaches the rider to work more on the approach to fences. They focus on being consistent in setting the horse up, making a correct turn, and maintaining straightness right until take off. The rider continues to work on not rushing the horse into the jump. Boyd helps her relax and try...

Part 3: Boyd sets up a course including oxers, verticals, a Swedish oxer, a Liverpool and combinations. He has the rider ride as if she is in competition, but a little slower as they're still working on well executed turns and not rushing into fences. Boyd offers constructive feedback after the f...

Part 1: David works with a rider to stay soft and give her hands over the jump to allow her horses front end to come up. He helps the riders create more effective turns by using less bend and controlling the hind end with a feeling of haunches in and keeping the shoulder back. The rider finally m...

Part 2: One horse spooks at a colored rail and David explains how horses react to different colors and how course builders use this to take their eye off the top rail to increase the difficulty. He counteracts this in his own program by constantly switching brightly colored rails. One rider works...

Olympic medalist David O'Connor gives a lesson on fine tuning stadium jumping. David works with a rider to be softer and give in order to allow her horse to position his head correctly coming into the fence. By eliminating the resistance and encouraging the horse in the last stride, he has a much...

Olympic medalist Buck Davidson works with a group of riders and their young horses on final show prep. Working in the stadium, Buck shares the importance of riding to the next fence. Despite the horses being young, he reminds the rider's that they need to be responsive and go where they are point...

Olympic medalist Buck Davidson works with a group of riders and their young horses on final show prep. Working in the stadium, Buck shares the importance of riding to the next fence. Despite the horses being young, he reminds the rider's that they need to be responsive and go where they are point...

Part 1: Buck Davidson works with a group of riders on their young horses, who have an event in a few days to share the routine he uses before he puts his horses on the plane for competition. He explains that in these final prep rides he focuses on reinforcing basics, and building confidence. Work...

Part 2: Buck reminds a rider not to over ride his young horse, and to focus instead on clearing one fence, then pushing him to the next one. He acknowledges that the horses are young, but explains that they still need to be held accountable to move forward off the leg, and go where they are point...

Part 3: Buck sets the riders up to jump a series of jumps on a circle, and most of them have immediate issues with their horse falling out between fences. He explains the idea that they must push the horses into the outside rein rather than just pulling, which is causing them to fall out. Buck en...

Part 1: Jimmy explains the value of ground poles as a training tool, as the horse goes through the exact same process to work over those as they would over a jump. He begins with a warm up over poles and encourages the riders to go with their horse and tests their feel by asking them to identify ...

Part 2: Jimmy discusses the importance of giving the reins and allowing the horses to look for his landing, but not giving the upper body, especially on green horses. He discusses the importance of the riders line of sight, and uses a small marker to help some of the riders focus on the right pla...

Part 3: Jimmy talks about the importance of being able to come into a jump and land it at the same speed, and then maintain that speed around the entire course. He continues to work with the riders to identify their individual strengths and weaknesses. He provides them valuable feedback to help i...

Part 4: Jimmy goes on to work with the riders seat, encouraging them to let their weight down into the saddle and swing through their back. By working on their position the riders are able to come more into balance and give the horses their head and necks. This creates better gaits and a nicer tr...

Part 5: Jimmy works with the riders on adjusting their stride and correcting their individual issues. He works with one rider who is coming into jump position to soon, pushing down while her horse is trying to take off, and consequently causing the horse to ding the rail. By correcting this issue...

Doug Payne, a member of the 2021 U.S. Olympic Eventing Team, gives a lesson to a jumper rider with a mare with an exuberant hind end. Doug’s skill in both eventing and show jumping helps this pair find the real source of her problems—being behind the leg. Watch to see when Doug rides her to asses...

PART 1: Olympic team member Doug Payne brings us this fantastic jump lesson with a mare that specializes in the jumpers rather than eventing, but he focuses on the principles common to all stadium rounds. He and the jumper rider first discuss the balance needed on the approach to a jump and how t...

PART 2: Doug Payne has the rider apply the balance from the first exercise on a course. As horse and rider begin the course, Doug has them first establish a canter with more ground cover and engagement. He gives him tips on how to deal with the mare’s exuberant hind end and make quick turns on la...

PART 3: Doug Payne gets on the mare and works through the sucking back in the canter, jumps through an exercise and discovers that she may be objecting to some poles that are on the ground before a line. When the rider remounts, Doug instructs him to put more leg on whenever the mare’s hind end g...

Olympian David O'Connor works with riders over a series of tough angled fences in his lesson focused on the horse looking for their fence. David works with the riders on moving the horse's shoulders, not just his head to make sure he is able to turn efficiently and look for his next fence. Jumpin...

Part 1: David sets up a line of perpendicular fences and has the riders jump through  on an angle with four strides between each. He stresses the importance of letting the horse hunt for the fence and set themselves up behind so they are actively looking for their next fence and responding. The r...

Part 3: David stresses the importance of having a slow head, which he explains to mean being able to feel what's happening and think clearly. The riders have to learn to land and already be thinking about the next fence, or get into trouble and be able to think clearly and plan out of it, even th...

Part 2: David incorporates the exercise into a course. The riders struggle with the mental aspect of the line, and staying sharp enough to make the turns and land each fence already riding for the next. David explains that they need to land and guide the horse onto the line and into frame using t...