Work in Hand lesson with Lia and Pip from the 2017 Art2Ride Australia Classical Riding Clinic with Karen Loshbaugh.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride demonstrates Work in hand.

Will Faerber from Art2Ride demonstrates work in hand with 19 year old.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride gives a work in hand lesson to Pat.

San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses Yvon’s lesson at the Holland Clinic in May 2016.

Will Faerber continues our series on developing collection. In this session Will works the horse in hand to develop the piaffe.

Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride. I want to give you a simple idea of how you can improve the horse’s contact and acceptance with the bridle.

I have received several emails lately about how people’s horse’s mouths have been ruined and they can’t ride them in bridles any more and have to ride them in hackamores and things like this. So I wanted to share a little secret about how to get your horse to accept the bridle that we use as well as my father, Nuno Olivera and many masters. We use a sugar cube.We want the horse to enjoy the bit, mouth the bridle and get their salivary glands to work. We want to see the horse’s mouth softening as well as a nice foam. I am also a singer and eating these hard candies keeps …

Hi this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and we had a request for some information for work in hand so I am going to try and give you a few points about that today!

This is our new horse Zoolander and if you come and take a close look here, both of my hands are going to be up (as shown in video) as I take the rein contact a little bit from the bit here and the other hand going up here (as shown in video) with the whip in my hand at the same time on this side. The most important thing to remember when you are doing work in hand is you’re wanting the horse to move ahead of you. Just like when you lunge you don’t stand around backwards, you stand to the front so when you …