Practical Guide to Balanced Stops

by Patrick Wyse                                       

Whenever Patrick Wyse has a discussion with trainers about stops, the focus is always the big slide and the great horse that could do it. His experience teaching thousands of students has proven that what people need is the BALANCED STOP. It works on any horse, on any ground, but does not create a habit in either horse or rider that will have a negative effect if the rider ever wishes to develop a reining horse.

Slow motion removes any doubt about how horses actually stop, whether it’s National

Finals Calf Roping horses, the top reiners of today or students learning how to improve 

their stops.

Learn how slide plates work and why the ground can have an overwhelming effect on the mechanics of the stop. This video teaches the techniques to gradually build great BALANCED STOPS.

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