Rider Leg Position

Buck shares the correct postion for your legs and pelvis when riding.

Buck teaches the basic fundamentals of stopping your horse.

Buck describes the position your body should be in when you back your horse.

Buck helps riders to practice the correct body position when transitioning from a stop to a walk.

Buck demonstrates a correct way to dismount your horse by leaning foward and bending your knee.

Buck demonstrates a beneficial stretch for riders.

Buck warns students to avoid bad habits when applying pressure that can cause a horse to become heavy.

Watch as Buck explains the way to build softness into your horse.

Clinic students work on mastering a soft feel for collection with Buck’s instruction.

Buck details the importance of rein management when riding your horse, and addresses some common mistakes.

Buck instructs a student on the value of rewarding his horse with correct timing.

To build lightness in a horse, Buck teaches that you must be good at the timing of your release of pressure.

Buck practices releasing pressure with students.

Buck instructs the students to be sure and give the horse time to think and soak in what he has learned.

Buck teaches the proper hand position to ride centered and develop softness.

Buck explains the correct hand position to help keep your horse centered to develop softness.

Buck's students practice getting their horses soft and light while transitioning from a trot to a walk.

Dressage rider, Betty Staley, explains true collection and how it travels from the nose through the body and to the feet. This video also features clips of Buck riding a collected horse.

Buck explains that all flexion should correspond to proper movement and why lunging with sidelines is counterproductive.

Preventing a blow up

Students practice riding on a loose rein as Buck oversees.

Buck answers a question from a rider about her horse that carries his head too low.

In this video, Buck talks about some common mistakes people make that irritates their horse and causes unnecessary trouble.