One of the MOST important exercises | Teaching the shoulder yield on a green horse

This video will show you the fastest way to gain shoulder control on any horse. It's one of the most valuable and fundamental skills you can teach. So many maneuvers are built on this basic exercise and gaining proper control of the shoulders will often fix most riding issues.

[@GerryCoxHorsemanship]

You my young friend are very talented,, not only in your riding but you have a great smooth delivery and detail in explaining step by step implementation but the importance of hint of response reward! I try to catch your films and clips when i see them and they always make me nod my head in approval. Keep up the good work and spreading the good word!

[@zacharias.horsemanship]

Thanks, Gerry. I appreciate the support!

[@kellywalker3299]

I watched this to try to get an idea what to do with a young quarter horse cross mare that was started really fast. She worries and the guy rushed her and was very impatient and abrupt. Now I’m undoing that in her. Her brain is scrambled. I needed to see this for next step for her retraining.

[@sandrat3690]

I love your explanations! I tried this yesterday and had real shoulder control with a mare that’s always fallen on the right shoulder on a circle. Most important is „no message“! I could literally see how she was thinking about this instead of the arguing before😅 Thank you so much!

[@zacharias.horsemanship]

That's awesome! Thanks for the feedback!

[@laurenw1168]

This is the exact video that I've been looking for for a long time! Thank you for giving such a great explanation!

[@krystelle.lacroix]

Very well explained !!! LOVE all your videos! Thank you for all your great tips!!! 👍🏻

[@zacharias.horsemanship]

Absolutely! Thank you for watching 😁

[@michaelc2509]

Well delivered presentation. To the point and zero unnecessary chatter.

[@zacharias.horsemanship]

Thank you, Michael.👍 Appreciate you watching!

[@jessicasunderland8233]

Love your videos been using them to have a bit of direction in our training and fix some of our issues

[@colleendonahuehorsestransf6674]

Very helpful content. Thanks for the great upload!

[@zacharias.horsemanship]

Absolutely! Thanks for watching!

[@Liz-gc6gn]

Do you do clinics? I love your channel

[@zacharias.horsemanship]

We do on occasion. Where are you located? Thanks for watching and supporting our channel! 😊

[@taylerbryant9355]

Restarting a 5 year old. This is perfect!

[@meganpahl3612]

Hello and thank you for your video. I have a question that I pray you take the time ton answer. I have an 11 year old arab mare and while she is broke to ride, has no training nor conditioning. However, what I have shown her, she is picking up in a day or less. My question is VITAL so I am counting on your advice here. Ok, well, she has some atrophe on the left shoulder and extremely built up muscles on the opposite side. She shows minimal weakness on the smaller side but due to the lack of proper working with her, wrong exercises ect, she needs to really work the entire front Left. Can you please tell me some videos you may have or even step by step instructions to how I can properly show her these cues you have shown here? I need to see, or read lol, what I can do to rebuild the muscle on this side so she can be a strong ride and even happier horse. Like I said before she is incredibly intelligent. I know she will obey what I show her but I want to specifically focus on building this shoulder back up. HELP!!!

[@ashleymarie8169]

Love your content! What type of mouthpiece do you prefer for your green horses? Single or double jointed?

[@zacharias.horsemanship]

Thanks, Ashley! I've always used single jointed snaffles simply because that's always worked well for me. But I'm not opposed to branching out if I felt something else would suit the horse better.

[@carriepeters4177]

I usually run into the horse moving their entire body off my leg rather than isolating the shoulder . . . how do you approach this on a green horse where you don't have the ability to use your outside leg to block the hip? Assuming my outside rein is in contact, my inside leg is by the girth.

[@zacharias.horsemanship]

So, I don't worry about what the hip is doing at this stage. I only release when the shoulder moves over. If the horse's whole body is moving over, that usually happens when someone is trying too hard to make the horse move, instead of setting the horse up, pushing through with the leg and letting him find it. Or you possibly don't have enough forward momentum. I would just ignore the hip and really focus in on that soft yield in the shoulder. If you do this, the rest will fix itself. 👍

[@HorseyJJ]

Why no helmet

[@pamelaforrest1622]

super green - hasn't a clue how to back and acts like the bit is new to her - beyond that, she is a decent mover and seems to be a fast learner - best of luck to you both

[@DeNilsPipe]

Hey Jacqueline, thank you for all the knowledge you are sharing with us! I'm 32 years old, trying to learn Western riding since I'm 30. I live in Germany, and over here, it's not that easy to find good teachers. I'm lucky to have found one, but your shared experiences were and still are very helpful to become more confident and used to all that stuff. Again: thanks a lot! I wish you all the best and stay safe and healthy! God bless ya! Nils :-) (I started following you on Instagram today. Maybe you'ld like to follow back? Would be a pleasure!)

[@zacharias.horsemanship]

Thanks so much for watching and following along! I appreciate your kind words. I'm not often on instagram, but if I'm over there, I'll try to find you. God bless!