Part 01To keep in mind
Who this is for, and what comes first.
- When is this course for you
- The prerequisites
- Being kind to others on the trail
HACKING COURSE
By Tristan Tucker
Leave the arena. Keep the relaxation. So the hack becomes the best part of his week.
Thirty-eight video lessons on riding out with a relaxed horse: the preparation at home, leaving the yard, spooky objects, traffic, the excitement of heading home, and trailering to new places.
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Who is this course for?
Everything you built in the arena should hold up past the gate.
The rider who quietly stopped hacking
One bad experience, then another, and now the hack is something other people do. You tell yourself the arena is enough, but you miss it, and he could use the variety more than anyone.
The horse that changes at the gate
In the arena he is rideable. Ten metres past the yard he grows a hand taller: jigging, scanning, spooking at things he walks past every day. The way home is worse than the way out.
The combination that wants to go places
You would love to box up and ride somewhere new, the beach, the woods, a friend's yard. But a new location adds a trailer ride and a strange environment on top of everything else, and nobody ever showed you the routine.
Sound familiar?
- You plan rides out around traffic, weather and which horses come along.
- He walks out fine and jigs the entire way home.
- A plastic bag in the hedge undoes twenty minutes of good work.
- Cyclists, dogs or a tractor mean dismounting, or praying.
- He plants halfway and no amount of leg changes his mind.
- Alone he will not leave the yard at all.
- You ride the whole hack braced for the moment something happens.
"You do not need a hacking problem for this course. For a horse that already rides out well, this is how the hack becomes training instead of just exercise."
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The real problem
He isn't reacting to the object. He's reacting to his own body.
Outside, everything that holds a tense horse together disappears: the fences, the routine, the known corners. What is left is his body, with more tension in it than the arena version of him ever shows, and no pattern for what to do with it. The spook at the bag, the jig on the way home, the stop at the gate: it is all the same tension finding the exits it knows.
What the TRT Method does differently
The hack is trained before it happens. At home he learns the patterns, the pilot check and the final simulation, so the questions the forest will ask him have all been asked before, in doses he could handle. Then you build it up outside: gates, spooky objects, traffic, quiet moments used well. By the time you trailer him somewhere new, the routine travels with him.
Your instructor
Meet Tristan Tucker.
Tristan spent years working with horses at the top of the sport, and with the horses that were not coping with it. What he kept finding was the same thing: the behaviour everyone was trying to train away was a body that had never learned how to come back down.
The TRT Method came out of that, and it is now used by more than 122,000 riders in over 90 countries.
The Hacking Course is where all of Tristan's arena work proves itself, because a relaxed horse in the forest is the whole point of a relaxed horse in the arena.
Lesson plan
From the yard to the forest, one step ahead of him.
The first lessons happen at home, in the arena you already have. Outside starts when you are both ready for it.
Part 01Part 02Preparations
The hack is won at home.
- Preparing for a safe hack out
- The right gear
- Preparing for a scary environment
Part 03In the saddle
The final checks before the gate.
- Warming up and the pilot check
- The final simulation
- Going outside, and getting on outside
Part 04Into the forest
Fourteen real situations, each with a plan.
- Spooky objects, stops and threats he sees or hears
- Traffic, cyclists, other animals, narrow spaces and gates
- The excitement of heading home, and using the quiet moments
Part 05Trailering to a new location
The whole routine, door to door.
- Preparations and the trailer ride
- Finding rest, saddling and bridling at a new place
- Stepping away from the trailer, and getting on
Part 06Troubleshooting
For the two classics.
- He does not want to leave the stable, or rushes home
- He stops
- When to go back a step
Thirty-eight lessons, and most of them are one specific situation you will recognise instantly. You watch what you need, when you need it.
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Before you decide.
At home, in the arena, which is where the whole first half of the course happens. You only go outside when the preparation says you are both ready, and the build-up outside starts small.
Because the arena holds him together and the outside world does not. The course trains the relaxation to come from his own body instead of from the fences, which is why it holds up past the gate.
Yes. The Hacking Course is included with the TRT Advanced Riding Course as its bonus course. If you own that, the Tristan Tucker Collection or a TRT membership, you already have every lesson on this page.
No. You pay once and keep lifetime access, including all future updates.
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- To keep in mind
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