Tristan's approach to the horse who is behind the leg, in 9 video lessons, from the groundwork that frees his body to the ride where he finally carries you forward.
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WHO IS THE LAZY HORSE COURSE FOR?
You ask, he delays. You ask louder, he delays more. Spurs, a sharper whip, a fitter you, none of it lasted longer than a week, because none of it changed the thing that is actually holding him back.
Twenty minutes in and your legs are done while he has barely broken a sweat. Every stride is your idea. The moment you stop riding every step, the trot dies underneath you.
In the field he moves like a different animal. The engine is clearly there. What you cannot find is the way to it from the saddle, and you are tired of being told to just kick harder.
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The real problem
With a hot horse everyone can see the tension. With a lazy horse it hides, because it shows up as less movement instead of more. A horse that holds tension in his body closes the front door: the shoulder tightens, the front legs stop reaching, and everything you send forward from behind gets stuck halfway. Kicking harder adds pressure to a body that is already braced against it. That is why every stronger aid bought you a duller horse.
We do not chase energy. We release the tension that is blocking it. First on the ground, with patterns that teach him to let go of the brace and open up his front. Then in the saddle, where the same patterns translate into a shoulder that reaches, front legs he is aware of, and a horse that carries you forward because he finally can.
Your instructor
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 Lazy Horse Course is his answer to the most misread horse in the yard: the one whose tension shows up as no movement at all.
Lesson plan
You do not start by asking for more. You start by finding out where the energy is stuck, and the first lesson shows you exactly that.
Part 01Why "lazy" is almost never the right word.
What is actually happening in a horse that is behind the leg, and why the usual answers made it worse.
Part 02The handbrake comes off before anything else.
Tension release from the saddle, and the troubleshooting for the horses that do not let go at the first try.
Part 03The patterns that open his body.
The groundwork prerequisites and the tension release and groundwork patterns that free the shoulder and the front.
Part 04Translation: the same horse, now with you on top.
Translating the groundwork into the ride: opening up the front, and bringing his focus to his front legs so the reach comes from him.
Part 05Exercises for every ride after this one.
Three exercises that keep him in front of the leg, built into your normal schooling week.
Nine lessons does not mean nine weeks. Most riders feel the first change in the very first tension release session.
Unlock all 9 video lessonsFrequently Asked Questions
That is the exact question the course answers in lesson one. A horse that holds tension shows it as less movement, not more, and releasing that tension is what changes the ride. If the engine shows up in the field, it can show up under saddle.
No. The groundwork prerequisites are part of this course. If you have done the Reduce Tension Course you will recognise the patterns and move faster, but you can start here.
Yes. The Lazy Horse Course is one of the seven courses inside the TRT Advanced Riding 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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For life. There is no time limit and all future updates to the course are included.
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