Part 01Restore the mobility
The legs have to be able to move before forward is a fair question.
- Introduction
- Mobility of the front legs and the hind legs
- Combining the two
STOPPING AND BLOCKING COURSE
By Tristan Tucker
More "whoa" than "go"? Start here. So forward becomes his idea again.
Stalling, planting, blocking or threatening to go up is a horse shutting the door on rising tension. Twelve video lessons with a safe method that starts from the ground and solves it at the source.
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- ✓Start safely from the ground
- ✓Restore front and hind-leg mobility
- ✓A calm answer to rearing threats
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Who is this course for?
He is not being stubborn. He is shutting the door.
The horse that plants
Halfway down the long side, at the gate, at the same corner every day. Legs in concrete, and everything you add, leg, voice, whip, adds nothing but sweat. You have learned to dread the spot where it happens.
The horse that threatens to go up
The stop is becoming a rear in slow motion: weight back, front end light. You know pushing harder is the wrong answer, but nobody has shown you the right one, and it is starting to feel unsafe.
The ride that shrinks
You avoid the far end. Then the diagonal. Then the hack. Every stop that wins teaches him the next one, and your riding world is quietly getting smaller.
Sound familiar?
- He stops at the same places, every ride.
- Leg on means nothing, or means backwards.
- He blocks at the gate, or refuses to leave the others.
- You feel the front end get light when you insist.
- A stronger bit or spurs made it worse, or made it dangerous.
- Some days he never stops at all, and you cannot find the pattern.
- You want a plan that does not depend on winning a fight.
"You do not need a rearing horse for this course. The mobility work in the first half improves every horse's forward, including the ones that merely hesitate."
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The real problem
He isn't reacting to the object. He's reacting to his own body.
A horse that stops is a horse whose tension has risen past what his body can move through. Going forward would mean carrying that tension into the very thing that is causing it, so he closes the door instead: he stalls, he plants, he blocks, and if the pressure keeps coming, up is the only direction left. The stop is not defiance. It is a body that cannot go forward and honest enough to say so.
What the TRT Method does differently
We reopen the door from the ground, where it is safe. First the mobility of his front and hind legs, then the assessment that shows you exactly where the block sits, then walk, trot and canter, and only then the saddle, where you learn to manage energy going out and energy coming in. He goes forward again because he can, not because he lost.
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 Stopping and Blocking Course is Tristan's answer to the horses everyone else meets with a stronger aid, and the riders who knew there had to be another way.
Lesson plan
From the ground up, in the true sense.
The first sessions happen with your feet on the ground. That is what makes this method safe for both of you.
Part 01
Part 02Assess and build
See where the block sits, then build through the gaits.
- Assessment on the circle
- From walk to trot, and canter
- Using the bridle and the shoulder yield
Part 03Into the saddle
The conversation, and the energy in both directions.
- Free conversation
- Under the saddle: energy going out
- Under the saddle: energy going in
Twelve lessons, and the difficult horse does the first half of them without a rider on his back.
Unlock all 12 video lessonsFrequently Asked Questions
Before you decide.
The method exists precisely because pushing a stopping horse forward is not safe. You start on the ground, and you only move to ridden work when the groundwork says he is ready. If a rear has ever put you on the floor, do the ground half with a professional nearby.
No. Lungeing moves his feet; it does not change what stopped them. The mobility work targets the specific pattern a blocking horse holds in his body, and the assessment shows you the difference within one session.
Yes. The Stopping and Blocking Course is one of the 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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- Restore the mobility
- Assess and build
- Into the saddle
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- ✓Mounting Issues Course, 9 lessons
- ✓Lateral Movements Course, 6 lessons
- ✓Off The Horse Riding Course, 22 lessons
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