Teach your horse to be patient and to listen to you when working the flag.

A noseband only works when it's adjusted correctly. Brad Barkemeyer explains proper noseband fit.

Use forward motion to improve lope departures in Western riding horses. Follow professional horseman Brad Barkemeyer's advice to improve your horse's training.

You leg position matters more than you might realize. Brad Barkemeyer explains why.

Introduce new tack to your finished Western riding horse with Brad Barkemeyer's advice. Transitioning your cowhorse to 2rein with Brad will advance your horsemanship.

What to do when your horse won't go forward? Brad Barkemeyer has key advice.

Brad Barkemeyer offers his best grooming tips and tricks. Grooming your horse improves horsemanship by ensuring your horse is healthy and ready to ride.

A solid stop comes from good foundation training. Here are Brad Barkemeyer's tips to establish a stop with your Western riding horse.

Any Western discipline can use this exercise to counter bend your horse. Improve your horsemanship to supple your horse with Brad Barkemeyer.

Choose the right cinch for the job and adjust it properly with Brad Barkemeyer's advice.

Brad Barkemeyer explains how to fix frustrating buddy and barnsour behavior.

NRCHA and AQHA horseman Brad Barkemeyer talks about how to clip a horse for a horse show or horse sale.

Be ready in the saddle for anything with Brad Barkemeyer's tips for using an athletic riding position.

Learn about the tradition of the two rein and how the setup functions for the working cow horse event.

Brad Barkemeyer goes through a reining pattern with a 4yearold horse he has in training and evaluates his skills.

Brad Barkemeyer evaluates a 4yearold horse he has in training to see what discipline will fit him best and then goes over what he looks for when he's warming up.

Brad Barkemeyer gives a lesson to a nonpro rider who has experience showing bridle horses in cow horse events. Now she has a young horse and is learning how to ride twohanded and support her green horse.

Brad Barkemeyer goes through a reining pattern with his young horse to see where he's at in his training career.

Once you can stop your horse in a straight line at the walk, trot, and lope, you can use this fence drill to help your horse stop and engage his hindquarters.

Brad Barkemeyer was starting to work on a fence drill to help the sliding stop when he realized his horse wasn't staying soft in his hand. Instead of doing his original drill he went back to the basics at the lope and worked on softening his horse up before moving on to the next step.

In the last step of this exercise, Brad Barkemeyer works his horse at the lope and starts to introduce him to the fundamentals of the sliding stop.

Once your horse understands how to stop at a walk, it's time to increase the speed and test out your skills at the trot.

In events like cow horse and reining, a horse needs to be able to do a sliding stop. Brad Barkemeyer shows you the beginning stages to teaching a horse how to stop.

Brad Barkemeyer works a young horse and demonstrates how he starts introducing a horse to a neck rein.