Enhance your ability to communicate effectively with your horse.

Learn skills and drills to gain trust and respect from your horse.

Start young horses right with tools that make riding safer and more enjoyable.

From the Ground Up Course Overview

This course is for horse owners and trainers... Gain more tools to enhance the relationship with your horse, solve training & handling issues, and create a willing partner through trust and respect. Learn more about leading, backing up, sending, leading with foot ropes, desensitization and bonus videos that will have your farrier thanking you! 

Course Curriculum

8 Chapters · 23 Lessons

  1. 1
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      Start Here: Course Guide and Information

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      Course Guide Download

  2. 2
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      Bill Oliver Background and Biography

  3. 3
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      Introduction to the Course

  4. 4
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      Tools of the Trade - What Bill uses and recommends for Groundwork

  5. 5
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      Groundwork: Leading your Horse: Coming to Pressure

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      Groundwork: Backing Up

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      Groundwork: Flex Neck Left and Right

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      Groundwork: Sending - Bend Neck, Clear Ribs, and Disengage the Hindquarters

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      Groundwork: Desensitization and Familiarization

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      Advanced Groundwork: Sending and Changing Directions - Moving the Front End

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      Advanced Groundwork: Moving the Front End without moving out

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      Advanced Groundwork: Send around you with rate - Walk, Trot, and Lope

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      Advanced Groundwork: Sidepass

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      Advanced Groundwork: Foot Ropes and Leading by Feet

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      Advanced Groundwork: Obstacles - Sending through and over

  7. 7
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      Groundwork: Course Conclusion - The Return & What's Next

  8. 8
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      Trouble Trailer Loading

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      Desensitize out of the round pen

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      What to do with a Horse that Kicks

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      What to do with a Horse that Rears Up

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      So you started your colt, now what?

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      Working with Feet and the Wood Block

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