Build the Pattern: Reining Fundamentals to Finished Horse
This “Build the Pattern” video series with Ryan Rushing is your complete guide to developing a finished reining horse, starting with foundational body control and progressing through each maneuver with purpose and precision. Designed to pair with a downloadable workbook, each video walks you through essential skills like shoulder control, turnaround technique, lead changes, and pattern execution—layering in reflection questions to deepen your understanding and improve retention.
Across four weeks of structured lessons, Ryan shares his approach to shaping responsive, confident horses while offering coaching tips for riders at every level. Bonus videos cover topics like confidence-building, prospect selection, nutrition, and even insights from the judge’s perspective.
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Build the Pattern: Reining Fundamentals to Finished Horse Workbook
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This “Build the Pattern” workbook with Ryan Rushing is your complete guide to developing a finished reining horse, starting with foundational body control and progressing through each maneuver with purpose and precision. Use alongside the videos in the "Build the Pattern: Reining Fundamentals to ...
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The Goal Of This Series
Ryan Rushing sits down to explain the purpose of this series and how it can help reiners improve their skills and confidence.
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Dialing In Hip and Back Control
Ryan Rushing continues to work on body control and demonstrates how to gain hip and back control.
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Mastering Shoulder Control
Ryan Rushing explains how to apply body control from the head to the hind end while riding, and begins demonstrating how to establish shoulder control.
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Perfecting the Sidepass
The next piece to body control is successfully side-passing. Ryan Rushing shows how to control the shoulder along with the rib cage and hip in the sidepass.
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Circles with One Hand: Staying Balanced
Ryan Rushing demonstrates how to work through circles one-handed on a young reining horse.
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Introducing the Rollback
Ryan Rushing explains how he teaches his young horses to do a rollback.
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Riding One-Handed Through Maneuvers
Ryan Rushing demonstrates how to go from two hands to one hand during maneuvers.
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The Rundown to the Perfect Stop
Ryan Rushing explains how the rundown is the most important part of the stop. He demonstrates how the horse should feel in this maneuver and how to teach that effectively.
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Starting Smooth Lead Changes
Ryan Rushing shows us how to introduce lead changes to a younger horse after working on body control.
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Turnaround Fundamentals
After working on body control, Ryan Rushing walks us through the basics of the turnaround and explains how body control plays a role in this maneuver.
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Building a Powerful Stop
Ryan Rushing introduces the basic reining maneuver—the stop. He demonstrates how to introduce this maneuver to a young horse.
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Total Circle Control
Ryan Rushing explains how he wants his horse to lope off with balance and softness, highlighting how body control creates better shape and responsiveness in the circle.
