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Building Your Own Bridge
• Materials you need
• Where to get the pieces
• Simple & easy steps to put it together
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Setting Up Other Obstacles
• What obstacles you will need
• Where to get the materials
• How to set them up
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Simple Obstacles First
Teaching your donkey to navigate the
• Pylon course
• Barrels in various patterns
• Ground Rails
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Sidepassing and Tight Turns
• Turning on the forehand and on the haunches
• Teaching the sidepass
• Putting it together: Sidepassing over a ground rail, etc.
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Checking the Mail
• Setting up your mailbox obstacle
• Overcoming your donkey's fears of the mailbox
• Checking the mail while riding
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The Wooden Bridge
• Preliminary exercises before facing the bridge
• Introduction to the bridge
• Leading across the bridge
• Riding across the bridge
• Applying to trailer loading
• Adding to the challenge: Dressing up your bridge
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The Gate
• Good manners while leading through the gate
• Riding through a swinging gate
• Riding through a rope gate obstacle
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What next?
• Getting creative
• Show time!
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