TEACHING MY BROTHER HOW TO RIDE A HORSE! Instructor for the day!

Hi guys, I'm Harlow and this is Popcorn. Welcome back to our YouTube channel and in today's video I'm going to be having a lesson with my trainer Ellie McCarthy and then after that my brother Harlan is going to be riding Popcorn and you might have seen Harlan ride Popcorn a couple times but today Harlan is going to have pretty much full control of Popcorn. The only control that I'm going to have is the lunge line so this is going to be very interesting. So Harlan is actually five years old and he's only ever sat on Popcorn twice but today I am Instructor Harlow and let's see how good I am at teaching children how to ride. Also at the end we're going to be seeing a baby foal. I haven't seen him yet and I've heard that he's absolutely adorable. I've never actually seen a foal so this is my first like ever time actually seeing a foal in real life so okay Popcorn let's start my lesson. I've finished my lesson I think it's time for you to hop on Popcorn. I want to do my lesson now. Yeah and I'm your teacher. I've done their stirrups as short as they can possibly go so I'm going to hope that they stay that oh wait we're not getting on like that right first of all okay right Harlan first of all we need to put this on Popcorn. Can you guess what this is called? It's called a lunge line. Can you say that? Yeah it's one two three four five seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen and up to fourteen. okay okay so first of all Harlan we need to put your hat on so you've got your nice hat is that on properly yeah and then let's do that up and let's get your body protector oh don't I'm gonna hold that you need to put it down don't know what we're going to do now now you're going to do you're going to put this on like it's a jacket okay so come over here no other way other way other way okay so put that arm in then the other arm arm up chin up okay so right Harlan what I need what I want you to do is like squeeze get it by the armpits there and just squeeze it in okay and then we'll close that wait wait wait wait wait right Harlan do you want to get on the steps I'm not sure about this it's fine it's my first day standing wait wait just oh he just whacked my hand right now you get on wait wait walk on okay wait Harlan wait there wait there right now you get on and then swing the other leg yep you got it okay so those stirrups are a little bit too long standing I don't want to go fast we're not going to go fast right Harlan can you put your leg there I'll just hold your leg Harlan you're not gonna fall you're gonna get sand all on my new saddle pads don't right now just leave your leg there and don't get sand on my new pad Harlan lift your leg up the first thing that I'm going to teach you in this lesson is to never hold your reins like this because you have no control whatsoever it looks like you're just wiggling your hands around okay so can you hold your hands like this thumbs up to the sky oh no don't lean forward sit up sit up and then gather your reins up a little bit and then do it around there don't don't lean forward don't lean forward yeah but you need to be like that and then thumbs on top no don't do that yeah thumbs up like this Harlan look no stop thumbs up like this no with the reins you hold the reins with your thumbs up how was that thumbs up they need to be directly up thumbs up to the no this is painful already and Harlan all you need to look at me don't look out the window do this can you do that okay your hair is fine okay right hold the reins how I've told you to hold them I mean you can't know how is that holding you're doing it like this you need to do it like this Harlan so hold the reins there and do it like that we actually got there in the end okay okay there we go and stand how are you feeling right now Harlan good good now don't lean forward okay sit up a little bit more don't get distracted you've always got to be focused on what popcorn is doing because imagine if he just bucked you wouldn't know it and you might fall off so always look at what popcorn's doing if you've got any questions my name is Miss White okay right now you're quite far away from me aren't you now Harlan with your hand that's closest to the wall steer him out a little bit no no that way okay so hold them how I've told you to hold them hold them how I've told you to hold them gather your reins up a little bit more because look it's all loose here what is this is this a washing line then make it tighter make it tight so you can just it's still washing line I hope I don't have to come around on that side and see there's a washing line we'll see about that hmm what's this it's a washing line it's a washing line why are you holding it with a fist like this it's thumbs on top okay washing line washing line over here washing line gather your reins okay right open up your hands and then hold your reins there and there right now hold your reins where my hand is where how is that where my hand is my hand is here so hold my hand just where my thumb is no don't lean forward sit up up kick him a little bit no that's not kicking with a lot of help from me keep him away from me you can't come with me you see this rope here don't let it touch the floor okay keep it nice and up no do you have any questions miss white now try stand up try stand up try stand up go up down up down up was that fun no this is called an active walk see can you see the popcorn's head's going like that no that means he's exercising and that you're riding him properly right now we're going to ask popcorn to trot on again it's fine harlan he's not going to do anything you okay and we're back to an active walk and back to a stand you can still walk when i've got an itch halfway through gallop do i itch it no do you want to try again oh that's not the attitude trust on we're only going to do a slow trot this time okay this is the slowest popcorn's trot can go okay it's quite bouncy isn't it you're not gonna be sick it's fine you're doing really well okay you're doing really good okay and walk yeah and stand pull back on oh okay now what we're gonna do is i'm gonna run with you okay keep him going keep no you're not right now we're gonna go all the way to the end and then do one circle then we're gonna finish there okay and walk oh popcorn you do really well oh wait wait wait wait whoa you're doing it completely wrong get back on get back on properly take both feet out the stirrups swing your leg over you got it now popcorn is just gonna do his own thing okay he's probably gonna walk out the arena and take himself into the state harlan don't you ever drop your body protector on the sand unless someone's dropped because if you dropped it a horse could stand on it and break it that was quite successful i had a really good lesson i think harlan did as well yes oh thank you for the kisses i'm quite impressed that he didn't fall off it's my new saddle pad oh oh popcorn oh popcorn you're a sweaty boy oh you can just stay there with no head color on popcorn you're fine i absolutely love popcorn wearing the bandages because he just looks so like nice and posh in them but the problem is with them is sometimes when we buy them they're too long so they end up having to be really really thick we could cut them but we haven't got round to doing that yes yeah it's a bandage soft fluffy cozy bandage it's miss white but anyways you need to put popcorn stuff away there and walk with it no other way this way now into his stable i'm gonna turn this way he's not gonna do anything do i do right you unbuckle his head collar okay you just do this right harlan do you want to give him his dinner okay yeah you just pop him in his in his state oh in his in his stable oh should we go see if his water's if he's got enough water in his bucket right should we refill that then no we're going to put some more water into it picking up the poo harlan do you want to have a go so just push it there get all the poo in that's quite a lot of shavings oh harlan that's loads of shavings look there's barely any poo in there it's all shavings let's empty it all back out again because you filled up the whole thing with shavings okay we're allowed a couple shavings in there but we don't we don't want all the shavings in there harlan can i have the brush back now yeah just put park it over there okay harlan come on in here there is i want to see your little baby phone oh he's hiding behind his mummy i see his little legs but i can't see him yeah we're gonna go from the outside because little mister doesn't want to come out because he's hiding behind his mummy oh my gosh he's the cutest oh my gosh he is so cute baby phone is he cute yeah i can't see it because of the sunshine he's gone back round oh where's he gone now mommy's right here he's so cute yes and you're cute as well there's mommy's camera mommy no don't do that i gotta stroke him i wanna stroke him nothing look at him he doesn't have any teeth yet oh he's excited mommy i can see your baby phone harlan he hasn't got a name what would you name him oh maybe nazi nazi yeah nazi come on oh he's so cute look at his little tail nazi don't do that isn't it is isn't it is that what we i'm gonna call uh the big one snitzy and the small one's nutsy nitsy and nutsy you're playing with your mommy's tail he's a daddy no this is his mummy i don't think they're gonna be calling him nazi nazi nazi hermione galaxy i think we should call him galaxy because it's like food it's like chocolate goes with popcorn he look he's got a fat tummy can't be the baby is inside him where's nazi gonna come he's not called nazi the baby will be galaxy and the mummy will be nazi i think not the mummy's not gonna be nazi the mummy's gonna be screwy what is the mummy gonna be called screwy harlan no the mummy is not going to be called any names so guys that is it for today's video i really hope that you enjoyed it and i definitely did as well meeting this cute little foal was it was absolutely heart melting he is absolutely the cutest gosh it has been a very very busy day today i've been to school i've been an instructor i've been a dressage rider i've had a lesson i've met a brand new baby foal i've mucked up popcorn i've refilled popcorn's water bottle well not water bottle but a water bucket um i've put my tack away and yes also the next video that will definitely be coming up is an organization vlog because if you have seen the state of my tack locker and my um rug um my rug shelves they are in i don't think they could get any messier if i even tried so that's definitely going to be one of the next videos because yeah i don't i don't i don't even want to look at it at the moment it looks so messy so that is it guys don't forget to check out my instagram and my tiktok i'll leave a link down in the description below and yeah i'll see you next time bye right harlan i think we should leave the little foal in peace