Dakota Kirchenschlager practices every day for what each individual horse needs. In this session, Kirchenschlager heads and heels on a 5-year-old futurity horse, sometimes breakawaying, sometimes circling the steer and sometimes making runs to manage the horse throughout the practice.

Dakota Kirchenschlager wants his horses to like their jobs, and in his training program, he emphasizes using cattle and setups to accomplish that. His training is intentional and developed from years of trial and error, and in this series, we get an inside look into what works for the ARHFA World...

Brad Lund & Dakota Kirchenschlager talk through their collection of working bridles, describing the differences between shank bits, solid bits, chain bits and ports. They also talk about preferences in headgear and tie-downs.

Dakota Kirchenschlager and Brad Lund talk ropers through an entire practice session on green horses, including addressing tightness in a heel horse and overbridling in an ex-reiner on the head side. 

On this Metallic Cat mare, Dakota Kirchenschlager addresses her tendency to get strung out through the corner and shows how keeping her framed up can help her develop a better stop.

Dakota Kirchenschlager built his career on riding heel horses with BIG stops. In this full practice session on a 4-year-old Once In A Blue Boon gelding, Kirchenschlager ropes a pen of steers to keep his horse's front feet peddling, smoothing out the horse's stop.

Horseman Brad Lund and Dakota Kirchenschlager learned the wisdom of "The Rule of Threes" from some legendary horsemen. They talk about their three-day-at-a-time approach to training and how they implement it. 

ARHFA World Champion Dakota Kirchenschlager rides horses in his own program as well as outside horses, and in this video Kirchenschlager is breakawaying on a 4-year-old head-horse prospect with a lot of run and a lot of try. He talks through how to manage that in a full practice session.

In this quick tip, Dakota Kirchenschlager and Brad Lund describe how they work horses in the box to use minimal pressure for maximum results in the corner. 

Dakota Kirchenschlager leaves dozens of horses tied to the fence all around his arena, with plenty tied right along the right fence, too. His method allows him to desensitize those horses while testing the attention span of the ones he's riding. 

Brad Lund and Dakota Kirchenschlager both ride "over-achieving" young horses who need their intensity dialed back down, be it in the run or in the box. In this video, they talk through their approach to an entire practice session, complete with live runs and box work.