Meet trainer and NCCA ambassador Magen Warlick as she introduces you to the National Cowboy Challenge Association. Learn about the competitions, levels, general rules and how to get started!

Magen covers the scoring and strategies for competition.

Magen demonstrates her process for introducing a horse to obstacles in a way that builds confidence and curiosity. She covers past mistakes and why she prefers her current training method.

Magen covers flow obstacles and how to approach training your horse to execute them. This category of obstacles includes ground poles, bridges, weaves, and curtains. In this session she works on bridges and ground poles.

Magen covers skill obstacles--those that require the rider to execute the obstacle. These can include things like roping, log drag, mailbox or backing through things. The horse is not solely responsible for the obstacle. In this session Magen shows the mailbox, daisy chain barrels, back through a...

In this session Magen discusses maneuvers that aren't associated with a specific obstacles but require your horse to be broke enough to accomplish during the pattern. These include stops, spins, lead changes and backing.

Once you have a confident horse with obstacles and maneuvers, you can start to look for places to add speed. Magen talks about places where you can start adding speed in a course and how to do it effectively.

Magen creates a practice course to go through with various obstacles and maneuvers and then reviews and critiques how her horse did and what she would do to train and improve those skill sin the future.