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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1688
When your elbows leave your sides your shoulders are even more prone to tension.
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Question # 326: Ellen has a question about her horse becoming barn sour and threatening to rear.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1687
"Contact has to be just that, contact. People think 'oh this horse is very light I have nothing in my hand' – this is wrong because then you have no contact to his hind legs." ~ Jean Bemelmans
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1686
In a good connection, the rider's hands should breathe with the horse's mouth.
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Quin's Blog post # 2: The Ultimate Answer to Riding, the Universe, and Everything
Friends, I'd like to share with you the Ultimate Answer to Riding, the Universe, and Everything, and no, it isn’t 42 -- although it felt like it took that many years for me to figure it out. Until I learned the trick, though, I struggled and struggled and
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1685
Always aim to ride your horse with as long of a neck as possible. Look for the feeling that they are truly seeking the connection. When the neck becomes too short, the horses' backs are essentially "jammed up."
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Video Discussion # 104: What caused this rail down?
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1684
"Most people try to pull the neck down. NO. We want to raise the base of the neck and we don’t need gimmicks – I haven’t used draw reins for sixty years. Getting the horse’s head down is a consequence of active hind legs. When the hind
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1683
If you are working with a very bold jumping youngster, and have plans to take him up the levels, it is a good idea to have a plan to teach him to be economical when jumping into water and off of drops. This means doing something a little different… and
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1682
"If you don’t take into account the fact that the horse is narrower through the shoulders than the croup, and you try to straighten the horse, you will place his outside parallel to the wall, but not his spine. Therefore you will miss the goal of riding him
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1681
"Half my work in canter is in counter canter. I live in counter canter." ~ George Morris
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1680
"Lightness sounds very good, if it is light, but it is better if it is not too light because a horse that is too light in the hand is more difficult to ride than a horse that is a little bit heavy on the hand. Okay we always have