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Tip/Quote of the Day # 718
When you have a good contact, your horse can feel your thoughts transmitted through the reins.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 717
It should be a big red flag to you if your instructor is the type to say that all jumps should be treated the same. It can be a sign of lack of knowledge or teaching experience in a trainer. Riders should be aware of every question posed by each
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Some Ways to Challenge Your Horse's Ability to Think Quickly (Current freebie!)
To be truly safe on cross country, we need our Event horses to be completely focused on their jobs, and to think and process information quickly. Only then will they be able to accurately read each question on course as it arises, and make smart decisions with their footwork at
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 716
With fresh horses that want to look around and be unfocused, do yourself and your horse a favor, and let them have some free time to relax at the beginning of a workout. Either a short time lunging or free schooling, or simply a 10 to 20 minute walk on
Educational Discussions
Discussion # 125: Let's discuss this great quote from Christopher Bartle!
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 715
A calm, attentive horse begins with a calm, attentive handler.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 714
The more thoroughly you have prepared for a movement or transition, the more you can just allow it to happen, rather than making it happen.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 713
The most energy efficient way for a horse to gallop cross country is to gallop in balance, so that very little adjustments are necessary in front of the fences. If you could gallop in such a way that a fence could drop from the sky and land in front of
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Guest Blog post # 56: "Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full!" by Bill Woods
"Pick the right patterns, execute them correctly and they will school the horse." That was Major Lindgren's message to us back in the day, and a dictum we followed faithfully as we wrote out lesson plans to practice-teach demo riders at the Instructors Seminars. One
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 712
To build anything successfully, you need the right tools. Riding is about building a successful partnership between you and your horse. The tools you need to do that are patience, knowledge, understanding, and feel.
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The S-Turn Jumping Exercise
More demanding than a simple bending line, the S turn exercise tests the ability to maintain balance and rideability while changing direction between jumps - a skill that needs to be perfected to jump a course well! Learn how to do it here!
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 711
“Riders use the spur instead of the calf of the leg. This is wrong. As trainers and judges, we need to encourage putting the rider in front of the leg, NOT the spur.” ~ Christoph Hess