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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4338
To improve your security over jumps, think about sinking into your ankles as you land.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4337
Think of your brain as a densely wooded area with paths running through it. Whenever you are trying to learn how to do something new, you have to blaze new pathways in your brain.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4336
If you need to use a double bridle to keep your horse in a frame, your work is very incorrect.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4335
Every well ridden corner in the Dressage ring is a suppling exercise, and should be recognized as such.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4334
A rider's hands can only be as good as the arms they belong to.
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Is Your Horse Sore in These Very Common Areas??
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4333
Turn on the forehand is a great tool to improve your connection and to teach your horse to engage the inside hind leg. Used early on in your warm up it will mobilize your horse’s lumbar back and hips, and will give you a chance to improve his response
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4332
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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Do You Know What Skills You and Your Horse Need to Have Before Entering a Novice Level Event?
Thinking about trying your hand at Novice level Eventing? It is always wise to make sure you are very well prepared! Here is a list of skills that you and your horse should be fairly proficient at before you sign up for your first Novice level horse trials:
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4331
Your engaged core is what allows your position to be unaffected by your horse's changes of speed.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4330
"Permeability can only exist when, on the one hand, the thrust and impulsion from the hind legs reach the forehand undiminished, and on the other hand, when the weighting and flexing half-halts fully reach the hind legs. This requires the forehand and hindquarters to be aligned in such
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4329
Don't half halt or make an adjustment in front of a fence unless you need to. So often I see riders that ruin their good canter on the approach by taking back unnecessarily. And the same holds true on the flat…. If you have a good trot or