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Advanced Trot Pole Exercise # 3
Here is a trot pole exercise that will improve your horse's balance and suppleness, while challenging your ability to maintain the quality of your trot through changes of bend.
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Jumping Rideability Exercise # 2 - For Horses & Riders at All Levels
This very basic (and often overlooked) jumping exercise will improve your horse's rideability, as well as the overall harmony between you and your horse when jumping courses.
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An Exercise to Help You Find an Even Pace Over Fences
Here is a simple exercise that will increase your awareness of whether or not you are maintaining an even pace when jumping courses. And it will show you exactly what you need to do to achieve it!
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Advanced Jumping Exercise # 1
This fairly complex jumping exercise is most suitable for Event horses that are at the Training level or above, although it can be modified for more green horses and/or riders. It will test your ability to make accurate turns onto angled lines, while keeping an even jumping pace.
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Learn Your Horse's Natural Tendencies
It is very helpful for a rider to know about each horse's natural tendencies. Only then can they come up with a specific plan for training that will best suit that particular horse. Learn how to evaluate your horse's natural instincts and reactions, and how to make the best use of that information.
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Try This Mental Trick, to Quickly Bring Your Riding to a New Level!
Do you find that you have SO many different things to work on with your riding, that it's hard to keep track of them all?? You correct one issue, move on to the next, & then you find that you have now lost the progress that you made on the first one?? Here's a GREAT trick to help with this issue!
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An Advanced Trot Pole Exercise to Improve Suppleness, Strength, and Rideability
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Nose to the Wall Leg Yield
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Lateral Work as "Medicine" For the Dressage Horse
Riders should use lateral exercises as tools to make improvements in the way the horse is moving and carrying himself. Much like exactly the right medicine, a rider needs to know what specific lateral movement their horse needs. Here are 10 examples of problems and the exercises to help fix them!
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Advanced Trot Pole Exercise # 2
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An Exercise to Improve Your Cross Country (For Riders at Every Level !)
No matter what level you are riding at, one skill you need for safe, balanced cross country jumping is the ability to keep a balanced gallop on undulating terrain. Here is an exercise to show you how well you are able to achieve this, and improve your ability to keep your horse balanced on course!
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How Your Driving Habits Relate to Your Riding Habits
Have you ever wondered how your driving habits might be affecting your riding? Since we must sit in a centered and balanced way with equal awareness over both sides of our body, look into every situation that might develop wrong "muscle memory." Practice these things to improve your position!