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Guest Blog Post # 39: "Fear" by Shanyn Fiske
I’ve been thinking lately about fear – both the long-range, abstract kind (I am being a bad parent and therefore my child will grow up to become a social abomination) and the concrete, immediate kind (my horse will refuse to jump that giant brush and I will crash into
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Photo # 58: This is Amy again!
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Question # 222: Last year I restarted a TB filly who had come off the track in December and was let down until we brought her home in May. She was always one to get tense and stiff the moment she didn't understand something...
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Photo # 57: This is Amy!
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Jocelyn's Blog Post # 2
Different Horse, Different Warm-up For six years, I primarily evented the same horse. Over those years, I honed his warm up routine. He did well with a day off the day before an event, particularly if we trailered in the night before. Dressage warm-up was a light hand
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Guest Blog Post # 38: "Tammy, Tell Me 'Through'" by Bill Woods
Tammy, Tell Me “Through” Today’s topic makes some assumptions. For this to be an address-able issue, you have to be at the stage where your horse goes on a steady contact established between your pushing aids and your receiving, elastic elbows. You must be able to have created
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What To Do When You Are Stuck in a Rut With Your Riding (Current Freebie!)
It happens to most riders at some point in their riding life... you feel like you've been happily progressing steadily over the years, and then you hit a rut. Nothing seems to be improving, and you feel like you just keep working on the same thing every day
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Question # 221: Often if I ask for more forward, I get no response, OR, I get no response until I go to the whip and then I get 'head up, back drop, scoot'. What do you recommend I do? (Anonymous)
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Jocelyn's Blog Post # 1: Breaking the Law: Every Action Does Not Need to Have an Equal and Opposite Reaction
When I taught, managing large classes was not always my strongest suite. The class would get loud, rowdy, and I would get frustrated. My knee jerk reaction was to use a louder, angry voice, subconsciously trying to match the energy level of the classroom. Let me tell you how ineffective
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