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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.

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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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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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

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4328

Some people misunderstand the term "on the forehand", which refers to the horse's shoulders being down, regardless of where his head and neck are positioned.

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 4327

Be careful not to sit the trot too early on in a ride. Doing so before the horse is fully warmed up and truly moving through his topline can often be detrimental, as the horse is more likely to stay stiff and tight in his back.

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