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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2041

"When you piaffe, you should be sitting over your knee, not sitting on your backside." ~ Carl Hester

Tip/Quote of the Day # 2040

The better the rider's seat, the more easily the horse can understand the rider's aids. So make working on developing and maintaining an independent seat a top priority!

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2039

"Sometimes doing the small things that others think is like watching paint dry, like taking the time to warm up at the walk, will give you a better foundation in which to improve upon your trot & canter work." ~ Joan Dunlap

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2037

Varying the degree of your half pass can improve your horse’s suppleness from all angles, as well as increasing his responsiveness to your aids within the movement. In other words, while going in half pass across the diagonal, half halt, and do a few strides with a steeper angle

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2036

To achieve the lovely feeling of jumping "right out of your stride", you have to have the right canter for each situation. If you don't know what kind of canter you need for a particular jump… or are unable to create it exactly when you need

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2035

Ride in counter flexion to correct over bending, on circles AND on straight lines.

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2034

"Horsemanship is incorrect unless it displays what the horse naturally offers through his intrinsic beauty and energy." ~ Charles de Kunffy

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2033

"Make the horse an offer, by taking hands forward (especially inside) - offer to make neck longer." ~ Reiner Klimke

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2032

"There is no point in asking for connection until responsiveness from the leg has been achieved." ~ Laura Graves

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2031

Riders have to be in self carriage before their horses can be in self carriage.

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2030

"Riders who lean back are driving the horse down in front. If they sit too strong, behind the vertical, then they are pushing the horse down, through and into the hand." ~ Carl Hester

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2029

"The absence of a correction is not a reward to a horse. The only thing that is a reward is ‘good girl’ or a pat on the neck or giving them a sugar. You can’t train a seal without fish." ~ Robert Dover

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