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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2028

It is a good idea to ask yourself regularly throughout your rides…. "Am I working too hard here?" If you are, your aids are probably WAY too strong. Go back a step, and work on more finesse.

Tip/Quote of the Day # 2027

"What we want to start creating in these horses is an engine that is always running, where we don’t shift gears until we want to. It’s like revving your RPMs and waiting a moment before you shift up into that higher gear. But if you don’t

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2026

"Every downward transition perfects the half halt. You don’t have to have a driving leg for the downward transition, you need a sustaining leg." ~ George Morris

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2025

"I’m not sure if it is chicken or egg, but the riders who sit in the middle of the movement, in the middle of their horse are the ones with the self-carriage." ~ Chris Hector

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2024

Frequent quality transitions are the best way to confirm that your horse is listening equally to both the driving aids and the restraining aids.

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2023

"The position and length of the horse’s neck, through its many anatomical interconnections with the trunk, has a direct biomechanical effect on the back. If the head is placed unnaturally deep or the neck is unnaturally shortened it will inevitably lead to movement faults and eventual health problems.

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2022

"Feel it in your hands, fix it with your leg." ~ Annette Gaynes

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2021

You can't balance or collect energy that you don't have. Forward first!

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2020

Every horse you ride can tell pretty quickly if you genuinely like them or not. And it makes a difference.

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2019

"Self carriage is really easy to see. The best thing you can do for self-carriage is the give and re-take of the reins. It is amazing how you forget to do that when you ride on your own." ~ Carl Hester

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2018

"Let the neck fall down, don’t pull it down, create a situation in which the horse wants to let go his body and relax his neck." ~ Johan Hamminga

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2017

"I'm very visual. I also am good at making myself into a pretzel. Last night I thought of how a skier in slalom changes direction with subtle motion, otherwise they'll bite it. With that subtlety, my mare easily floated back and forth in the zig

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