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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1317
"Riders who are successful are ready for things that are not what they have planned for. They're thinking, on their toes, and reacting. They are ready for trouble." ~ Lucinda Green
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1316
"The horse’s posture, his strength, and his suppleness, all influence very much the sensations that the bit creates in him." ~ Dupaty de Clam
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1315
"Don't take the tempo down without revving the engine." ~ Chris Bartle
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1314
The more often you give the reins, the softer your horse will be… both in the mouth and in the body.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1313
Riding with shorter stirrups will stretch out your leg and improve your shock absorbers.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1312
It can be a good exercise in awareness to exaggerate both extremes of an aspect of your position, such as leaning all the way to the left and then all the way to the right. Whichever way feels easier or less awkward for you might indicate that you tend to
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1311
The more you look where you are going when jumping, the more likely your horse will be to land from his fences on the correct lead.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1310
From Facebook fan Mary Apfel-Vandeyacht ~ "Riding is a lot like driving a manual transmission... You may be able to make it go (when learning how to ride), but you're going to break it and look like a schmuck unless you learn right."
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1309
Even if the rider has all of their body parts generally in the right place, they will feel out of balance and out of sync with their horse's movement when the shock absorbing joints in their legs are locked and rigid.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1308
No moment riding without stirrups is ever wasted!
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1307
From Facebook fan Andrea Monsarrat Waldo ~ "You can learn to take the best from different trainers, but first you have to have a "skeleton," a theoretical framework to hang it all on, and that takes time and some consistency of training, I think. Once you have a
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1306
Many riders utilize leg yielding in the walk in the trot. But don't forget the canter! It can be quite useful to loosen up the horse's loin area, as well as improving suppleness and responsiveness.