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"On the bit or on the buckle." Don't "sort of" have a contact. Try to either ride with a connection, or ride with a loose rein. That "in between" area where there is sometimes a feel and sometimes not, is where horses
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True regularity in the gaits can only be achieved when the movement goes through the horse's relaxed and swinging back.
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In your Dressage seat, mentally attach the reins to your pelvis via your elbows.
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"But for the horse, riding is indistinguishable from training; you're training your horse every time you ride it, like it or not." ~ William Steinkraus
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"Once you've raced, everything you do in Eventing is in slow motion in comparison." ~ Bruce Davidson
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Don't let your horse lean on your leg in the ribcage area. Teach him to yield to that pressure. Swinging the quarters out in response to your leg is an evasion, and is a very different response than truly yielding and bending in the body.
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You can't balance or collect energy that you don't have. You must have forward energy first!
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"The word Dressage is used precisely because of its double connotation for taming and training. One cannot train any animal without having its full attention and focus on the trainer. Taming—focusing the horse’s attention— is difficult because he is genetically determined by instinct and is programmed for
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When a horse collects, his shoulders will come up naturally as he engages and lowers his croup. Do NOT attempt to artificially raise the front end. That would be front to back riding, which is incorrect.
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Every well ridden corner is a suppling exercise, and should be recognized and ridden as such.
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"When the horse jumps, you go with it, not the other way around." ~ Bill Steinkraus
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Make sure you do not let your hot horse train you to ride with no leg. Every horse must learn to accept both the hand AND the leg.
