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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3055
"You can exaggerate every virtue into a defect." ~ Bill Steinkraus
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3054
"Check the engine well before the jump..... to not distract and break the rhythm just before the jump." ~ Ginger Cantor
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3053
Training a horse too hard and too often doesn't build muscle, it breaks it down. Make sure you are allowing for muscle recovery between workouts.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3052
Riders should know where their horse is going to land from a jump before they take off. How? The type of canter in the final strides of the approach will dictate the shape of the horse's jumping effort, and the trajectory of the jump.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3051
It can be helpful to make lots of little changes of frame in your warm-up… a little stretching, a little up, and repeat… This can help your horse to come more through his body.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3050
True with all horses, but especially so with young or green horses, the first lesson we want to teach them is to love to learn new things.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3049
"You are connected with your seat to the horse’s back, connected with your legs to the horse’s body, and connection can only work if it goes through the whole horse and into the rider’s body, and from the rider’s body back to the whole horse.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3048
Riders should be aware of the specific questions posed by each individual jump on course, and should not treat all jumps the same. Things that need to be taken into consideration are the shape of the jump, the footing, the terrain involved before and after the jump, the lighting, the
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3047
"Horses are not trying to be difficult. They’re probably just trying to understand and sometimes they don’t know how to do it, or they don’t get your signals. You have to learn a little bit every day, and when they do something correct, give them a
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3046
"Once you've used an aid, put it back." ~ Bill Steinkraus
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3045
"When the horse is forward, when the horse is using his hind leg more under the body and the neck falls down from out of the wither, then it doesn’t matter if the nose is a little behind the vertical if there is no pulling by the rider.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3044
It is NOT correct to try to raise the horse's neck or shoulders in any way with the reins. True front end elevation in Dressage comes only from real collection induced lowering of the hind quarters.