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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2977
Whatever bad habits or behavior you allow your horse to demonstrate without correction, you are actually training him to do it.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2976
To help to successfully maintain the sometimes elusive "forward feeling hands", imagine that you are pushing a shopping cart as you ride your horse forward into the bit.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2975
"Contact doesn't only refer to the hands, reins, and bit, but to the whole rider. A rider must give the horse contact through his entire seat. This means that his legs must lay gently against the horse's body, his seat must be balanced and supple,
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2974
The more you listen to your horse, the more your horse will be likely to listen to you.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2973
The hindquarters are the engine, but you turn the horse by controlling his shoulders.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2972
If you feel like you need to wear spurs when you ride, it would be a good idea to go back to the basics in your training to re-visit the concept of your horse answering your feather light leg aids. EVERY horse can be taught this!
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2971
If you use a stronger bit carefully in such a way that it makes your aids much lighter, a stronger bit can be a useful solution.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2970
Your attitude determines the quality of your practice. And the quality of your practice determines the quality of your performance.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2969
Every time you pull back on the inside rein, you block the horse's inside hind leg from stepping fully underneath his body.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2968
"Since the criteria of a correct seat are the same as the criteria of good posture in general, being constantly attentive to one’s bearing when standing or walking is excellent training. A correct vertical posture of the head and the trunk on horseback is not a special posture
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2967
A horse can not be said to be truly comfortable with ditches until they can reliably walk up to a ditch on a loose rein and pop over it happily.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2966
Secure your reins by keeping your bent thumbs pinched on top, but keep the rest of your fingers only lightly closed. Gripping the reins too firmly with all of your fingers will tend to tighten your forearms.