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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2650
If you don’t ride and train in such a way that your horse learns to listen to your seat, you will usually find that you have to use a lot more hand to get things done.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2649
Horses need to be moving with a supple and relaxed back to have true impulsion. If the body is not relaxed and supple, any forward energy is just running.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2648
Feel your horse's rhythm with your whole body when riding. Whether you are doing Dressage, jumping, galloping cross country, or just enjoying a relaxing trail ride, the more you can be in sync with your horse's rhythm, the more harmony you will find.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2647
Let your aids breathe. By that I mean two things. While giving any aid, keep breathing. And for the aid itself, make sure you are able to keep it supple so that it can go with the horse's motion while being applied. Aids of any kind always work
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2646
As an Eventer, it is smart to do some of your canter flatwork at the gallop, to teach your horse that the extra speed of the gallop is not an excuse to be wild or disobedient.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2645
"Dressage riders should have been born without arms." ~ Johan Hinnemann
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2644
Ride your horse to the contact, but be careful to not drive him through the contact.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2643
"If one induces the horse to assume that carriage which it would adopt of its own accord when displaying its beauty, then, one directs the horse to appear joyous & magnificent, proud & remarkable for having been ridden." ~ Xenophon
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2642
Teach the lazy type of horse to think forward coming out of every corner, in both Dressage and Jumping.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2641
"Generally shorter backed horses find it more difficult to stretch." ~ Carl Hester
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2640
From Facebook fan Jennifer Stankiewicz ~ "To move the back end faster, move your hips faster. To do changes in dressage, you need to move your hips faster than the change, not with the changes or they get too slow and you end up behind the horse instead of with
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2639
Never forget that success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and out. It will NOT come all at once.