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"They asked me at the Seminar, how should a horse look when it is coming towards you? I said to them, if you meet someone and they are looking you in the eyes, a little bit proud, nose up, not arrogant, but someone coming to you, giving you their
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"In the counter canter, ride small tempo changes so the counter canter develops the same stride length as the normal canter." ~ Johan Hamminga
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"We must listen to the horse. Collect a little, and if he becomes stiff in his top line, go out [of it]." ~ Johan Hamminga
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"I find it better to often have short, intensive moments – ten or fifteen minutes – not longer, then a break to allow the muscles to recover. If you want the horse to carry more weight, then you need time for muscle recovery." ~ Johan Hamminga
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When the rider starts to waterski off of a horse's mouth, the horse generally obliges and becomes the motorboat.
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"The horse should understand 3 things from the rider's leg: forward, bend, move over. Until the rider understands this the horse can't, so they can't get inside leg to outside rein. Most riders/horses only understand using a driving leg." ~ Susan Moessner
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"The forehand is not to be raised by the rider's hands ! This mania of trying to ride a horse with a 'Grand-prix neck', a horse who moves with Training level hindquarters, is abominable." ~ Charles de Kunffy
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"Riders just worry about the horse’s head – but the horse has a hindquarter, a shoulder, and a head and neck. The rider’s lower leg controls the hindquarter, to a certain extent the shoulder is positioned by the legs and hands, and the head and neck are controlled
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"It’s the self-questioning, self-doubting rider that gets the least/worst responses from the horses." ~ Nicole Cotten Ackerman
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"One can never, I believe, strive for a lack of criticism in riding – because I don’t think that there is such a thing as perfect riding. I don’t think anybody’s performance is beyond some sort of criticism." ~ Tad Coffin
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"Nevertheless the freedom of the shoulders in all gaits is always only the result of elevation, and this in turn is the result of the hindquarters carrying the correct weight." Gustav Steinbrecht
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You should land from a jump sinking into your heels.
