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"Lateral work to achieve straightness: My horse was backing off instead of accepting the left rein so we rode renvers to the left and shoulder in to the right. As soon as he was accepting the left rein we could go straight - and actually succeed at being straight."
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Ride your horse like you just know he is going to do everything right. He will feel your positive vibes.
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"Beware of the modern day notion that a person can 'invent' a new horse training method. There are no quick and easy ways. Truth is that the training of a horse is a study, a craft, an art. Training takes patience and the knowledge develops over many
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It is SO easy to let bad habits creep into your riding. This is why you must have eyes on the ground - no matter what level you ride at!
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Be wary of trainers who encourage you to do things to artificially "lift" the horse in front. True elevation comes only from lowering the quarters.
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With horses that like to curl their neck and become over bent, the rider needs to be careful not to get their reins too short. This will cause the horse to stay too short in the neck. Think of having longer arms that are always reaching towards the horse’s
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"You can learn to take the best from different trainers, but first you have to have a 'skeleton,' a theoretical framework to hang it all on, and that takes time and some consistency of training, I think. Once you have a system you can add to it/
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"I never really work a horse for longer than four or five minutes [at a time.] I want to take a quick break, and then we go again. Any of you who’ve worked out know how much a break of 30 seconds can help. It gets some oxygen
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A double bridle is meant for refinement of the aids, it is NOT meant to be a tool to hold your horse together when you can't do it in a snaffle.
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"Some riders change their horse, they change their saddle, they change their teacher; they never change themselves." ~ Unknown
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Train amongst distractions if you want to be able to perform with them.
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We all know that horses can't learn when they are scared... but horses don't learn very much when they are bored either. They have to be mentally engaged to learn. So to make sure your horse can learn, you have to find the right balance between
