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Tip/Quote of the Day # 576
Don't forget your outside leg in the circle of bending aids.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 575
Shoulder in to the right really strengthens the right hind leg, which will help to improve the horse's ability to do haunches in and half pass to the left. And vice versa.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 574
"Only the rider who is free from any contraction will have a horse equally free from contraction. A team such as this is the ideal” ~ Nuno Oliveira
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 573
The horse should be just as much "on the aids" in the stretching frame as he is in a working frame.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 572
Remember that you don't "push" your horse anywhere… you give him signals.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 571
"Good riders forget about the bad things. Inexperienced riders think mostly about the bad things. There are many roads to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same from the top." ~ Kyra Kyrklund
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 570
From Facebook fan Jennifer McGinley ~ "I'm realizing this concept more and more recently. If you establish the canter you need (balanced, adjustable) and keep the horse on his feet. Your horse can jump from anywhere. We are learning that you can actually ride forward and powerful to
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 569
Much like the way the horse is "in front of your leg" when he is responsive and thinking forward, he also needs to be "in front of" your inside leg to be responsive and bending properly.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 568
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 # 567
"Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head." ~ Nuno Oliveira
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 566
Horse and rider are not truly safe on cross country until they are both comfortable getting right to the base of the jumps.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 565
The intensity of your half halt is about the strength of your seat and core, and the push into the connection... not the amount of pull on the reins.