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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3840
The upper arm belongs to the rider's seat, while the rider's lower arm belongs to the horse, and should be forward feeling at all times.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3839
"May every rider strive for a better connection with his or her horse by observation, closer understanding and patient groundwork. It matters not what discipline is pursued, only that there be a perfectly balanced union between the two – man and horse – so that the two become one." ~ Frederic
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3838
"If you can't feel your own body, good luck feeling what your horse is doing." ~ Anne Kursinski
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3837
"The seat and weight aids are supporting aids. They support either a leg or rein aid, or both. Don’t underestimate their significance though. They are important aids, especially in the fine tuning of advanced horses. The leg and rein aids will fail to achieve their full effectiveness without
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3836
If your breastplate is fairly tight when your horse is standing still, you will be preventing your horse from being able to use his shoulders at all as he moves and jumps. Make sure there is enough room to put a fist between the middle of the breastplate and the
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3835
You will generally have more options when you approach a jump off of a shorter, bouncier stride with lots of activity in the hind legs.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3834
When jumping in muddy or deep conditions, you need extra impulsion. Make sure you have it before you need it.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3833
Dressage is natural for horses, but that does not mean it is always easy for them. Since we cannot explain to them why we are asking them to do things that require increased effort, and go against their natural instincts to do things in the easiest way possible - we must
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3832
Always pay attention to how you finish every single exercise that you ride. Letting yourself or your horse fall into a heap as you pull up only creates bad habits for both of you. Always finish with a proper transition into the walk.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3831
With young or untrained horses who conformationally have a high set on neck (which is a good trait to have for a jumping or Dressage horse), you have to be particularly careful that you don’t work them in a frame that is too advanced for their strength level. It
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3830
"Just as the sculptor at first chisels the future outlines of his work of art with powerful blows out of the crude block of stone, and then lets it develop in increasingly finer detail in all its beauty, the aids of the rider must also become more and more
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3829
A real collected gait should feel like a contained medium gait. Not just slower, with shorter strides - but with enough stored energy and contained power that you feel that all you have to do to get medium trot or canter is to release it.