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From Facebook fan Mei Bo-Pa: "My german jumping instructor always said 'the money is in the forward'. Meaning translated ride your horse with a powerful canter to the jump and leave its mouth alone."
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Many amateur riders have a tendency to worry about the fact that their aids may not always be 100% correct when they ask their horse to do something. And therefore they are less likely to insist if their horse does not respond correctly. But just remember that horses can be
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Riders who skip the stretching stage of warm up, because they do not believe in stretching horses, are trying to train for collection with horses that most often have tight, tense muscles under the rider that do not swing easily with the horse’s movement. This is a recipe for
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"Shoulders back, shoulders back, shoulders back. When in doubt, shoulders back." ~ Catherine Norman
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"We need the neck to stretch down for the warming up, right in front of the saddle so the back can come up and the hind legs can come under and this way we are able to connect the hind legs." ~ Martina Hannöver
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To lengthen your horse's frame, imagine that you are pushing the horse's head and neck away from you with your hands, while riding forward into that connection.
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"One of the goals of dressage is to recreate the natural beauty of the horse’s gaits under the rider, so that the horse moves as beautifully under the weight of the rider as he does at liberty. In order to achieve this, the swinging of the horse’s
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"It's important that the rider doesn't disturb the horse – leaning this way or that – and that is the same with this pulling and pushing. You give a half halt, but half halt is not just pull back and then let go. First of all you
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If a horse is bracing against your hand, you don't fix the problem in your hand. You fix it in the horse's body.
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"What goes on in your brain, goes down through the rein." ~ Andrew Hoy
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Many horses think of walk time as "break" time. If you want to ensure that you get good scores on your walk work, you have to convince your horse otherwise in your daily work.
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"You MUST stop looking at the size of the fence and answer the question. Two enormous tables on a bending line may be what you see, but the question could be going away from home and rather than be a bending line, it could be a slice with the
