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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2383
"It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you." ~ Lendon Gray
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2382
"If you say nothing to a horse, you mean nothing to a horse. We have to be in a conversation and teaching them." ~ Robert Dover
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2381
"The better my dressage transitions are, the better the thoroughness, it means the horse can go from very fast, to very balanced and collected on the hindquarters, energy from behind, through – no argument with the bit – because the transition is through and fine, the horse can focus on the
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2380
From Facebook fan Joan Dunlap ~ "You must conquer your own fears, lack of knowledge and short-comings before you can even start to help your horse with theirs."
Tip/Quote of the Day # 2379
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2378
Think of riding the horse's outside hind leg actively through the turns to your jumps, to keep that canter well engaged behind.
Dr. Haefner's Advice
Sport Psych in a Minute, with Dr. Haefner - Video # 53: Personality Part 2: Internalizer or Externalizer
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2377
It takes an experienced instructor to know whether a rider who has lost their confidence needs to move back to smaller jumps and more simple exercises, or if that rider instead needs to be shown the exact techniques that are going to fix their problem, and then pushed hard, so
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2376
"Do your warm up trot sets with shorter stirrups in a two point instead of posting. If you listen closely, you can hear me laughing… most of us cannot trot in two point for three five minute sets, much less stay there for our conditioning sets. Even though you
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2375
While the distance in between the jumps is a big deciding factor in the speed and length of stride that you should approach with... generally approaching a combination or complex off of a shorter, bouncier stride will give you more options.
Questions
Question # 351: Anne has a question about her horse that tends to drop into the trot right before fences.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2374
Many riders think too much about stopping in downward transitions... meaning they won't be truly riding forward. This will likely cause the horse to brace against the hand, and/or to lose the activity of the hind legs. Instead, try thinking of changing gears without losing any of