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The balance and design of the saddle that you are using will make or break you as a rider that is striving to improve! Once you have become very confident and quite solid in all your skills, you can probably ride well in just about any saddle. But when you
Dr. Haefner's Advice
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Success isn't about how far you get, but the distance you traveled from where you started.
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"When the horse knocks a pole down, 9/10 times it’s your fault even if you think it’s not your mistake." ~ Harry Charles
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"The jump is the product of your last three strides, always." ~ Michelle Strapp
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Big horses very often need to learn how to do a shorter, more active canter for the show jumping ring. Make sure you have achieved this before you start cantering courses!
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"A significant portion of the art of dressage lies in your ability to differentiate between the positive tension of focused athletic effort, and the negative tension of resistance, fear, and anxiety." ~ Katherine Bateson Chandler
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"Riding cross country is against the clock, but this doesn’t mean that you have to go fast. It means that you have to take good lines. Every extra ten feet, or three and a half metres that you travel, costs you one second. So if you can save
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"Re-schooling a horse with vices and sending it back to its owner is not enough. The vices will return with unguided riding. Only by retraining both horse and rider can the problem be solved." ~ Firn Hyde
Dr. Haefner's Advice
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"Is the rider able to ride all the movements with a long rein, long with contact, then as long as possible? It is possible to ride piaffe on a long rein when the rider rides 100% with a balanced body, and the horse is on his aids." ~ Christoph
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