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To achieve the lovely feeling of jumping "right out of your stride", you have to have the right canter for each situation. If you don't know what kind of canter you need for a particular jump… or are unable to create it exactly when you need
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Ride in counter flexion to correct over bending, on circles AND on straight lines.
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"Horsemanship is incorrect unless it displays what the horse naturally offers through his intrinsic beauty and energy." ~ Charles de Kunffy
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"Make the horse an offer, by taking hands forward (especially inside) - offer to make neck longer." ~ Reiner Klimke
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"There is no point in asking for connection until responsiveness from the leg has been achieved." ~ Laura Graves
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Riders have to be in self carriage before their horses can be in self carriage.
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"Riders who lean back are driving the horse down in front. If they sit too strong, behind the vertical, then they are pushing the horse down, through and into the hand." ~ Carl Hester
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"The absence of a correction is not a reward to a horse. The only thing that is a reward is ‘good girl’ or a pat on the neck or giving them a sugar. You can’t train a seal without fish." ~ Robert Dover
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It is a good idea to ask yourself regularly throughout your rides…. "Am I working too hard here?" If you are, your aids are probably WAY too strong. Go back a step, and work on more finesse.
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"What we want to start creating in these horses is an engine that is always running, where we don’t shift gears until we want to. It’s like revving your RPMs and waiting a moment before you shift up into that higher gear. But if you don’t
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"Every downward transition perfects the half halt. You don’t have to have a driving leg for the downward transition, you need a sustaining leg." ~ George Morris
