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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3227
"Until you can lengthen and shorten strides all other movements suffer." ~ Trevor Woodward
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Tip/Quote of the Day!
Tip/Quote of the Day # 3226
Turn your horse at his shoulders, not his nose.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3225
When you halt and salute the judge at a competition, remember to smile! This will send the judge the message that you are confident about your performance, which can impress the judge and may even influence your scores in a subconscious way.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3224
It can be tempting to want to repeat something over and over when you feel like you are making some progress on a movement you have been struggling with. But it will be more productive to reward one especially good effort... give the horse a break, and move on to
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3223
When giving the aid to canter, let your outside leg sink down and back as the last part of your canter aid. If you lift your leg up and back to use it (as so many incorrectly do), you will end up losing your seat to some degree, and may
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3222
"Contact has to be just that, contact. People think 'oh this horse is very light I have nothing in my hand' – this is wrong because then you have no contact to his hind legs." ~ Jean Bemelmans
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3221
Posting or rising at the trot can sometimes be a useful exercise as you ride a collected trot. It can encourage the horse to think more forward and swing more fully through the body.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3220
Aim to strengthen your courage muscle daily!
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Guest Blog # 118: Why Counter Canter? by Bill Woods
An old friend of mine, Colonel Aage Sommer (DEN) used to say “One counter canter is worth ten true canters.” It was implied, but allow me to state it outright: one good counter canter! The benefit of counter canter is not that you can manage to canter around on the
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3219
You must keep riding forward into the bit while riding your horse in a stretching position. A low neck does nothing without the horse remaining active and swinging behind the saddle.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3218
Don't compare your results to someone else's. You can never be another person, you can only be a better version of yourself.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3217
"There are two types of seat, active and passive. Don’t ride hard all the time: active, passive, active. The main thing is to think about the horse’s back a lot." ~ Carl Hester