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"Frame talks about how high or low [the horse] is, how long she is or how short she is. Think about a frame for a picture. A frame can be for a square picture or a rectangular picture. And then think about what kinds of walks and canters and
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"When you expect too little, you accept too little." ~ Robert Dover
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"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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Horses point their nose at what they wants to see in focus. This is why we want our horses' head and nose UP on the approach to their fences, and why we need to allow them to lower their heads and look at the takeoff of an open ditch
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The horse should be just as much "on the aids" and "between your leg and hand" when he is in a stretching frame, as he is in a working frame.
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Transitions work to engage the horse's mind as well as his hind legs.
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Don't wait until the horse is doing something perfectly to reward. You must reward the horse when he begins to go in the right direction of the correct response, however slightly that may be. How else will the horse know that he has the right idea??
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Always look for the feeling that there is a medium gait contained within your collected gait. If you don't feel that you could simply release your collected trot or canter into a medium gait, then you do not have true collection - You merely have a horse that
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Similar to the way the horse is "in front of your leg" when he is responsive to a light forward aid and thinking forward on his own, he also needs to be "in front of" your inside leg to be responsive and bending properly.
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From Facebook fan Racheal Hawkins-Cox ~ "Compressing forward energy creates more power at jumps."
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The sign of a good rider is that their aids are so light, smooth, and nearly invisible that you can barely notice them.
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"Most alleged training ‘innovations’ aren’t really new but were actually dismissed as useless centuries ago." ~ Klaus Balkenhol
