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How to Best Handle Refusals and Runouts at Jumps
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Video # 22: This is Pamela and her horse Tuxedo doing their Beginner Novice dressage test!
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Lisa's Blog post # 42
What a difference a brief conversation can make! My ride on Cotton had been pretty bad – he just wasn’t listening to me! I decided to end our torture session to go walk the steep hill. We were up to 7 times. I knew I could at least do that
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Rider Position is Crucial
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Video Discussion # 9: Awesome video of a clinic with Eventing legend Lucinda Green!
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A Rider's Control of Emotions
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Video # 21: This is Briana and Henry doing their novice level dressage test! (Current freebie!)
Briana, you have a nice trot at the beginning here, although the rhythm is just a touch quick, which shows a bit of tension in his body. The figures that you do between 1:20 and 2:00 help him to relax his back and find a steadier rhythm with
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Video # 20: This is Briana and Henry in their stadium round at a novice event!
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Discussion # 10: What causes a horse to jump like this?
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Question # 47: I have a tendency to ride defensively, and get left behind over jumps. As a result, I land disorganized--with long reins, loss of contact and impulsion. My horse is not a stopper, so he usually jumps anyway, but those fences can be ugly!
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Lisa's Blog post # 41
Lesley proved to me that when Cotton is ridden correctly, he goes correctly – I’ve seen it with my own eyes when she's schooled him for me! So, my new philosophy is that instead of worrying so much about what Cotton is doing, I am concentrating on what