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Discussion # 96: Let's discuss a rider's mental focus in this sport!
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Jocelyn's Blog Post # 3: What Do You Do When the Problem is You?
Last week, the two trainers I ride with gave me similar lectures on two consecutive days. The first told me I need to get out of my head and stay there, that my ability was held back by my intensity and anxiety. The second said that my academic mind focused
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Question # 223: What are some exercises to strengthen stifles aside from hill work? (Vita)
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Guest Blog Post # 39: "Fear" by Shanyn Fiske
I’ve been thinking lately about fear – both the long-range, abstract kind (I am being a bad parent and therefore my child will grow up to become a social abomination) and the concrete, immediate kind (my horse will refuse to jump that giant brush and I will crash into it
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On Riding Goals!
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Photo # 58: This is Amy again!
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Question # 222: Last year I restarted a TB filly who had come off the track in December and was let down until we brought her home in May. She was always one to get tense and stiff the moment she didn't understand something...
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Photo # 57: This is Amy!
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Jocelyn's Blog Post # 2
Different Horse, Different Warm-up For six years, I primarily evented the same horse. Over those years, I honed his warm up routine. He did well with a day off the day before an event, particularly if we trailered in the night before. Dressage warm-up was a light hand gallop up
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Guest Blog Post # 38: "Tammy, Tell Me 'Through'" by Bill Woods
Tammy, Tell Me “Through” Today’s topic makes some assumptions. For this to be an address-able issue, you have to be at the stage where your horse goes on a steady contact established between your pushing aids and your receiving, elastic elbows. You must be able to have created a