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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
Tip/Quote of the Day!
Tip/Quote of the Day # 3216
Train your horse to understand that he should stay at whatever speed you put him in until told otherwise. Remember that every time you allow your horse to make a decision about his speed or energy level (or don't realize that he has done so), you are training
Tip/Quote of the Day!
Tip/Quote of the Day # 3215
"The horse has to have independence, responsibility, and tolerance for a variety of distances [when jumping] because you’re going to mess up and the horse has to be able to cope." ~ William Fox Pitt
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3214
"Make him proudly independent of you so that he understands his job so well you merely walk the course and then show him the way. Tell your horse what you want him to do, and then allow him to do it." ~ Jimmy Wofford
Tip/Quote of the Day!
Tip/Quote of the Day # 3213
"If you put a muscle where it doesn’t want to be, it is broken down – not build up." So don't go thinking that you are building the right muscles when you force a horse's head into a position. The horse has to be
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3212
"Until you can lengthen and shorten strides all other movements suffer." ~ Trevor Woodward
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3211
"On the bit or on the buckle." Don't "sort of" have a contact. Try to either ride with a connection, or ride with a loose rein. That "in between" area where there is sometimes a feel and sometimes not, is where horses
Tip/Quote of the Day!
Tip/Quote of the Day # 3210
True regularity in the gaits can only be achieved when the movement goes through the horse's relaxed and swinging back.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3209
In your Dressage seat, mentally attach the reins to your pelvis via your elbows.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3208
"But for the horse, riding is indistinguishable from training; you're training your horse every time you ride it, like it or not." ~ William Steinkraus