November 9, 2015
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School movements, test riding, how to school, training, horse fitness and using gymnastic movements to improve the mechanics of the horse.
November 9, 2015
If you have been trained that you need to use the rein to keep the horses head down, and that it is more than 20% of your focus when riding, you are barking up the entirely wrong tree and have your focus in the wrong place. I know this from experience, I spent many years doing and thinking exactly this!
November 9, 2015
Suppleness comes in two components. The lateral flexion of the horse, its ability to follow the curve of a circle with appropriate neck bend, is the first component. The second component is longitudinal flexion which is the stretch across the top line, over its back and down the back of its hind legs. In this post we will talk about lateral flexion.
November 9, 2015
Dressage Solution : A Riders Guide is a beautifully bound book with crystal clear, high quality photographs and diagrams...
November 9, 2015
As judges we are there to observe and make comments and not there to deliver lessons
November 9, 2015
In an attempt to teach lengthened strides I see a lot of riders gunning their horses across the diagonal in the hope of getting medium trot or lengthened strides. Whilst it is true that some horses may offer up lengthened strides using that technique, it works in too few cases.
