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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"Your back must stay strong in a canter/walk transition, but your hands must stay low so that your horse will stay through." ~ Stephen Clarke</span></p>2024-03-17T17:40:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3892
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">Even on straight lines, the principle of inside leg to outside rein still applies - particularly in the canter, to keep the horse truly straight.</span></p>2024-03-16T19:55:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3891
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 24px;">The more a horse <i>relaxes</i> within a lateral movement, the more gymnastic value the exercise will have. </span></p>2024-03-16T01:10:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3890
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">“When you don't have a confident position, it’s saying to people you don’t believe in yourself. So sit up, shoulders back, chin high, and ride your best test.” ~ Robert Dover</span></p>2024-03-14T22:35:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3889
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<p><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><a href="/articles/exercises_to_improve_your_horses_suppleness" target="_blank" title="Lateral suppling exercises" style="color: #7c6da5; font-size: 24px !important;">Lateral work</a><span> </span>can be used to steady and improve the regularity of the rhythm of your horse’s gaits. Particularly with horses that want to rush and/or become irregular, asking for a little </span><a href="/articles/shoulder_in" target="_blank" title="Shoulder in" style="color: #54acd2; font-size: medium;">shoulder in</a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">, </span><a href="/articles/leg_yielding" target="_blank" title="Leg Yielding" style="color: #54acd2; font-size: medium;">leg yield</a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">, or a few steps of </span><a href="/articles/spiral_in_and_out_on_a_circle" target="_blank" title="Spiral in and out" style="color: #54acd2; font-size: medium;">spiral in or out</a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">, can help them wait and find more cadence in their stride.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>2024-03-13T16:14:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3888
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"When you relax your arms and feel the reins softly you need to feel that your horse wants to step into the contact. If you do not then he is behind your leg and seat." ~ Yvonne Barteau</span></p>2024-03-12T21:40:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3887
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<p><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">"</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Think of your elbows as hinges, bent, hands level and together. Sit square and even in the saddle. Open your knees, open your thigh, let the weight go to your heels, keep your knee soft." ~ Gill Rolton</span></p>2024-03-11T21:40:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3886
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">If your horse is strung out and on the forehand, they will be more likely to slip, trip, or stumble at any time. Just one of the many reasons you should strive to keep your horse balanced at all times! </span></p>2024-03-09T23:34:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3885
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">Point your chest in the direction that you want to go. If you turn your horse with your body position, you will probably find that you will need a lot less hand and leg to get it done.</span></p>2024-03-08T20:52:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3884
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">Any aid that is given constantly to the horse will cause him to become numb to it to at least some degree.</span></p>2024-03-07T19:13:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3883
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">You cannot hide your fear or lack of understanding from a horse. They always know.</span></p>2024-03-06T19:10:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3882
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." ~ Norman Peale</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">Think about how this can be applied to riding... You will improve more with a coach who tells you what you really need to hear, rather than one that just tells you how wonderful you are doing.</span></p>2024-03-04T21:35:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3881
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">When riding any movement or lateral exercise, you should be able to give away the inside rein to prove that your horse is honestly stepping up into the outside rein.</span></p>2024-03-03T19:03:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3880
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"In practice, do things as perfectly as you can: in competition, do what you have to do." ~ William Steinkraus</span></p>2024-03-02T15:48:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3879
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"The true joy for the good dressage rider is found in watching a horse develop mentally and physically through successful training. I have seen some amazing transformations in horses. For instance, a horse with poor conformation—one that has an under neck and a back that drops away from the saddle—can be completely changed by developing the right muscles. After proper training in self-carriage, his outline can be beautiful." ~ Felicitas Von Neumann-Cosel</span></p>2024-03-01T17:46:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3878
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"Sit on your pockets like you got a million bucks in there." ~ Unknown</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">Technically it isn't correct to be sitting all the way on your back pockets. This can, however, be a good thing for a rider who has a tendency to lean too far forward to think about doing!</span></p>2024-02-29T20:49:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3877
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"One of the good things about our sport is that while getting older might slow your reflexes down, the knowledge you have enables you to continue to improve, and handle the challenges better." ~ Shane Rose</span></p>2024-02-28T21:20:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3876
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"'I have time' should be the guiding word especially of dressage riders during the entire course of training and remind him of the fact that the goal of the classical art of riding is to be attained only by the gradual increase of demands." ~ Alois Podhajsky</span></p>2024-02-27T21:08:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3875
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">Focusing on carrying your head correctly will correct most posture bad habits.</span></p>2024-02-26T16:34:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3874
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"I want any rider approaching any jump to concentrate on rhythm. They should concentrate on HOW they get there, not where they get to." ~ Jimmy Wofford</span></p>2024-02-26T00:49:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3873
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"If you let your horse set the tempo - then they are in charge. If the rider sets the correct tempo then the horse - a herd animal - has a leader to trust and work with." ~ Peter Atkins</span></p>2024-02-24T23:00:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3872
https://myvirtualeventingcoach.com/articles/eventing-tip-quote-3872
<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">On being ridden with conflicting aids - "Some horses can cope while others develop serious behaviour problems. As riders and trainers, we don't always notice because horses don't yelp and scream, they just show conflict behaviour. As humans, we often interpret that as 'naughty' behaviour. Perhaps one day it will be part of every horseman's tool box to identify conflict behaviour in all its forms and see the horse as an entirely blameless participant in the training process." ~ Dr Andrew McLean</span></p>2024-02-24T01:31:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3871
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"Contact has to be just that, contact. People think 'oh this horse is very light I have nothing in my hand' – this is wrong because then you have no contact to his hind legs." ~ Jean Bemelmans</span></p>2024-02-22T18:55:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3870
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">When tacking up, always take the time to pull your saddle pads well up into the pommel of the saddle. The pressure of a tight saddle pad across the withers area can make a horse sore.</span></p>2024-02-21T21:33:00-00:00Tip/Quote of the Day # 3869
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<p><span style="font-size: 24px;">"Don't take the tempo down without revving the engine." ~ Chris Bartle</span></p>2024-02-20T19:26:00-00:00