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Video: Improve Suppleness through Dialogue with Your Horse

To make your horse more rideable--and therefore more enjoyable to ride--you need to develop a dialog with him, explaining what your expectations are. At the basic level, these expectations include...

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Video: Use Cavalletti to Improve Trot Lengthenings

In part 1 I shared with you a simple forward-and-back exercise to help your horse produce beautiful lengthenings. Now I'll introduce cavalletti exercises that will further build the engagement, power,...

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Improve Your Horse's Adjustability Over Fences

Here's a great warm-up over fences, whether you're getting ready for a regular jumping session or preparing for my adjustability exercise in the January 2007 issue of Practical Horseman. By riding...

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Two Exercises to Improve Your Riding Balance

I'm going to get you started and help you prepare for one of the most basic dressage tests at a show--Training Level, Test 1. I'll demonstrate exercises to improve your...

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Improve Your Western Horse's Responsiveness with the Forehand Pivot

Today's winning Western pleasure horse must carry himself in a highly collected manner. Extreme collection enable him to move in a relaxed yet balanced way, with that sweepy, slow-legged look...

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Gymnastic Exercises Can Improve Your Horse's Performance

Any sport we do with our horses is an athletic activity, and, just like humans, horses aren't all born athletically equivalent. Some are stronger, faster, quicker,...

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Use Hill Work to Improve a Horse's Self Carriage

The first thing to achieve in the downhill phase is to release the sacrolumbar joint; until you do that, going downhill is nothing more than the horse tiptoeing, taking short...

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Jim Wofford: Improve Your Lower-Leg Position Over Jumps

Your lower leg position will determine to a great extent your success or failure in the two jumping phases of modern eventing, show jumping and cross-country. In my recent column...

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Rider To Rider: What Do You Do To Improve A Bad Ride?

I always look forward to tomorrow’s ride. I think of all the things I could’ve done to make it better and then try those things the next time I ride. Ally...

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Rider Fitness Tip of the Month: Improve Your Dressage Seat, Stabilize Your Pelvis

There are many ways to improve your dressage seat, and certainly the best way is to have good instruction with enough hours of accurate practice in the saddle. (Inaccurate practice...

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