Draw Reins: A Good Teaching Tool Only IF …
…the same manner as your essential aids—your legs and hands—to produce a horse who moves willingly and trustingly from your legs into your hands. In the past, your horse may…
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Whips Should Match The Job At Hand
…in jumper classes typically carry the longer length. For children, we like Roma’s ”Hand” bat with its hand-shaped popper, because it reminds young riders what the point of the aid…
Dressage Fleck Whips
…a whip that doesn’t have a handle. One time-tested solution to the balance problem, with or without a handle, is to slip a rubber rein stop onto your whip from…
Hunt Seat Hand Position
…feel with your hands is equal to what he feels in his mouth. Now you’re ready for anything. Correct Hand Position Correct, Modified Hand Position. ? Cappy Jackson 2. The…
Chris Kappler: Riding With Less Hand
…as little hand as I can. The less hand I use, the more my horses give me. That’s something I constantly remind myself about. If I’m too stiff in the…
Dressage Fitness and Balance with Cavalletti
…Correct Hand Position Ingrid emphasized that our job, as riders, is to be perfect with our hands. She was strict about hand position, instructing riders to have their hands together…
Training Your Horse to Leg Yield
…on the neck to feel welcome moving toward that hand. You want him to ”fill” the outside rein. The same inclination may also lead you to cross the inside hand…
15 Riding Tips from George Morris
…early lesson that he can’t get his head higher than my hand. … I’m keeping my hand up and driving him forward with my inside leg, very much on the…
Develop Model Hands
…rider’s hands, they’re anything but “good” and effective, no matter how picture-perfect they may look. Good hands defined “Good hands” support and work in conjunction with the other aids–principally the…
Maggie Jayne and Frosted Blue Come Out On Top in $25,000 USHJA International Hunter Derby
…were then called back to the ring to compete over the handy round, with Maggie Jayne and Frosted Blue in the lead. The handy round posed many questions for riders,…