Sally Swift’s Centered Riding Basics of Soft Eyes, Breathing, Centering and Balance all play a role in helping to achieve a soft, clear connection with your horse.
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
How to Create an Extended Trot - The Refined Rider - Dressage - Learn how to create an exhilarating extension across the diagonal!
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
Sally Swift’s Centered Riding Basics of Soft Eyes, Breathing, Centering and Balance all play a role in helping to achieve a soft, clear connection with your horse.
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If your horse is lazy and not in front of your leg, your legs actually need to do less rather than more so that your aids mean something
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
Are you having trouble with lower-leg strength while riding? Try these four simple exercises!
World Cup finalist George Williams gives you nine exercises to become more effective with the application and timing of your aids.
If your horse is lazy and not in front of your leg, your legs actually need to do less rather than more so that your aids mean something
Raul de Leon answers a reader's question on how to cope with a horse that is heavy on the forehand.
Dressage Training TV is an online membership site for equestrians. Dressage training courses & Certification Programmes from Ride With Your Mind coaches.
Dressage judge Sandy Hotz offers advice on how to make a dressage horse's trot more elastic.
A flying lead change is an impressive and graceful way for your horse to change the legs it is leading with during a canter. For many horses and riders, it can be a difficult transition to master, but with patience and preparation, you can...
Learn to nail your lope transitions with this demonstration from world champion trainer Carol Metcalf.
Take the confusion out of riding with leg cues and start riding your barrel horse's WHOLE BODY!
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
To be more than a passenger, you need to sit in a position that allows you to give light but effective aids, without hindering the horse.
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
A topic that comes up frequently at clinics and during lessons is the rider’s aids. How to ask for this movement or where to put the hands for this maneuver… it seems many riders get very stuck on how much to use which aid, where and when. Without getting into specifics about each particular thingContinue reading "The Ideal Ratio of Aids"
A horse is only as balanced and disciplined as its rider. Anyone who has spent a significant chunk of time in the saddle learns to be very aware of their body. Often, we know the little quirks we n…
An interesting article about symptoms and problems as a result of the horse's natural asymmetry: Lean on one rein, hard mouth, back problems, stiffness, ...
Three simple dressage exercises from Spencer Wilton to help improve the rideability of the horse, giving the rider control, confidence and calmness
This is "Dressage Training with Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin" by Josie Le Grice on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
The Refined Rider - Dressage- Why pulling on the reins just doesn't work! Learn why pulling on the reins actully makes stopping harder!
This exercise helps the horse loosen “over the top line” – getting longer through the neck and back, and then shorter – in a low-impact, non-rushed pace that gives him time …
There are 5 mistakes that happen very frequently and that make it almost impossible for the horse to perform the leg yield correctly. Many riders struggle with the leg yield, especially in the trot. So I decided to discuss the subject in a newsletter article in the hopes that it will be of
Balance is an important skill in horseback riding. Balance will help you control the horse through muscular movements, and it will keep you in the saddle if the horse spooks or bolts. A good balance begins with a good seat in the saddle....
