Dressage expert Trevor Woodward discusses how Collection and Extension are two sides of the same coin. You will not have good extension without good collection. To talk about collection and…
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In an excerpt from her new book, Dressage master Beth Baumert discusses the beauty of learning through imagination and imitation, a core principal behind the concepts in her instructional guide…
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More Insight into This Classical Suppling Straightening and Overall Throughness Exercise Shoulder-in is the beginning of your advanced development work that influences all upper-level movements. Shoulder-in preceded by shoulder-fore and…
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Where People and Horses Connect Linda Wagner’s love for horses started before she was born. “It began in the womb,” she laughs. “My dad painted a picture of a palomino…
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In this excerpt from Stride Control by Jen Marsden Hamilton, Jen describes some key factors to improve your horse’s shape over the jumps. Once the horse can jump individual jumps,…
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Improve your dressage and your jumping with athleticism and coordination developed over poles. The world-famous Cadre Noir of Saumur, France, always has jumps and poles in the dressage training area. When…
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Lost Confidence After a Fall? Give Yourself a Leg up on Full Recovery. Fact: In our career as equestrians, we are going to fall. As one horse show announcer regularly remarks,…
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We are so pleased to introduce Trevor Ibborson Woodward. Trevor is a Dressage trainer and rider who has lived his life perfecting and writing about the sport. Here, and in…
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Athletes know that if they repeat the same exercise every day they may plateau. So by cross training and implementing different exercises into their routine, they challenge their bodies to…
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MAY 2020 ISSUE. Advanced Level Eventer and psychotherapist Andrea Waldo tells us why we need to screw up (a lot!) if we want to be better riders. Everyone has heard the…
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