4 Preparatory Exercises for your Jumping Horse
Preparation is half the battle. This also applies to jumping exercises for horses. It is much more fun, and much safer for horse and rider, if you prepare yourself step by step and grow with your tasks.
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Training Young Horses: Mounting for the First Time
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Riding your Horse with Soft Hands
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While rules can be quite relaxed when you are just competing against friends, when you start competing at a more serious level, you need the right equipment.
Basic Training of Young Horses: Lunging, Tying and Saddling for the First Time
There is great value to a successful start in a horse’s training, which is why Uta Gräf and her husband Stefan Schneider dedicate so much attention to this phase.
Help! My Horse Keeps Bucking
A horse bucking because he feels good is one thing but bucking under saddle is another, ranging from fairly harmless little bunny hops to terrifying bronc shows.
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A dressage philosophy that emphasizes lightness. What do Philippe Karl and his students do differently?
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Are bandages or riding boots better to protect our horse’s legs? Or perhaps it would be healthier not to use them at all?
Equine First Aid: Caring for your Horse’s Wounds
Injuries and ailments can – literally – get under your horse’s skin. These are often associated with side effects that affect not only the horse’s appearance, which makes good horse wound care all the more important.
Keeping your Horse Motivated in Winter: Tips for Healthy Training
Here are tips to help you get through winter whilst keeping your horse happy, healthy and sound. The appropriate warm-up, the right care as well as what you feed all have an impact on your horse in winter.
The Real Definition of Impulsion in Dressage
Correct impulsion isn’t only meant to look nice in the dressage arena, it’s also a requirement of correct dressage training.
Eventing: From the Dressage Ring to the Cross Country Start Box
If there was one ultimate test to gauge athleticism in humans, what might that test be? In the world of equestrian sports, the answer is clear, and that answer is Eventing.
Mastering Competitions: Tips For Successful Dressage Tests
Competitions can and should be fun for horse and rider and also a great addition for training and overall progress. This article wants to inform you about how riding a dressage test can be successful and fun.
Getting a Handle on Rearing and Bucking: A Time and a Place for Everything
What actually causes horse rearing and bucking? What triggers or causes these behaviors to occur, and are they as exciting as they are depicted to be?
3 Cavaletti Exercises for your Horse
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Saddle Pads: How to Choose the Right One
With so many different kinds, how do you go about choosing a saddle pad that’s right for you? Master Saddler Tom Büttner in Dresden can tell you what to look for when choosing a saddle pad.
Lunging: Vary your Training with Cavaletti Exercises
Lunging training over poles and Cavaletti is a particularly worthwhile exercise: your horse is stimulated to push off with more intent.
Alizée Froment – The Art of Riding Bitless
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Forget the Saddle: The Advantages & the Art of Bareback Riding
Nothing in the world compares to it. The degree of intimacy, the depth of connection, the feeling of being a single, unified moving part. It’s the one thing that improves your ability more quickly than anything else. It’s bareback riding.
For All His Grace: Horse Movement & His Unique Gaits
The horse has helped man fight in battle. He has allowed man to travel vast distances. He has plowed our fields and raised our young, and in all this, he has shared with us his uncanny precision of grace, of movement.
Great Things Come to Those That Groom: The Necessity of Grooming Horses
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Fitness Training for Better Riding
The effect of integrating riding specific exercises into your fitness program, or just doing it once or twice a week as your fitness program, will yield fabulous results.
10 Exercises for Improving your Riding Seat
“One of these days I’ll have to do something about my riding seat!” – who among us hasn’t thought this? Simply starting will help considerably.
The Path to Success Always Begins from the Ground Up: The Pivotal Role of Groundwork Aids
Building a solid foundation upon which to build any process, product, relationship, or development is crucial in obtaining a final product that exudes excellence. Such is true of horsemanship.
Mastering Flying Changes
Flying changes are either inevitable in the jumping course or the next step to a more advanced dressage level. Either way, it is a wonderful feeling for the rider when the horse changes leads in canter by jumping energetic and powerful into the new direction.
The Fundamentals of Driving in Equestrianism
It doesn’t matter if the driving sport is used for leisure or competition, if it is with a single, a pair or a four- in- hand carriage or with horses or ponies- anything is possible!
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A well-fitting saddle is worth its weight in gold! Unfortunately, the search for the right saddle is a topic that drives many riders to despair.
Showjumping Distances: An International Guide!
In order to ride combinations and distances confidently, it is important for the rider to know how to measure the distances between two jumps as well as how many strides are needed.
The Ultimate Guide to Show Jumping Competitions
The discipline of show jumping is one of the three equestrian disciplines found at the Olympics, World Equestrian Games, World Cup Series, and the Nations Cup Series.
Riding a Correct Dressage Halt: How to Score Points at Competitions
There’s one thing that can help you collect extra points at your next dressage test: riding a good dressage halt! That’s because a good halt counts as much as other “more difficult” dressage skills.
Groundwork: Introducing your Horse to In-Hand Exercises
As an introduction, here are three tips from Kathrin Roida on how you can exercise your horse, for both beginners and advanced riders.
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