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Equine Acupressure: The Ultimate Guide
In this article, you will be introduced to the fundamentals of equine acupressure and will find out what this component of Traditional Chinese Medicine is all about and how it can be used to help horses.
Tackling the Speed Trial Obstacles in Working Equitation
The speed trial is the final test during Working Equitation individual competitions and the next to last in team competitions. It is thrilling to watch a great horse and rider win this portion of the competition because it takes hard work for both.
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.
EQUITANA USA and wehorse Kick Off Partnership with Interactive Digital Event 9/21/21 Featuring Karen Rohlf
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EQUITANA USA, the mother of all horse fairs, and wehorse, Europe’s leading streaming education platform for equestrians, kick off their partnership –
Forward & Down: The Key to a Correct Stretching Posture
Everyone talks about how stretching forward and downwards towards the bit is good for the horse, but actually being able to do it correctly is not so easy.
Protecting your Horse’s Legs: Boots or Bandages?
Are bandages or riding boots better to protect our horse’s legs? Or perhaps it would be healthier not to use them at all?
Lateral Exercises in Dressage: From Leg Yield to Half Pass
The first-time seeing dressage in action is much like watching magic. The complexity and discipline required to execute such intricate, sophisticated patterns and maneuvers is almost unbelievable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Riding your Horse with Soft Hands
The ability to ride your horse with soft, quiet hands is the first step towards developing an even, elastic contact to the bit and, therefore, with the mouth of your horse.
Jumping Cross Country: Chris Bartle’s Tips for a Safe Seat!
British eventing champion and German team trainer Chris Bartle holds seminars on the best ways to stay safe in the saddle when facing tricky situations on cross country courses, from slipping the reins to the “Oh shit!” position.
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?
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.
Improving your Rider’s Position: How to Prevent the “Chair Seat”
There are usually two groups of riders that deal with the chair seat problem: new riders at the beginning of their training, and many riding instructors teaching the basics.
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.
To Blanket or not to Blanket? The Ultimate Horse Blanket Guide and Compendium
Why is it that horses actually wear blankets, and is the act of turning out horses in the winter without a blanket an act of neglect, or is it the owner’s choice as to whether or not to fit their horses with this winter attire?
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.
Staying Motivated when Training Horses: 5 Tips you Should Know About!
When training horses, staying motivated at all times can be challenging. Here are some tips to help you reach your goals and be happy in the saddle!
Training Young Horses: Mounting for the First Time
This is Part 2 of young horse training at Gut Rothenkircherhof.
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.
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.
The Ultimate Guide to Helping your Horse Building Back Muscles
Whoever wants to ride wants to do so on a horse with a well-trained musculature. Because we all know that this is a huge factor in maintaining long term health and soundness.
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 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.
Success is Just Around the Bend: Tips for Developing the Bending Dressage Horse
Flexibility. It’s one of our most important traits. Life is all about flexibility. Whether it’s preparing for a last-minute meeting, dealing with a change in plans for your dinner date, or simply embracing a spontaneous moment during this great adventure we call life, everyone needs to be flexible. Everyone needs to have a little bend. So do horses; especially in the complex arena of the world of dressage.
A Good Farrier is Hard to Forget: The Importance of Farriers & Their Role in Equine Healthcare
A horse farrier is a professional who is trained to care for equine feet. He or she possesses knowledge in both biology and anatomy and has studied the physiological needs and makeup of horses at length.
3 Cavaletti Exercises for your Horse
Cavaletti exercises are a great opportunity for horses of all ages and levels to get in some gymnastic work.
Alizée Froment – The Art of Riding Bitless
Alizée Froment has shown like no other rider that it’s possible to use one’s seat in such a way that Grand Prix movements can be executed through bitless riding.
Preparing the Endurance Horse: Two Minds; One Vision
Nothing in life illustrates the human condition more profoundly than a person’s resilience—an individual’s ability to overcome the adversity they meet over the course of their life with grace; with fortitude.
Great Things Come to Those That Groom: The Necessity of Grooming Horses
There is a unique serenity that one experiences when grooming horses; a certain quiet, a certain calm. For many of us, this can be the most relaxing part of our day.
Save the Date: wehorse, Europe’s Leading Online Learning Platform for Equestrians, Celebrates North American Start with Live Online Festival on Sept 12, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Europe’s largest online learning platform for equestrians, wehorse, is hosting a live and interactive online festival on Sunday, September 12. This event
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.
Lunging Horses According to the Various Philosophies
If you are concerned with lunging your horse correctly, you will quickly encounter dogmatic disputes. With side reins or without, on the bit or not, with a bridle or a cavesson?
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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