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The Rider

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.

Basic Knowledge

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.

Basic Knowledge

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.

The Rider

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 Rider

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.

Basic Knowledge

Introducing the Rider’s Aids to Young Horses

The rider has three aids that connect him to his horse and that serve as means of communication: The leg aids, the weights aids and the rein aids.

Groundwork

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.

Disciplines

The Rider’s Position in Show Jumping

If you are ready to take your show jumping to the next level, you need to concentrate on your jumping positions. You need to master three jumping positions if you want to be a top contender in the ring.

Cross Country

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.

The Rider

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.

The Rider

3 Tips for Better Timing of the Rider’s Aids

Does it sometimes feel that no matter what you do, you just can’t seem to get your horse to understand what you want? You’re not alone!

Basic Knowledge

The Horse’s Canter – A Guideline on How to Ride and Improve

Find out about the biomechanics behind the canter of your horse and understand what to do in order to ride and sit the canter better and also how to improve this gait.

Disciplines

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.

Disciplines

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.

Basic Knowledge

The School of Légèreté: What Makes it so Special?

A dressage philosophy that emphasizes lightness. What do Philippe Karl and his students do differently?

Disciplines

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.

Disciplines

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!

Equipment

What Riders Equipment Do You Need When Competing?

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.

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.

Basic Knowledge

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.

Search Results for: riding seat

10 Exercises for Improving your Riding Seat

Alizée Froment – The Art of Riding Bitless

Forget the Saddle: The Advantages & the Art of Bareback Riding

Improving your Rider’s Position: How to Prevent the “Chair Seat”

Riding your Horse with Soft Hands

Introducing the Rider’s Aids to Young Horses

Keeping your Horse Motivated in Winter: Tips for Healthy Training

The Rider’s Position in Show Jumping

Jumping Cross Country: Chris Bartle’s Tips for a Safe Seat!

Fitness Training for Better Riding

3 Tips for Better Timing of the Rider’s Aids

The Horse’s Canter – A Guideline on How to Ride and Improve

Riding a Correct Dressage Halt: How to Score Points at Competitions

Mastering Competitions: Tips For Successful Dressage Tests

The School of Légèreté: What Makes it so Special?

4 Preparatory Exercises for your Jumping Horse

The Fundamentals of Driving in Equestrianism

What Riders Equipment Do You Need When Competing?

The Ultimate Guide to Show Jumping Competitions

Preparing the Endurance Horse: Two Minds; One Vision

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