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Is it horse-friendly? Train your eye to recognize good horse training

It’s time to train your eye for horse-friendly training! There has been criticism of dressage for years, and not always without reason… All too often

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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.

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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.

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Interval Training for Horses: The Ultimate Guide

Nowadays interval training is used in many areas of equestrian, but most commonly in eventing and endurance. This is because high levels of stamina are required.

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The Ultimate Guide to Bridling Your Horse Correctly

Choosing the right tack for your horse is just as important as a regular dentist and farrier checkups because a non-fitting saddle or bridle can cause much damage to the horse.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The School of Légèreté: What Makes it so Special?

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

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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.

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Training Young Horses: Mounting for the First Time

This is Part 2 of young horse training at Gut Rothenkircherhof.

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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?

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Is it horse-friendly? Train your eye to recognize good horse training

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

Success is Just Around the Bend: Tips for Developing the Bending Dressage Horse

Interval Training for Horses: The Ultimate Guide

The Ultimate Guide to Bridling Your Horse Correctly

Preparing the Endurance Horse: Two Minds; One Vision

Introducing the Rider’s Aids to Young Horses

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

For All His Grace: Horse Movement & His Unique Gaits

Alizée Froment – The Art of Riding Bitless

The School of Légèreté: What Makes it so Special?

Basic Training of Young Horses: Lunging, Tying and Saddling for the First Time

Training Young Horses: Mounting for the First Time

Lunging Horses According to the Various Philosophies

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