Rider's training: Tips and exercises to improve your riding position

The Rider's Seat

The Ultimate Guide to a Better Riding Seat!

The seat is important, versatile, changeable, and crucial in riding. It can be stable or flexible, secure or shaky, stiff or springy, harmonious or counterproductive.

Building Trust & Partnerships

Fear while riding: How to build trust in your horse again

Fear when riding develops quickly: one fall, one careless moment, and suddenly fear comes along for the ride. But it doesn’t have to stay that

Groundwork

The benefits of practicing groundwork with horses

Training with your horse on the ground is an important basis for horse and rider. We often tend to take the basics of working with

Dressage

The Benefits of Working with Long Reins

Working on long reins is a fascinating and supreme discipline of classical horse training. This requires a lot of trust between horses and humans because

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 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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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 Rider

The Ultimate Guide to a Better Riding Seat!

Fear while riding: How to build trust in your horse again

The benefits of practicing groundwork with horses

The Benefits of Working with Long Reins

What Riders Equipment Do You Need When Competing?

Fitness Training for Better Riding

Riding your Horse with Soft Hands

3 Tips for Better Timing of the Rider’s Aids

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

Staying Motivated when Training Horses: 5 Tips you Should Know About!

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

10 Exercises for Improving your Riding Seat

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