Training functional movement and functional posture take time. It takes the time it takes for each individual horse. Don’t compare your hor

If your hands are too busy, the horse can’t hear the rest of your aids.

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Are you listening to your horse?

Teaching Takeaways

Our horse can’t advance forward in functional movement, with functional posture, if we are pulling on the reins.

Many times our horses need the opposite of what our brain and body want to do. A good portion of riding is overcoming what our body wants to do for the betterment of our horse.

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Part of enjoying horses means feeling safe while we are on them. Let me just say that riding a 1/2 ton prey animal is never 💯 safe. But there are some ways we get ourselves into trouble.

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Don’t train weakness. I don’t believe any of us intentionally do this but by not riding with intention we inadvertently do it. So what does unintentionally training weakness look like? Here are some phrases you may find yourself using when you unintentionally train weakness.

I just spent two fabulous days learning! I’m super exhausted so this will be short. But expect some detailed posts coming up as I recover from surgery.

They talk to us. We need to be more educated listeners.

Work that walk. The spine is very mobile in the walk. We can have a lot of influence in the spine good and bad. If we don’t pay attention to straightness, bend, activity in the walk, the rest of our gaits will suffer. The muscles need to be recruited at the walk to be used effectively in trot and canter.

There is no “winning” or “losing” in horse education. There is no “war” or “battle” to win. When we have this type of mindset while educating our horses, we are ultimately setting ourselves up for failure.

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The expense of tack. It’s easy to buy cheap. But it isn’t always what is best for your horse. We are asking our horses to do a job they were not built for. It is, therefore, our job to keep them comfortable.

Have a horse with a bad experience? Hard to load? Have a horse you have to force in and slam the door?

Short term gratification can often have long term negative implications. Don’t ignore the problem just because the judge is watching.

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