Iris | May 11, 2010
When you start a horse, it is a very good idea to longe a horse first for a while until the back is stronger and more capable of carrying a person. When you start longeing your horse, the horse is still very untrained (obviously) and we tend to forget sometimes that going in circles is [...]
Iris | April 23, 2010
Baucher said “make yourself understood and let it happen”. Ask and then let the horse do it without you interfering anymore. What we see a lot in ‘modern’ dressage is the legs, always the legs… “The horse needs to be forward, so give leg”… “On the circle the horse needs to bend, so give leg”… [...]
Iris | March 14, 2010
If you want to work your horse, he needs to be forward, in longeing and in riding. But ‘forward’ is often misunderstood… A horse being ‘forward’ does not necessarily have something to do with speed, actually, it might be better to say it does not have anything to do with speed, other than that a [...]
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