Iris | May 27, 2010
Big misunderstanding in Dressage world is the term ‘on the bit’. What does this imply, ‘on the bit’? First of all the term has the word ‘bit’ in it so it starts with giving the assumption you need a bit. Then with that it actually also gives the assumption that the ‘bit’ is active in [...]
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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