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Home / 2012 / October

Archives for October 2012

Help For Unsteady Hands

by Wendy Murdoch

Help For Unsteady Hands

Do you have trouble keeping your hands steady? Does your instructor yell at you to keep your hands quiet? Do your hands move up and down as you post? Do you tend to drop one hand lower than the other? Unsteady hands are a major problem for many riders. Here are two suggestions to quickly improve your hand position.

Filed Under: Horseback Riding Video Lessons

Stop Pulling on Your Horse

by Wendy Murdoch

Stop Pulling on Your Horse

Do you pull on your horse’s mouth even though you know you shouldn’t? Does your instructor tell you to “give to your horse” all the time? Do you try to throw away the reins after you have used them in an attempt to stop yourself from pulling?

Filed Under: Horseback Riding Video Lessons

Finding Good Thigh Contact

by Wendy Murdoch

Finding Good Thigh Contact

Do you have trouble getting your horse to go forward? Do you bump or hit the front of your saddle with your pelvis? Do you feel insecure over the fences? The answer may be caused by not having good thigh contact with your horse and saddle.

Filed Under: Horseback Riding Video Lessons

Hands On Saddle Fitting

by Wendy Murdoch

Hands On Saddle Fitting

Does your horse show any of these signs? If so, a poorly fitting saddle may be the cause. 1) showing any objection to being saddled 2) being “cold-backed” during mounting 3) slow to warm up or relax 4) resistance to work 5) resistance to training aids 6) hock, stifle, or obscure hind limb lameness 7) […]

Filed Under: Related Equine Articles

Handling Those Show Jitters

by Wendy Murdoch

Handling Those Show Jitters

Have you ever sat ringside at a competition and watched  the competitors?  Some look like they are about to throw up just before they enter the ring.  Others look cool and calm, their dog is attentive and they are working as a team.  Have you ever dreamed of being like the calm cool type while […]

Filed Under: Related Equine Articles

Grounding

by Wendy Murdoch

Grounding

The last of the Centered Riding® Basics is Grounding. Sally Swift calls this the glue that binds the other Basics together.  The roots-of-the-tree image in the book, Centered Riding, illustrate Grounding. Grounding provides supple stability in riding while lengthening provides the power. (We will leave lengthening for later. Without Grounding you can’t lengthen.) Grounding is […]

Filed Under: Related Equine Articles

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