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A loose curb chain means the curb is not as stable as it should be (it should prevent the bit from going more than 45 degrees/preferably less); if the chain is too loose a port can come forward into the palette or it is simply too much onto the jaw, so the horse opens the mouth. A thick or short cur...

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Try turning your thumb outward (fingers up), that closes your upper arm to the trunk. And think about the upper elbow almost behind your trunk. If you are ending up using the outside rein too much, try a driving reinhold instead perhaps. mho

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Bouncing up and down has to do with the balance (ie like tapping on top of the croup). Horses 'spin out' behind when they are over postioned laterally, sort of like a motor boat.

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I totally disagree that the horse's ability is necessarily seen before that exercise is developed. There are horses that actually need piaffe in order to develop correctly. The croup lowers because the joints learn to all flex, because of axial rotation, and because of a properly developed shortened...

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A horse which goes balancee (side to side either in front or behind) is too compressed, usually onto the forehand. The movement has to go somewhere to it goes out to the side. And over time horses which are balancee behind usually become base narrow in the front. A horse which bounces up usually hav...

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Heddy you can have our rain, we are having November RAIN, not just showers. LAKES.

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The difficulty of extension in walk is keeping the connection and extending the stride. It should NOT just be a game of who has the most o.s., and very big walks are often very difficult to collect with properly folded joints. As in all lengthening of the outline, the horse should seek the hard and ...

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A horse should be allowed to bascule/telescope within the walk. The horse in that video is pecking/nodding up and down, and for me is over tempo, but with overstride, yes. Interestingly enough when the horse (at about 2:30) goes to collected it merely shortens but is not collected.

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Who is pledged to protect the horse/the rules? The judges/TDs and the teachers/trainers. When they don't, then it is incumbent upon all horsemen to do so. And that, on most social media, has been the point. It is not the rider per se, it is the score given (esp the rider score) as well. This has to ...

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(The Hampton classic rider was suspended and fined $5000.) The Del mar rider has her own agency, it's not outing, it's pretty easy to investigate. For me, it is the judging criteria is what must be under serious scrutiny. Meanwhile, who protects the horses???

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The score given for the test was over sufficient, the rider in the first test whipped one handed at X, and I have seen tests like this (at a higher level) and it was usually the TD who eliminated the rider for abuse (sadly, not the judges), who have even higher scores than this one (simply because t...

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The thing is there is already different types of qualification, ie to go to finals, qualifying to do freestyles, and in getting 'medals'. The question are they high enough? And by those standards the lady in question would have qualified to move up with 60s+. What is problematic is the scores being ...

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Consider what happens when there are the various problems. If the rider gets TOF, then there is too much inside rein and too little outside connection, and perhaps too much inside leg. If there is rein back then the hands are overwhelming the energy. There is no impulsion in walk, because there is n...

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Oh my goodness Phoenix... my puppy is loving his treats, my tree is decorated with my frog prince, I have enjoyed my yummy marzipan, and am reading my book, and enjoyed by gardenia oil. Thank you so very much. Hope ya' all had a merry xmas.

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The thing is bucking straps are usually padded with wool, and even if leather, it is to irritate not be painful. For 8-10 seconds. And most horses dont buck for more than a season. And back straps on a (roping) saddle are loose, and have little effect. mho

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The bucking straps are usually covered with wool nowadays, but it is (somewhat) tight for about 10 seconds, and the usually bucking life of a bronc (before he goes to be a working horse on a ranch) is about a season.

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Glad u like it!!!!

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Can people post whether they received their Kringle gifts?

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(Has the kringle stuff been sent out??)

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Margaret Cabel Self's Horsemanship. https://www.amazon.com/Horsemanship-Met ... rsemanship

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am doing one as well....

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So, since she works with Brad, the question is what you are doing differently than him. Leaning forward (sounds like a big contender, its like having a stack of books fall forward, and a greener horse will stop moving with that), gripping with the leg rather than being passive, there is something di...

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Ivetta Harte

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I like german girls Nichole, Melanie Bulmahn and Sabine Mosen. They are the most articulate and easier to understand, stress equation/timing most effectively, as well as a methodology. mho

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(And the SEC was hacked at relatively the same time....)

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Forward is used interchangeably too often, it is a direction, but has been mixed up with impulsion. And too many when ask to ride forward simply accelerate the speed (often to defeat resistance). And speed is the enemy of impulsion. Willingness to choose forward is not (just) a desire, it is the res...

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Kande, of course it will work with minor progression (action of body of handler/etc) the more clearly the horse is introduced and the concept has follow through initially. It is still the idea behind it.

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The handler (on the ground) starts with work in hand (i.e. a mobile turn on the forehand works well). The progression is touch/vibrate lightly and faster/and thwack. If the horse were to kick after the whip that is met with a biting actions. If the reacts, it is rewarded (stand/stoke/etc). (But prev...

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Love my Sergio Grasso, look like 'real boots' and last well.

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MC, sadly, yes. The age of in-depth substantive education (per the directives) in training methodologies seems abandoned, and not worth discussion. It is about appearances.

Ryeissa, who do you think fulfill those things?

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If a horse does a pesade rather than levade then it is not a good example either. The thing is if the horse is properly collected then it also produces correct extension as well, and is laterally flexible. Horses do have specialities/strengths, but purity and balance should come first. One can certa...

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Until the 'plates' can be part of each hoof, rather than on a plate under the horse, such studies are often problematic (GIGO). So, it really isn't proving what is correct, but simply what IS. In order to be of value the piaffe studies need to be of horses which are agreed on as exemplary rather tha...

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There are many PNW places to advertise (which the listing agent should know about). And http://www.buyhorseproperties.com is great too. You need a new agent if they are not working it. mho

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Just ride with a driving rein hold, allowable and actually gives more control in any ways. Ridden with splinted fingers (from shattered/dislocated/broken ones).

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A couple of things: make sure the horse is more forward (think medium canter since the standard of collection is reduced for changes), and keep the horse up and open. Also, do counter canter and change at the end of a long side; or even do changes from true canter to cc at the end of a longside (als...

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Jan, what Epson Printer do you have? What is the largest format it will print? Cost per (large) print.

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I have plan F through Mutual of Omaha (its 170$, and picks up the 20% that isn't covered) and my part D is $12 a month (through Humana but applies to purchases through Walmart :-( ). Most everything has been paid except some chiro visits, and I had open heart quadruple bypass this spring (no high bl...

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For what it is worth (from taking thousands of photos) ground lines also have to do with where in the arena the photo is taken, a horse at a center line taken from the front, will have a ground line which appears tilted, but it is not. And actually making it horizontal will not tell the true story. ...

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Indeed, the shoulders down and back are part of that (just as in the photo of Waetjen with the reins in one hand dropped down) issue, but for sure any resistance to any loss of balance is the posture of the rider, not in the arms.

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Imho a rider can never learn to really connect the seat to the hand if the upper arms do not function as part of the trunk.That does not meant that one does not allow bascule (in jumping with auto release, or in the following of the bascule in walk and and canter, or in going fdo). The more the uppe...

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One can adjust the reins with the elbows at the sides, most especially on a circle, with just the fingers (or keep the thumbs on the bight of the reins to prevent it being lost in the first place). When gathering up the reins in the first place (standing still), it is keep the elbow on the side, tak...

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Most of the time an instructor says "shorten your reins" it is because the student has not maintained a connection, and almost always the rider shortens the reins but lengthens the arms (takes the upper arm away from the trunk forward), and that changes nothing. As far as uberstreichen, gi...

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For me I also train progressively which I was taught was lungeing (perhaps with a dumb jockey or etc), double lungeing, and basic bending on a large circle so as to have one step like another. Then when they are mounted they have a basic idea of what will be asked and how to manage a rider's weight....

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I kept them, never had menopause symptoms (except for the month they gave hormones before the hysterectomy). Which I had had it done far earlier.

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Since my primary work in hand was german (and for starting horses), so I think we are very close. For sure it highlighted mobility of the jaw, an upright posture in which the horse sought the hand, and remained ifV. And it required in depth knowledge of the effects of the bits, the 8 rein holds, and...

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(The discussion was about what the contact produced in the development of power, and that refers back to reins/contact and comes from the positioning of the rider.)

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I have a question: isn't power supposed to give fold the hind leg joints more and produce amplitude (in collection airtime, in extension huge ground covering)? If that where true why wouldn't the extensions of such 'power ridden horses' (which are being compressed in the neck and ridden with torqued...

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