Category: Contact

  • Achieving Balance:

    Achieving Balance:

    This article delves into the crucial role of hands in horse-rider communication, emphasizing the importance of achieving balance, relaxation, and contact for effective riding. It discusses the impact of lateral and longitudinal imbalances, and the key steps in establishing a reliable partnership. The hands play a vital role in guiding,…

  • Opening the Poll

    Opening the Poll

    ON, IN FRONT OR BEHIND THE VERTICAL Often we see horses being ridden in a posture that is too ’round’, ‘curled under’ or ‘over-bent’. It may be due to lack of knowledge of how to work the horse correctly, or it can be the horse avoiding contact, trying to hide…

  • More inside leg… or neck reins?

    More inside leg… or neck reins?

    When a horse is ‘falling in’ on a circle or cutting corners, the common idea is: “more inside leg”. But often, this is not solving the problem, and can even make it worse, as horses tend to switch off to a constant nagging leg, and riders tend to ‘fall in’…