Getting a Handle on Rearing and Bucking: A Time and a Place for Everything
What actually causes horse rearing and bucking? What triggers or causes these behaviors to occur, and are they as exciting as they are depicted to be?
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Flexion and Bend – Why is it so important in riding?
The basis for all riding: without flexion there is no bend, and without bending there is no straightening and gymnastics. So it’s important to learn
What Riders Equipment Do You Need When Competing?
While rules can be quite relaxed when you are just competing against friends, when you start competing at a more serious level, you need the right equipment.
The Walk of your Horse: An Underestimated Gait
In this article you will find out why paying more attention to your training in walk will help your riding, with the likelihood of making more advanced movements easier to ask for and achieve.
Loading Horses in the Trailer: A Step By Step Approach
Imagine your friend leading you up to a porta-potty-sized box, and telling you to get in. What would you say? How might you feel? What would you be thinking? And most importantly, would you get in?
Mastering Flying Changes
Flying changes are either inevitable in the jumping course or the next step to a more advanced dressage level. Either way, it is a wonderful feeling for the rider when the horse changes leads in canter by jumping energetic and powerful into the new direction.
Keeping your Horse Motivated in Winter: Tips for Healthy Training
Here are tips to help you get through winter whilst keeping your horse happy, healthy and sound. The appropriate warm-up, the right care as well as what you feed all have an impact on your horse in winter.
Course jumping: 4 preparatory exercises for success
Preparation is half the battle – this also applies to jumping courses. Just going for it is not the right strategy here. It’s safer and
Equine First Aid: Caring for your Horse’s Wounds
Injuries and ailments can – literally – get under your horse’s skin. These are often associated with side effects that affect not only the horse’s appearance, which makes good horse wound care all the more important.
Groundwork: Introducing your Horse to In-Hand Exercises
As an introduction, here are three tips from Kathrin Roida on how you can exercise your horse, for both beginners and advanced riders.
10 Facts About Working Equitation
In this article dedicated to Working Equitation, German high-level rider Birte Ostwald explains what makes this discipline so fascinating. You’ll learn how it works.
Training Young Horses: Mounting for the First Time
This is Part 2 of young horse training at Gut Rothenkircherhof.
3 Cavaletti Exercises for your Horse
Cavaletti exercises are a great opportunity for horses of all ages and levels to get in some gymnastic work.
