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Contact can often look effortless for some horses and riders. And yet, for many other riders, consistent contact can seem like an enigma. Any efforts at consistency tend to lead to heaviness. Or a complete lack of any contact!  So where is this fine line between consistent, quality contact and washing lines?

In order to develop contact with your horse, I feel that you must first understand what a 'good' contact is. This can often be confusing for many riders, so let's start there...

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Creating Consistent Contact

As you begin working on this with your horse the next time you ride, remember that contact must be developed over time. Both you and your horse must have the necessary strength and development physically and mentally in order to maintain true contact.

There are numerous audio horse riding lessons available to you inside of Connection that you can use to create this with your horse. Get started working on this today by joining HERE

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• Free Half Halt Audio Horse Riding Lesson
• Improve Your Canter 4-Week Program
• Mindset & Fitness for Equestrians
• Virtual Stable Lounge for Riders Working Alone or with OTTBs

So you are a place in your canter where you want to begin to do a little ‘more’.  After a quick ‘google’ of all the different exercises, you see a canter to walk pop up a few times. Canter to walk?! Without a handbrake?!  Yes, and even better, this will begin to prepare you and your horse for so much more to come. 

The canter to walk transition can seem daunting when we begin to think about it first. However, once you and your horse have begun working successfully in a few key areas, it does not have to be as complicated as maybe you believe it is.

The First Few Canter to Walk Transitions

So, before we go any further with this, I feel that it’s important to realize that the first few transitions probably won’t be your best work!  It is completely normal for your horse to include a few, usually wobbly, steps of trot in before he reaches walk. This is okay.

Very often, the first few attempts at the canter to walk, even with all of the preparations, can look and feel a little like a child learning to walk!  Hesitant, unbalanced, and looking for support.

Keep in mind that canter to walk is not something your horse will do a lot by himself.  And going direct from canter to a balanced, rhythmic walk is definitely not something you will see happening among horses in a field! 

This can mean that you will have to both explain and encourage your horse to perform this transition. And, depending on where you are in your training, that may take some time.

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Free Half Halt Riding Lesson

If the canter to walk seems a little too daunting, I would love to help you begin seeing changes where you are right now in your riding. The half halt is the perfect place to begin this process. You can begin today by signing up for my free audio horse riding lesson on the topic.

Created so that you can listen while you ride; you and your horse together, this training will help both you and your horse become more responsive and ‘working together’.

Get your free audio horse riding lesson HERE

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• Join Connection today and transform your riding journey
• Improve Your Canter – 4 Week Program
• Online community for equestrians working on their mindset & Fitness
• Online Community for equestrians focusing on re-schooling horses (and ex-racehorse

Are all the months starting to look and feel the same for you and your horse? Especially if you have been training your horse alone! Have you been experiencing a case of ‘same ride again’ on repeat, over and over again? 

If so, here are 5 tips to help you to achieve more when training your horse.  Especially if you are working alone without a trainer or a coach to help.

More Success When Training Your Horse Alone

Let’s be honest here, we all want ‘more’.  We want to do things in as little time as possible, and in the easiest way possible as well.  And while the following pointers will certainly help you to do this, it is also really important to remember 2 other key ingredients when training horses.

You must factor in time and consistency when working with your horse. If either one of those is missing, any results you achieve will most likely be short-term.

So, while you begin working and using the following formula for each training session, make sure you are coupling it with those two most important of important elements as well.

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• Join Connection today and transform your riding journey
• Improve Your Canter – 4 Week Program
• Online community for equestrians working on their mindset & fitness
• Online Community for equestrians focusing on re-schooling horses (and ex-racehorse

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• Finding the Gaps in Your Horses Training
• Strategically Using Your Time to Train Your Horse
• Retraining Your Horse Versus Training Your Horse
• Work Your Horse in 20 Minutes or Less

Every time you interact with your horse, there is the possibility of improving your communication and understanding.  However, planning and intention must be present for each ride to be an actual stepping stone.  Having one without the other will not give you the outcome you are hoping for.

Creating the plan and setting the intention is key to each ride becoming a valuable link in the chain of progress as you train your horse.

And this begins with you deciding where you are going and how you want to get there...

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• Daily Strides Premium Newsletter
• Online community for equestrians working on their mindset & Fitness
• Online Community for equestrians focusing on re-schooling horses (and ex-racehorse riders

I find it a little mind-boggling how, the longer we spend developing ourselves as riders, the more we need to unlearn. Especially when it comes to those first one or two initial horse riding lessons!

Using your hands and arms to 'steer' the horse is one of those things. And, flexion is often one of the best concepts to help riders become clearer on this. And more open to other possibilities when it comes to their aids, their riding, and steering their horse.

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• Online Community for equestrians focusing on re-schooling horses (and ex-racehorse riders)

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• Understanding Inside and Outside in Your Riding
• Turning Your Horse Versus Asking Your Horse to Turn
• Creating Space for Better Canter Transitions
• How to Ride a Circle with Your Horse
• Riding Through a Bend; Understanding Your Role
• Weight Aids and Seat Bones for Turning and Bending
• Asking Your Horse to Bend

Have you noticed how, for many people, the longer they spend in the saddle, the less curious they become about a lot of things ‘riding related’? Now, other riders are the exact opposite, they want to go deeper and further in all aspects of riding. Which is fantastic.

If you have found yourself doing something for the sake of just doing something with your horse, I want to challenge you today.

I want to give you a simple, extremely powerful way to both gain clarity, and assess yourself while you ride.

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Get Support & Guidance in Your Riding

• Join Connection today and transform your riding journey
• Daily Strides Premium Newsletter
• Online community for equestrians working on their mindset & Fitness
• Online Community for equestrians focusing on re-schooling horses (and ex-racehorse

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• Your Mindset; What Do You Believe About Your Riding?
• Top 4 Mindset Myths that Hold Rider’s Back
• Reflecting and Moving Forward in Your Riding
• Position Faults that are Potentially Holding You Back in Your Riding

It can be frustrating when you know exactly what you want to achieve when training or retraining your horse, but it seems to be taking ‘forever’!  It seems that no matter how much you explain your horse, he’s not ‘getting it’.

Training or retraining your horse is something that takes time.  And, sometimes, it is our own impatience or actions that actually keep things stuck where progress is concerned. 

Today I want to cover the 4 most common causes that may cause you to become a little stuck when training or retaining your horse.

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More on This Topic

• Putting All the Pieces Together When Training Your Horse
• Retraining Your Horse Versus Training Your Horse
• The Training Scale for You and Your Horse

More Training & Support

• Free Planner for Training Your Horse
• FREE AUDIO TRAINING ON THE HALF HALT
• Join Connection for Step by Step Audio Horse Riding Lessons
• Mindset & Fitness for Equestrians
• Virtual Stable Lounge for Riders Working Alone or with OTTBs

Anyone who has ridden in an arena for a prolonged period knows how different the energy feels when they finally get out on the trail.  What may have been feeling a little flat and, even, deflated, suddenly comes back to life.  Both horse and rider seem to become more keenly self-aware.  And more responsive to external elements.

Rather than being afraid of this energy or worried about it, you can rather begin to intentionally channel that energy to improving your training & riding. 

By strategically channeling this energy, you can actually use your hacking or time out on the trail to actually improve things. Both you and your horse can positively influence your training and development.  And, then return to the arena with a greater understanding of the different questions.

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More Training & Support

• FREE AUDIO TRAINING ON THE HALF HALT
• Join Connection for Step by Step Audio Horse Riding Lessons
• Mindset & Fitness for Equestrians
• Virtual Stable Lounge for Riders Working Alone or with OTTBs

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• Your Aids to Ride the Half Halt
• 3 Ways to Use the Half Halt In Your Riding
• What Not to Do When Riding a Fresh Horse

Jumping is one of those things most riders love or hate.  In my experience, their personal preferences depend on how well they can use the space between jumps. If every jumping track feels like a tug of war from start to finish, it’s easy to see how jumping itself won’t be all that enjoyable.  The same applies if the rider feels like they are doing the work for both themselves and their very uninterested, laid-back, and uninspired horse!

One of the best ways to improve your jumping is to work on the space between jumps. This will improve the overall experience for both horse and rider…

But simply saying the space between jumps can sound a little overwhelming.  After all, we really are only ‘jumping’ for a tiny amount of time.  The rest is spent working inside of this ‘space’. I think there are a few key areas you can begin to improve, to help both you and your horse get more out of working over fences.

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More Training & Support

• Free Half Halt Audio Training
• Join Connection for Step by Step Audio Horse Riding Lessons
• Mindset & Fitness for Equestrians
• Virtual Stable Lounge for Riders Working Alone or with OTTBs

More On This Topic:-

• Confidently Getting Started Over Jumps
• Retraining a Horse that is Rushing Jumps
• Staying With Your Horse Over Jumps
• Learning to Wait for the Jump
• Reforming a Horse with a Habit of Running Out
• Riding a Horse with a ‘Chip In’ Habit at Take Off

It’s probably safe to assume that you want to improve as a rider, right? That, if becoming a better rider in 90 days was guaranteed, you’d probably follow the plan and do the work?  Well, the good news is that, regardless of where you are in your riding right now, you can indeed improve over the coming 90 days (or 3 months).  However, it will involve a little planning, preparation, and commitment in order to make it all happen.

Using the previous 90 days in your riding to create a plan to improve over the coming 90 days is a fantastic way to continue to make progress as a rider.

However, it will require a little work upfront in both reviewing and planning.  Looking back at what happened and then using that information to make better decisions and take better actions going forward is where it all begins.  So that being said… Let’s dive into your past 90 days and see what you can learn that will kickstart the coming 90 and help you become a better rider.

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Here’s a confession; for years I used to think of cantering while on the lunge as just something I did to ‘finish the session’. It was like something that I could check off a list. There was no intention behind it (only to get it done),

And with any cantering happening while on the lunge, there was definitely no thought put into using the time or gait to develop the horse.

Which, now, seems so bizarre! Why would I have even bothered with it when there was no set focus or intention?! It really does seem like madness; except for one thing…

Every week, I see so many riders making the same mistake. Cantering endless circles while on the lunge – without a single thought about why and what it might achieve or work towards…

Transitioning Into the Canter

Let’s start at the beginning with this one. I love thinking about the similarities between what happens when riding and what happens when lunging. Meaning, if you were to ride a ‘good’ transition from trot to canter, what would you consider before ‘asking’?

The transition into canter will only be as good as the quality of the trot asking for it – and the quality of the preparations for the ‘ask’.

Meaning that the trot must be moving forwards, not running. And the rider (the lunger) must invest a little time, energy, and focus in preparation for the transition itself.

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What’s the vegan stance on horseback riding? A complex subject with many facets, horse riding is a controversial topic within the animal rights community. What’s the bottom line on riding horses: cruelty or companionship? By Emily Moran Barwick at BiteSizeVegan.org.

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It can seem like something that only novice or beginner riders would worry themselves with; revisiting the basics.  After all, surely there's a point where, as riders, we can 'set and forget' a couple of things in our riding? Basics like position and the aids.  Or trotting and cantering...

And I think a lot of this stems from the fact that we see the basics as being, somehow, for beginners.  For riders who are only just getting started on their journey.  Surely not riders who have been hard at work for 5, 10, 40 years... Or riders who are competing at high levels. 

And yet, if riders could begin to swap out the word 'basics' and replace it with the 'essential foundations for the current level of work or development', revisiting those old places, from this 'new level', wouldn't seem so bad after all, would it?

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More on this Topic:-

• Join Connection today and transform your riding journey
• Putting 1 Basic on Autopilot This Month in Your Riding
• Returning to Riding - Focusing on the Basics
• What are the Basics when it Comes to Riding
• The Importance of Correcting and Perfecting the Basics in Your Riding
• Start with the Basics in Order to Build Confidence
• Returning to Riding (Basics on Autopilot) Program
• Online community for equestrians working on their mindset & fitness
• Online Community for equestrians focusing on re-schooling horses (and ex-racehorse

Intentionally mixing cantering and lunging together is not for the faint of heart!  It often requires nerves of steel – especially at the beginning of the journey…

Do you have days where, after you get home, sit down, and think over the day’s events, you think to yourself “Why did I react like that?!”?  I know I do, even now.  I find that if I allow my emotions to run things, the chances of everything turning out exactly as I would have two chances. Slim and none!  This is why I began, a few years ago now, creating planned responses in my riding.

Simply put, I began thinking about what ‘could’ or ‘might’ happen… And how the ‘best version’ of me would respond in the moment to the situation. 

Being able to think about what I would like any outcome to be and then plan, in advance, the best response to achieve this changed everything. It meant that I didn’t have to necessarily change ‘me’, I can still have the same emotional response.  However, I also know what actions I want to take in order to deal with the situation.

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More on this Topic:-

• Fit for Riding; Fit for Life 2022 Free Plan for Equestrians
• Reacting Versus Responding in Your Riding
• How Your Stories are Influencing Your Horse Riding
• 5 Actions to Your ‘Better Person’ in Your Riding
• Riding and Acting – The Relationship Between Them
• Your Mindset; What Do You Believe About Your Riding
• Connection; My Online Membership for Equestrians
• Online community for equestrians working on their mindset & fitness
• Online Community for equestrians focusing on re-schooling horses (and ex-racehorses

There are some things that many of us simply accept in life.  Rainy days. Horsehair is everywhere in Spring. The rhythm in the canter.  And yet, while we cannot change the weather (okay, debatable) and we definitely cannot get around the necessary loss of the winter coat…

The Rhythm in the canter is definitely something we can have a more positive influence over when we ride – rather than simply accepting what is. 

And yet, it can seem daunting! Many riders find that when they attempt to begin doing this, they tend to lose the canter altogether.  They quickly find themselves back in the trot.  Or the canter has lost its 3 beat sequence – so it’s technically no longer a canter!

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More Episodes on This Topic:-

• Fit for Riding; Fit for Life 2022 Free Plan for Equestrians
• Syncing Your Seat in the Canter with Your Horse
• Rhythm; Learning to Identify and Develop It In the Canter
• Developing Your Seat in the Canter
• Connection; My Online Membership for Equestrians
• Online community for equestrians working on their mindset & fitness
• Online Community for equestrians focusing on re-schooling horses (and ex-racehorses

Isn’t it amazing how so many riders just seem to ‘know’ what will happen each time they ride? They have certain expectations that, almost magically, seem to always come true for them. Unfortunately, the keywords in that sentence are ‘for them’.

I see time and again how riders, regardless of what is really happening, will define each ride based on their beliefs and expectations.

And, for most of these riders, these beliefs and expectations are simply untrue or unrealistic.  Meaning that they are creating a cycle where they simply repeat the same ride, the same month, the same year, over and over again with their horse.

And all because they are unaware of how much their expectations are impacting their outcome.

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Additional Resources to Help Riders

• Fit for Riding; Fit for Life 2022 Free Plan
• 3 Things to Work on To Become a Better Rider
• Transforming the Next 12 Weeks in Your Riding
• Your Mindset; What Do You Believe About Your Riding
• Connection; My Online Membership for Equestrians
• Online community for equestrians working on their mindset & fitness
• Online Community for equestrians focusing on re-schooling horses (and ex-racehorses

 

All riders can be put into one of two categories when it comes to the canter… Those who can move their seat in the canter with their horse – and those who can’t. This is a bitter pill to swallow for those on the ‘can’t’ side of the fence.  And yet, it is something that they would secretly love to be able to do.

Having the ability to control your seat in the canter completely changes how much influence you have in the gait – and it is a lot more comfortable. 

So, if you’ve been stuck in the ‘can’t’ camp for longer than you would like, this is how to finally move forwards into the ‘can’ camp…

It’s All About Practice

And not just any old practice.  I am talking perfect practice.  Doing the same, middle-of-the-road things over and over again, hoping for a different result is madness.  Rather spend less time, but more intention and focus in order to make your practice work for you.

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More Help on This Topic:-

• • • FREE Download:- 1 Exercise Multiple Ways
    • Fit for Riding; Fit for Life 2022 Free Plan
    • 4 Steps to a More Comfortable Canter
    • Developing Your Seat in the Canter
    • Timing Your Transition into Canter
    • Rhythm; Learning to Identify and Develop it in the Canter 
    • Join Connection; The Online Membership for Equestrians
    • Online Community for Equestrian focusing on Planning and Mindset
    • Lunging for Riding

Ok, desensitising can be a bit of a taboo word in the compassionate horsemanship realm BUT I want to explain why I use that term and why I actually love desensitising, which is why I decided to create this episode!

Listen in to hear about:

• What desensitising IS and ISN'T
• The benefits if done correctly and why you should consider adding it to your training regime
• How to get started with your horse
• Working with horses that have established fears vs those that don't 

Prevention from big fear-inducing situations is better than cure and in my opinion, desensitising in a controlled environment first can help you do that. 

We owe it to our horses to best prepare them for our human world. Their flight response can only get them so far and sometimes it isn't enough to help them or keep us safe. 

There is a better way and I want you to feel empowered to prepare your horse for ANY environment because you can!