basics – The Horse Magazine

Putting your horse on the bit

April 11th, 2022
It's a challenge every rider faces - putting you horse on the bit with Grand Prix rider / trainer / author, Jane Savoie. It's a step-by-step program to set you on the right path... Read Article Comments Off

Basics for Everyone with Christoph Hess

July 1st, 2021
Join a working session with Christoph Hess. Surprise, he works on the basics, and shows us a working session that will help us establish them. “It is easy to explain the theory, it is more important to see the theory in practice. We will see that 99% of problems are basic problems…” There didn’t seem […] Read Article 1 Comment »

Leg yielding – when, how and why – with Christian Theiss

April 20th, 2021
“The moment to begin to use leg yielding in your everyday preparation is when the inside leg of the horse is ready to carry more weight through the previous preparation performed on one track i.e. through properly executed turns (riding correctly and deep enough through corners) or circles of different sizes. The turn on the […] Read Article Comments Off

Giving through the poll – with Stefan Wolff

March 28th, 2021
“Tempo, activity, flexion. All the dynamics should work through the neck and culminate in the poll and bit.” “All the movement of that big body gets tunnelled through the little poll. That’s the important thing. That is why moving the nose left and right doesn’t help because if the target, that is the poll, keeps […] Read Article Comments Off