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Do More with Less
“You need to do less sooner, you are always doing too much late” – Ray Hunt That little saying may seem obvious to some, but it is far more challenging than you might imagine. Horses and humans don’t think along the same lines at all. Horses have no conception of time, humans live and die…
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Snaffle Bits
Have you ever looked at a snaffle bit and wondered how it fits into a horse’s mouth and what effect it has when you pull on it? Snaffle bits are generally considered to be one of the kindest bits you can use, and that may be the case in the right hands but most riders…
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Mechanical versus feel
Every action we make in developing a skill or an art starts out as a mechanical action. Bruce Lee once said: “Before I learned martial arts, a punch was just a punch, and a kick was just a kick. When I studied martial arts, a punch was no longer just a punch and a kick was no longer just a kick. But now that I…