Should You Strive to Ride with the Elite?

Riding with the Elite There has been a post going around Facebook “On the Insane Expense that has become Riding.” Not being a Facebook whiz I’m not sure

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Teach Your Riding Students to Be Assertive| Assertiveness

Assertiveness comes naturally to some individuals while others must learn this helpful quality. What do you do with the student who just doesn’t seem to try very hard

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Where’s the Love?

Jumper loves attention.  He tries so hard to be good and wants you to love him so badly that when you go in to his pen he just

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Keep Student/Riding Instructor Relationships Healthy with Boundaries

Riding instructors are in a unique position when it comes to relationships with clientele. ​You're require​d to teach athletics, art, fitness, and theory all at one time while

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Wear a Riding Helmet Even If Parelli Doesn’t

She’d taken the polo pony out for a trail ride when the mare bolted toward home. As the mare made a sharp right down the lane at a

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Teach Horseback Riders to Use Their Head

The Rider's Head Riding a horse with your head can have a lot of different meanings. In one sense, it says “be a thinking rider.” While I totally

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Improve Your Posture, Improve Your Riding

Posture is a Connection Between Time On and Off of the Horse I'd love to get students to connect their riding goals to the things they do every

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The Base of Support for Good Horsemanship

Base of support contains the first building blocks of good riding, but the components of base of support changes according to what type of riding you are doing.The

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Fiction, Websites, & The Riding Instructor

Taking the plunge of publishing a first full length fiction is a huge event for an author, so I decided to use the opportunity to tell you how

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Teach Riders Good Balance on the Horse

It's All About Balance That's a loaded statement because it covers sooo many areas of our lives.  Today I'm talking specifically about the rider's balance on the horse​,

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