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TRAINING

Beyond Pressure and Release: What Real Horsemanship Looks and Feels Like

By TheRidingInstructor 

By the time riders find their way to balanced horsemanship, many have already tried pressure-based techniques. Not because they set out to control or dominate—but because they weren’t shown another way. They were taught mechanical methods: drive the horse forward,

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