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 Spatial Awareness in Your Beginner Riding Lessons

Spatial awareness is a persons ability to be aware of their body in a space and how it relates to other things in that space. When your new

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Show Me that You’re Ready To Canter

When is a rider ready to canter? A reader commented that students she was teaching at summer camp were pushy about wanting to canter and were unable to assess their own riding

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The First Three Riding Lessons

I make no bones about being an advocate for instructors of beginning riders. It’s because I firmly believe that you can lay so good a foundation for your

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“Get Those Heels Down!” part 1

“Keep your heels DOWN!” What rider hasn’t heard this a multitude of times? And what riding instructor hasn’t said this to the point of near despair? That one

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