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Stop the Neck Rope Fad!
Neck Rope = Neck nerve Irritation by Rivkah Roth DO DNM When and Why did “dressage queens” start riding with a neck rope? Looking at this sketch, it doesn’t take much imagination to figure out why riding with a neck rope or neck ring is neither compassionate nor gentle. The neck ring irritates a horse’s Read more
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Ride for the Sake of the Horse — not Yours!
Don’t ride for the sake of riding, Ride to help your horse develop! by Rivkah Roth DO DNM “Like Rider like horse, like horse like rider” is a sentence I coined in the 1980s as an expression of the mutual influence on each other’s body, i.e. rider seat vs. horse movement and body use, and Read more
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Blue Tongues
Not the Problem but A Result! by Rivkah Roth DO DNM Blue tongues are unacceptable! And hiding them with contraptions, fluff, and the likes is not only unsportsmanlike, but tells about training shortcuts of horse and/or rider, or of total disrespect of the horse. Yet, blue tongues are not the original problem. They are almost Read more
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Focus on the Croup – not the Nose!
lowered Croup = nose in front of the Vertical High Croup = Nose behind the vertical by Rivkah Roth DO DNM Everybody understands that the nose behind the vertical shows bad riding or training. Yet, if we understand anatomy, physiology and biomechanics, we know that… only when the croup is lowered, can the nose come Read more
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The Failure of Dressage Judging
and how it may detrimentally influence today’s riding Style and training approaches. by Rivkah Roth DO DNM I have long said it, including postulating better eye schooling for the dressage judges and tips on how to get to a more correct eye in my reference handbook and teaching manual “A to Z Insights for Riders, Read more
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Eye Schooling
The dressage world is waking up by Rivkah Roth DO DNM A new generation of riders is looking to get trained along the classical criteria of systematic horse training as described by the Training Scale (Ausbildungsskala). Meanwhile, many of the international top riders still subscribe to shortcuts – possibly encouraged by dressage judges who fail Read more
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