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Blue Tongues
Read more: Blue TonguesNot 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…
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Single-Jointed Snaffle Wisdom
Read more: Single-Jointed Snaffle WisdomSlowly Disappearing Knowledge by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2021-05-06 on coachmetoo Bits come in all kinds of materials and shapes. Here we will only mention a few, perhaps less commonly considered aspects. Often the less experienced and less educated rider resorts to harsher bits for control. This is a highly misguided attitude. The bit…
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The Rider’s Hand
Read more: The Rider’s Hand(Not) for Debate – and not just for DQs: “Close your hand!” by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2015-01-16 on my Equiopathy facebook page and prompted by a paper linked to by that post. Equiopathy questioned: exactly, how?… and why? There is a lot more to closing a hand than simply a broad-statement request. 1)…
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Rider Sin #2: Thumbs up
Read more: Rider Sin #2: Thumbs upThe One Place where Thumbs Up are Unwanted! by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-11-21 on coachmetoo But that is exactly what I see more and more riders do in dressage and jumping. And it is so wrong on many levels. Growing up in a classically correct training environment it never occurred to me that…
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