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Single-Jointed Snaffle Wisdom

Slowly 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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Rider’s A to Z Mini-Glossary #1

25 Days, 25 Letters of the Alphabet… by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2020-02-20 on coachmetoo By popular demand we republish a Rider’s A to Z Glossary of technical terms; a more or less alphabetical Series of rider expressions that, in form of a Rider’s Advent Calendar, Rivkah Roth wrote for and posted on her…
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Canter Departure Quality

Predicts the quality of the flying changes by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-03-18 on coachmeto Advances level canter work stands and falls with the quality of your basic canter transitions. If your walk-canter departures are equally straight and balanced on either lead, chances are you will be able to master faultless flying changes in…
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The Six Trots that Nobody Rides and the One that Gets Everybody Nowhere

Know Your Trot! A Reminder for Riders, Trainers, and Judges by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-09-15 on coachmetoo For any rider and trainer, and in particular for dressage judges, to be able to recognize and understand the various forms of trot asked for in dressage is of penultimate importance. Yet, possibly because a rider’s…
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Show Season Preparation

Seat Exercises on the Longeline by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-03-23 on coachmetoo If you haven’t done so yet this winter it is time for a few weeks of intensive seat exercises and a major “tool building” refresher Performing seat exercises on the longe for an elastic and balanced, independent seat requires an highly…
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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

The 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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Rider Sin #1: Pulled-back Elbows

Or Why “We Can’t Ride on the Horse’s Head” by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-11-17 on coachmetoo A rider attempting to control the horse by its head – i.e. “hold” the horse by the bit, with running reins, or other contraptions – will fail because riding front-to-back is against the nature of our prey-animal…
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Schooling Transitions

Avoidable Pitfalls by Questioning All-Too Common Training Suggestions by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2018-12-31 on coachmetoo The value of riding transitions from gait to gait or within one gait in the schooling of our horses is unquestioned. Only correctly ridden transitions however fulfill our goal of producing a better balanced, sound and uphill horse.…
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Dressage for Jumping?

It’s all about correct basics by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2021-02-14 on coachmetoo A hundred years ago there was no such a thing as dressage or jumping. It simply was called riding or equestrian training. Gymnastic work, jumping, gallops on the race track, and outings on groomed trails and through natural forests and terrains…
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