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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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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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Unfortunate Developments in Dressage

Could they be partially Saddle Related? by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-09-01 on coachmetoo Emotions are flying high when and where it comes to the competitive aspects of dressage. On one side, there are spectators hungry for circuslike displays of bigger-is-better movement excitement. These include horsy and non-horsy admirers of our field that is…
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Straightness

Why you May Have it All Wrong “Straight” is not “|” Straight, but “)” = “(” Even Bend by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2016-11-08 on coachmetoo Ever since Prussian dressage master Gustav Steinbrecht (1808 to 1885) demanded, “reite Dein Pferd vorwaerts und richte es gerade” – usually translated into English way-off-the-mark as, “ride your…
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Training Knows No Shortcuts

From ill-proportioned 3 Year Old into an Elegant 6 Year Old or a Wreck by Rivkah Roth DO DNM first published 2018-11-03 on coachmetoo What we do with a horse between age three and six determines health or unsoundness of the horse’s body and mind for the rest of its life. Facilitating to the degree…
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