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Ride for the Sake of the Horse — not Yours!
Read more: 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…
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Focus on the Croup – not the Nose!
Read more: 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…
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The Failure of Dressage Judging
Read more: The Failure of Dressage Judgingand 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,…
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Rider’s A to Z Mini-Glossary #1
Read more: Rider’s A to Z Mini-Glossary #125 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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Show Season Preparation
Read more: Show Season PreparationSeat 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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Rider Sin #1: Pulled-back Elbows
Read more: Rider Sin #1: Pulled-back ElbowsOr 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…
Old and New Dressage Concepts and Questions for Riders, Trainers, and Coaches
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