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"How Long Should I Ride?," from my FREE monthly newsletter
From the Horse Training Problem Series:
"A person is able to keep his attention span for about 20 minutes before something else enters his head. The coffee pot he left on will come flying into his head. A saddle sore, his wife, something. So the best amount of time to ride a horse is for about 20 minutes, then give yourself a 10 or 15 minute break and ride for 20 minutes again. If you know you're going to work for 20 minutes, then you can focus and stay working hard for 20 minutes. But during that twenty minutes, you want to make something better. Ask yourself "What can I make better?" Find one thing and work to make it better.
"The key to training is to find improvement in what you're doing. That's what keeps you going, what keeps you wanting more. You should never be satisfied with what you've got or what you've done. "Satisfied" is another word for "content" and that's another word for "quitting." Then you can't go any farther. So never be satisfied and you'll find that there's always more to it, there's always more to want.
"Always raise your expectations. The whole time you're riding, you need to be looking for…"
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"I can virtually guarantee that the horse that bucks as he begins his lope will have resisted at some point while being pushed “up” into it and the rider has powered through it.
The proper way to teach increased speed/the next gait, is to move up in your gears and then ease back down over and over. Ease up, then cut your speed (“throttle back”) and repeat. You also need to employ your zero tolerance policy toward any sort of resistance in the form of bracing, stiff muscles, lurching, etc. That is, if your horse becomes stiff as you increase speed, fix it before preceding. Cancel your plans to work on loping and instead work on softening. See that serpentine exercise described in the last segment.) For guidance on this, see yesterday’s assigned article “Three Step Stop.”" - Print out from home
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