This exercise is the most difficult we are asking you to get you to get your head around as part of the in hand laterals patters. This months we go from Renvers to Half Pass! Can you visualize it? It is also part of our more advanced certification evaluations in our equine assisted interventions approach....
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If you haven’t watched the film My Octopus Teacher, then stop reading this right now and go to Netflix. (Trailer here on YouTube) An extraordinary work, which chronicles the relationship between South African diver and director Craig Foster and, yes, a wild octopus, the film won an Oscar and rightly so. The link between man
Like last month… same exercise first in hand and then mounted. Make sure again to first really have the in hand exercise down before you head over to the mounted version here....
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This month we are looking at the tear drop. In hand as well as ridden. In this exercise we go from shoulders in, via a small volte back to the track and then into travers. As part of this we are changing the position of the horse in the arena and the bend in the...
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Like you probably already saw, we are back to looking at laterals. Make sure you have checked out Rupert’s in hand Shoulder In to Travers tutorial before you do the ridden version. You can find that one here. Once the in hand work is solid, move on to this tutorial and the mounted work....
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Through some feedback we have realized that some of our tribe here in Long Ride Home as well as over at New Trails Learning are still a bit rocky with some of the laterals. Namely which one is which, how do I get from one to the other, which combinations are easy and which difficult....
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This months we are getting a step closer to the actual flying change. We focus once more on the counter canter and combine that with last month’s exercise of picking up whichever canter lead we want along the long or short side of the arena. Give yourself plenty of time to get this down! If...
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In this exercise Rupert helps us understand how we can use the in hand work patterns 1 and 2 with a bit of a straight line in between to prepare us and the horse mentally for the flying change....
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We are still in our series of working toward the flying change. Today I want to look at picking up a canter lead – the canter lead WE want – anywhere. Really important here is that you start to visualize what you want and that you start to get away from right or wrong lead...
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Join me on this wintry ride through the German country side, pondering on questions about experts. Somehow the horse world seems to be one where certain people hide their lack of knowledge behind a facade of intimidation. And some of the best and most solid horse people at the same time are the most quiet
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This is our first episode of “In The Arena With…” today Sukie Baxter of Whole Body Revolution is joining us.Sukie Baxter is a YouTube Influencer and offers us her her expertise in movement, posture, and body awareness. She offers practical tips and insightful wisdom that will empower you to enhance your well-being.You can find Sukie
In this episode of “In The Arena With…” Rupert is chatting with Sukie Baxter of Whole Body Revolution about ways to listen. Not with our ears but with our body. Sukie Baxter is a YouTube Influencer and offers us her her expertise in movement, posture, and body awareness. She offers practical tips and insightful wisdom
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“God Rupert you’re so ego-defended!“ The comment stopped me in my tracks, I looked at my girlfriend in confusion, wondering what she meant. Ego-defended. I hadn’t heard the term before. “What do you mean?” “Why are you so invested in being right?” It was a good question. Good enough that – even in mid lover’s spat – the question staunched the flow
The Flying Change! One of the really big deals for many equestrians. It looks so easy. Most of us feel we can never get there. And usually we don’t quite know why! In the next few months we are going to try and introduce to you a set of exercises that will prepare you and...
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Join Rupert for this month’s In Hand exercise and explore the transitions from Leg Yield to Shoulders in. Make sure like usual to have checked out the previous exercises of the month which are building up to this one. Like always comment below or reach out to us via Facebook or Whatsapp to let us...
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I personally really like this module and I hope you will too. I think it will really help you get to the next level. I cover two things here. First I explain a bit better what I did in the summer with the 3 Lines exercise. I found out that some people don’t quite feel...
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In this episode of my Vlog I am riding one and leading three to pasture. We are talking about creating cool, reliable, professional horses. It is really important I think to have horses we can rely on. A horse will always be a prey animal. But there seem to be reliably people that have horses
It’s stubblefield season, again! In this Vlog I’m talking about letting go of control. I think horses possibly attracts a certain type of personality, that likes to be in charge and that likes to tell a 500kg+ animal that doesn’t speak the same language as us and is a prey animal that makes us taller,
Never Shut up! and Monkey Communications It’s already June! The new exercises of the month have just been released. This month join us exploring the concepts of “Never Shut Up!” and “Monkey Communications”. Watch to learn more and find the full exercises on https://longridehome.com/hh horse #longridehome #livefreeridefree #findjoy #horsemanship #betweentheears #equestrian #horseriding #vlog #equestrianvlog
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