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THANK you so much Chisamba.... soooo much fun to have the "Zentangle stuff'. Trying to really do a lot of it this year!

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Glad you and your pups got them (love dobes too). (Amazon could be more helpful, but they got there!!!)

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I am in too

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Where the horse reacts to create jambette is a matter for each horse. For some it is in front of the leg, for others back, still for others get the horse to jambette (and even hold the jambette from holding under the leg). Usually bamboo is easier, or the stiff end of the whip. After the horse learn...

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Now that that 3 of the 4 general impressions have been removed from fei judging, and there is a movement to eliminate them from all tests. But what is the purpose of the general impressions? It was to highlight where the training issues originated. (And that is often NOT clear unless there complete ...

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I just my black watch license plate edge from Blob.....sooooo coooool.

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For sure, Seunig, Horsemanship. Inexpensive if old, and the most complete book of all.

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Seems back orders are happening in many cases..... January will be nice for all of us!!! Thanks blob!

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Thank you SOOO much to 'blob' (Fatima) for the yummy raspberry chocolates and the Astrophysics book. Enjoying both!!!..

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didnt get it, try again. (or here)

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was anything sent?

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Do I need to send it again???

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ARE WE HAVING XMAS??

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me too, always remember you all.

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zevida, you did get a second package right?? Since amazon didnt put everything together??

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Simply lift the inside rein slightly, it will cause inside flexion at the atlas. Meanwhile inside leg is pulsed closer to the girth, and the outside leg is passively down and back from hip to heel. The outside rein is filled out by lateral flexibility, not by holding it stronger per se.

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Sue B, thank your for all the yumminess. The local Idaho delicacies are being enjoyed for Christmas dinner. Thank you so much for so many lovely items!

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Zevida, more to come

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Kringle's contacts going out soon??

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Where specifically?

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for sure added chopped celery...

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The thing is for this to be so there has to be the big three for the rider: correct equitation combined with tact and timing (esp as to half halts). It always comes back to the rider and then their experience and ability to apply knowledge of training exercises/movements to sustain purity of gaits a...

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It is recommended (according to educational sources) that apparently to have the thermostat 4-6 degrees higher than normal when -degrees are occurring (esp with wind) because after a certain temp the furnaces cant keep up with the heat loss.

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(I have seen riders and horses hit the square ones and get injured.)

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Pvc easily shatters as it ages. Best shape is octagonal (or oval), square can cause injuries. It is more difficult to connect round poles to an X shape (mho).

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My frog prince enjoy his time with buddies on my tree~~

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Oh my, Paula O, all the goodies that we're included. Yummy sea salt chocolate and enjoyable sox, and so many other things. What a joy to get!!! (And btw was the Frog Prince separately from you too?) Hayburner, did everything arrive in tact? So sorry I was flying out and sent it all w/o wrapping. ;-)

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YEAH for your promotion!!!!

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Re-sent mine. (If possible)

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The question is why people use s.r.. First always using a caveson, and then s.r. to them (properly adjusted to allow the horse to be in front of the vertical). And the horse learns half halts to remain in a proper bearing and connection. And then in trot (because walk and trot need bascule). The pur...

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Traditionally piaffe comes as a forward exercise, so from collected walk (or rein back which is more diagonalizing) to piaffe. Collected walk meaning high flexing hind leg joints, articulated. The ability to use this comes from simple things early in training (for in hand) which is walk/halt (square...

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for sure

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Flechi droit is not bending the neck at the withers, which would be simple manipulation of the neck l/r as is recommended by some ldr riders. Instead, it is more calculated bending more in the front of the neck (similiar to positioning laterally) but much more clear with the base of the neck centere...

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(Soak the hay too~)

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When things are repeated more than once, or for a longer period of time, it is (as I said earlier) often for educating the rider as to what is correct (esp in a clinic situation). But that is not for the horse's training but for the rider's learning. And done in walk, it is less problematic because ...

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HP changes through the levels because it is done on a steeper diagonal as one progresses up the levels, and with quicker changes of bend, as one goes up the levels. And as far as SI, the degree of collection is certainly more (with greater impulsion and articulation) in fei than it is at second. And...

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I never would do SI the entire long side except perhaps as a rider learning how to use the aids (and even then with voltes or circles added in the middle or so). And to do it until it fails (which is likely with a less experienced horse) would be problematic. I guess it depends upon what the rider i...

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Initially there may be pinching, but doing it for longer periods of time causes the rider to let the body to go up from the horse's action, rather like an elastic action. The posting then is lower because the tossing up is less than we think when we learn 'up/down' at the beginning. Then the rider l...

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Posting trot w/o stirrups should not encourage clamping, it should be the opposite. Overpost (height) and the rider will be exhausted early with very sore muscles, etc. I remember in the days of posting w/o them, two point, jumping, etc that we actually had a contest of posting w/o them around an ar...

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Suzanne is quite articulate and wonderful for equitation. Her books are quite useful for many readers. (Suzanne is also the cousin of Felicitas von Neumann-Cosel. A very nice trainer who rides/trains all types of horses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Jf7Xbedxc&feature=youtu.be ) Posting (hei...

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She should be treated as an unaccompanied minor however, and they cannot be left alone. Not just a person needing wheelchair, although they need a person there to take them to the facilities if needed. From will asking another airline's employee: "Each airline has differing policies about the e...

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They are back.

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Please do not get a forward leaning port like shown in one of the links above, it is into the palette before the reins are even picked up (worse with a loose curb chain). They are horrid imho. This is 5 3/4 http://www.dressageextensions.com/loose-ring-weymouth/p/1060/ And this is 6" http://www....

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I get iPhones on the replace it every year for what is new out (its sorta like renting), and they replace the phones immediately.

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I think with what AP wrote that it was in a frame of reference of an entire book, but we have to understand he had to first be a teacher of riding (and yes, he wrote 5 books I think). In writing speaking in one book to the less inexperienced rider, and also the experienced rider. Agree that green an...

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Perhaps there is a mix up of the stages of training. When AP is speaking about the movements the horse is already in a stage of collection, where the inside rein can be often given away (uberstreichen), and the horse is between the inside leg and outside rein, and the seat and leg (weight) are the m...

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I have watched him in real time on a bunch of different horses, traditionally he went back to neutral. In the photos there is a tendency to have a broken line. That said he also uses the fillis/schultheis reinhold, so the snaffle is (may be) lifting into the corners of the lips. And the question is ...

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The fact is that a line from elbow to horse's mouth, upper arm hanging vertical,thumb upward, is a NEUTRAL position. That is what the ODGs used. But it was also expected that the horse was up/open/ifV/active/etc. So the use then was situational. When the line is broken upward, then it is often a hal...

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You can do it from your amazon account, and re-sync or http://www.dummies.com/consumer-electro ... e-fire-hd/

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The one above is only $40.

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