Comments on: Getting It Straight http://www.cavalliconnections.com/2010/02/27/getting-it-straight/ The lifelong pursuit of classical riding. Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:13:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: combinedtraining http://www.cavalliconnections.com/2010/02/27/getting-it-straight/#comment-61 combinedtraining Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:38:21 +0000 http://www.cavalliconnections.com/?p=266#comment-61 LOVE this post... I would love to be able to have nothing but lunge lessons until I can truly ride. I feel like the way I learned (and the way so many other people learn) is backward and it's so frustrating to have been riding for years and still not be able to master the most essential concepts. LOVE this post… I would love to be able to have nothing but lunge lessons until I can truly ride. I feel like the way I learned (and the way so many other people learn) is backward and it’s so frustrating to have been riding for years and still not be able to master the most essential concepts.

]]> By: Natalie Keller Reinert http://www.cavalliconnections.com/2010/02/27/getting-it-straight/#comment-50 Natalie Keller Reinert Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:37:35 +0000 http://www.cavalliconnections.com/?p=266#comment-50 Oh - what a pretty, pretty blog this is! :) I will be happy to lunge you for hours on end if you let me listen to music and zone out. I developed an independent seat for the first time at the age of 18, in a round pen, on a 19 year old OTTB broodmare with the impulsion of the Starship Enterprise and the temper to match. Her walk-canter transitions were like missiles launching. Good gig, if you can land it. Oh – what a pretty, pretty blog this is! :)

I will be happy to lunge you for hours on end if you let me listen to music and zone out.

I developed an independent seat for the first time at the age of 18, in a round pen, on a 19 year old OTTB broodmare with the impulsion of the Starship Enterprise and the temper to match. Her walk-canter transitions were like missiles launching. Good gig, if you can land it.

]]> By: Suzanne King http://www.cavalliconnections.com/2010/02/27/getting-it-straight/#comment-49 Suzanne King Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:15:56 +0000 http://www.cavalliconnections.com/?p=266#comment-49 This is very true! A student once asked me to help her work on her hands and I told her that to work on her hands she must work on her seat. When I was little riding in Germany the saying at the barn was "the rider is only as good as his seat"! This is very true! A student once asked me to help her work on her hands and I told her that to work on her hands she must work on her seat. When I was little riding in Germany the saying at the barn was “the rider is only as good as his seat”!

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