Stretching Strategies - Oct 2010
Sweet Spot Riding
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9m 41s
In this video Karen discusses some of her strategies regarding how much time to ask your horse to stretch. This is not a 'how to' video, but more about if you are already able to cause/ask your horse to stretch, how do you decide how much should you ask your horse to do it. Karen uses her two very different horses, Ovation and Atomic as examples and shows some footage of each.
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