Groundwork Exercises to Under Saddle
Groundwork
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10m
Monique talks about how to correlate groundwork to under saddle work. One of the questions she thinks about is how we connect the horse's feet to our body. They work on bending the horse and moving the hindquarters away from the leg pressure. She wants the rhythm to be in sync with the horse's hind leg, or the hind leg in sync with the leg pressure.
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