"When your legs are hard, you risk a horse
that is hard in your hand."
"If you continuously act with your legs,
you don't give the horse a chance to go completely on his own. And
you could squander an advantage resulting in a lack of sensitivity
and a waste of aids."
"The strongest attack, even with the spur,
has to come out of a soft leg. If one touches with stiff legs, the
horse resists."
"The legs have to give and take, just like
the hands."
"Mistakes of the legs show up in the mouth."
"Don't lose sight of the fact that hip and
legs drive the horse forward and the hands merely channel this
power by gentle rein aids."
"Discontinuing the aids does not mean
abandoning the horse, but to maintain the contact and to do as
little as possible."
"One must not begin riding by learning the
rein aids, but by learning how to feel."
"Try to awaken curiosity by the tenderness
of your aids."
"When riders give excessive aids, it is often because they apply to aids too late instead of at the right moment."
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