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    Tune up Your Turns and Distances

    Mar 12, 2019 5 minutes

    What’s the ideal way to ride a turn to a fence? With your hands light, your eyes—and your horse’s—on the jump, and the two of you just flowing with impulsion into, through and out of the turn to a good distance. If that’s not the kind of turn you and your horse ride regularly, most likely you’re late with your eyes—because you’re:

    • looking down in the air so your horse doesn't know where he’s going next

    • staring at a jump you’ll be turning around so he thinks he’s supposed to go to that jump instead of to the side, or

    • landing in a heap so he lands in a heap, too.

    Being late with your eyes throws you off balance and that starts a domino effect:

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