{"id":9701,"date":"2020-10-28T17:06:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T21:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equestrianbootsandbridles.com\/?p=9701"},"modified":"2021-03-24T09:08:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:08:45","slug":"how-to-collect-a-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equestrianbootsandbridles.com\/how-to-collect-a-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Collect a Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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    My third coach was an expert in all English riding but, specifically she was dressage expert. She competed in dressage on her stallion and had won countless competitions. I had already been riding for a while when I found her but I had mostly focused on jumping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For the longest time, she didn’t talk about how to collect<\/a> a horse. She would mention it here and there but she wouldn’t tell me how to do it. Instead, we would focus on all the pre-requisites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I was always confused about why she didn’t want to show me how to collect a horse, and why it wasn’t more of a priority in our lessons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Wasn’t collection super important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Wasn’t it the horse moving in the most advantageous way? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Also – if I’m being dead honest – at that time I was still struggling a lot with my sitting trot<\/a> and I wanted to know how to make it easier to ride and I had read somewhere that collection made that easier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    One day, we were working on neck flexion with Lucy. At that point she finally explained it to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    She told me: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you can’t properly flex your horse, then it’s almost impossible to maintain collection. It will invariably breakdown because it’s too difficult for the horse to maintain if they aren’t nicely flexing around corners and on circles. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    So before we get started on collection, let’s make sure we’ve got flexion down<\/a> and how to keep your horse from falling into the circle that you’re flexing them on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    How to Establish Neck Flexion<\/a><\/blockquote>