1935 U.S. Cavalry Manual with red pencil, carrot, and sugar cubes – classical horse training tools 🔥 INSTRUCTIONS (read before...

This article is the written form of a spoken lecture. 107 - Lecture 1 (Prep) 108 - Lecture 18  Jane Frizzell 2023 *** "We still need to examine HAND , which requires examining SLETB (Straight-Line Elbow-to-Bit) . This brings us to the final — not first — connection of CONTACT . YOU ARE CONTACT Consider this idea: You are contact. Your horse is contact. We—our POSITION , our SEAT — are  contact. We are contact. Riding is contact. That is what riding is. Another principle to k

2025 12 13 jf = Jane Frizzell JC = Judge Chat™ (Using the Rubric of Saumur 1912, Steinbrecht, and Podhajsky) What Throughness Actually Means (and Why This Addendum Exists) jf said: I woke up with this thought and am thinking it needs to be included in the transcript blog about the shortening base going forward: i will set it forth here thorough, but perhaps rambling-fumbling to say well. I'll just blurt it. Here goes: His basic mistake is that he's proclaiming that the horse

A transcript showing how classical doctrine evaluates the claim that the base “shortens” while going forward. Based on Saumur, Steinbrecht, and Podhajsky.

A clear explanation of what the classical schools meant by Combined Effects  — the rider’s deliberate coordination of distinct actions and single aids to form an intelligible language between horse and human. Combined Effects — the visible proof that the aids remain separate while the effects are combined. Most modern readers — and riders — skim past the most important ideas without realizing it… just as they do in the saddle. They hurry through the words, the way they rush

Introduction Looseness in Riding ( Losgelassenheit ) is not jacuzzi relaxation or a vague “mellow feeling.” It is the deliberately...

Center of gravity in horse riding isn’t relative to what feels good. Real balance is physics, not slogans—and only an educated seat can ride forward.

Fixing a Tense Lusitano in Western Tack (The Quiet Rehabilitation) This isn’t “inspired by” classical training . It  is classical...

[Who should be famous—but isn’t yet.] A lovely Lusitano, waylaid by ambition.Two trainers, one ordinary day.And the decision to...

This warmup looks simple. It is not. Watch, self-test, and prove you can ride it—if you dare. Most riders can't. Will you?

“A horse that travels sideways isn’t trained…”* Capt. Etienne Beaudant, FRANCE So what about...

$100,000 horsemanship lesson: "This is discipline."* says Major Anders Lindgren. There's an old cavalry adage that the horses must take...

We bought a spectacular 17.3H, 5.5 yr Master x Kaliber (Utrillo) gelding, who God put together so ideal uphill he easily made every GP...