#automatic release

[merelygifted]

A Hackamore AND an Automatic Release! n Look at that Leg!

From the Elwyn Hartley Edwards-edited Encyclopedia of the Horse, which I first owned as a ten year old, 1976 or 77

[zuzubeedoo]

A video clip of Hugh Wiley and Master William winning the 1958 King George V Gold Cup

[itsritual]

Mandibular Bars and Modern Equestrianism

Over the last ten years I have watched equestrian jumping formation slide into a dangerous area of ease, laziness, and pain, under the misunderstood notion of a ‘better release’. While that statement may seem inflammatory coming from this author who does not compete, nor no longer has her own horses, and therefore might be ‘out of touch’, the statement is nonetheless based in an understanding of…

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[iloveappy]

Any of my followers have any tips for teaching yourself an automatic release (aka following release)?

[oxers2tabletops-blog]

This was actually my lesson from last Saturday and what I finished with. I've had Annabel for almost 5 years and you would not believe how rough it's been up until this year. We would never make it through the triple combinations at shows clean and she would do one stride in the 2 strides and it was scary. Part of it was her but a lot of it was me too. Since I switched to eventing I really had to make a huge transition in my position over fences and by over-breaking, laying on her neck, and crest releases it made her that much hotter on course and harder to get back. In my video you can see how I'm use automatic releases and don't over-break to get her back through the 3-3 triple combo. The last fence I let the reins slip through my hands with my auto release as I felt her really stretch her neck. If I pause on the second fence I'm not really breaking at all, but I feel like I did the right thing as she began to get quick out of the line. I'm excited to someday look at this a year from now. That's the point of my blog is to track my progress.