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QUOTES BY NUNO OLIVEIRA
on the Aids in general
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"When your legs are hard, you risk a horse that is hard in your hand."
(tr: Thomas Ritter)
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"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."
(tr: Thomas Ritter)
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"The strongest attack, even with the spur, has to come out of a soft leg. If one touches with stiff legs, the horse resists."
(tr: Thomas Ritter)
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"The legs have to give and take, just like the hands."
(tr: Thomas Ritter)
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"Mistakes of the legs show up in the mouth."
(tr: Thomas Ritter)
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"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."
(tr: Thomas Ritter)
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"Discontinuing the aids does not mean abandoning the horse, but to maintain the contact and to do as little as possible."
(tr: Thomas Ritter)
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"One must not begin riding by learning the rein aids, but by learning how to feel."
(tr: Thomas Ritter)
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"Try to awaken curiosity by the tenderness of your aids."
(tr: Thomas Ritter)
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"When riders give excessive aids, it is often because they apply to aids too late instead of at the right moment."
(tr: Thomas Ritter)
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Last Update: January 13, 2007