In working with people and trying to help them with something, I find it isn’t easy for me to get them to work in the area where it seems they need to work. They keep trying to work at the end result.
Tom Dorrance
You can’t teach feel, you have to experience it.
Bill Dorrance
Riding:The dialogue between two bodies and two souls aimed at establishing perfect harmony between them.
Waldemar Seunig
The rider should reduce his actions to the minimum and give the horse freedom in his movements.
Etienne Beudant
Through the years, I have worked with so many riders who have given me their best, their time, their attention and their willing effort. We’ve worked together through these shared experiences that have been so valuable in my search for ways to build greater unity for the horse and the rider.
Tom Dorrance
Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.
Nuno Oliveira
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
Nuno Oliveira
Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely and to provide protection and comfort. In return, they will give us their respect, and willing submission to our ideas about what to do next, and when and where. But this respect can only be based on well deserved trust.
Walter Zettl
I’ve always wanted to do the right thing by a horse, that’s never changed, its just that as my knowledge grew I’ve been able to offer the horse a better human being.
Buck Brannaman
The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.
Nuno Oliveira
