• They are called Riding Lessons, NOT Horsing Lessons.
• Their primary purpose is to develop a rider.
• Coaching an inadequate rider is futile.
• The rider, not the clinician or coach, is the instrument of the horse's schooling.
• Advice, however ingenious, is useless unless an attentive rider can effectively carry out the suggestions.
• Coaching people to ride "figures" and guide horses in competition movements is a waste of time as long as they are being repeated by the riders with inadequate riding skills.
• Rider faults and shortcomings will infiltrate all rider/horse communications and diminish their validity, clarity and value.
• Inadequate equitation will always produce, promote and instill faulty exercises in the horse.
• Without the correct position, the rider cannot successfully communicate with his horse.
• Accidentally delivered communication through instability and lack of balance will misinform the horse and confuse him.