{"id":57833,"date":"2021-03-17T13:29:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T02:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=57833"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T02:45:15","slug":"top-tip-from-jonny-hilberath-german-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/03\/top-tip-from-jonny-hilberath-german-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tip from Jonny Hilberath, German Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top Tip from Jonny Hilberath, German team coach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FeatjonnyWave-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57834 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FeatjonnyWave-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FeatjonnyWave-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FeatjonnyWave-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You see these open mouths\/ tight necks. What\u2019s the basic missing? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe correct moving of the back &#8211; \u00a0the contact forward from the hand. It is the wrong pressure in the horse; the wrong tension in the horse also mental tension in the horse because the mouth is like a mirror to the brain. That is something that definitely has to be fixed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mouth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mouth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mouth.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mouth-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>So if someone came to your place for training, they\u2019ve got their Grand Prix horse. What\u2019s the first thing that you do to address it?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all you get the double bridle off his head. You get them in a snaffle. \u201cBut I only ever ride him in a double!\u201d Well now you don\u2019t. Even take a lower noseband away. Just to see the basic of the mouth. Then I go step-by-step. I\u2019m not a bit expert, so I try a different way with the riding. Most of the time, the mouth and tongue is a mirror for the rest of the body, so I am not so busy at that stage looking at the mouth, I am busy looking at the hindquarter and the back and the whole connection through the horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WencksternPiaffePir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57836 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WencksternPiaffePir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WencksternPiaffePir.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WencksternPiaffePir-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WencksternPiaffePir-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/WencksternPiaffePir-302x300.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/03\/jonny-hilberath-what-makes-a-great-dressage-rider\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Tip from Jonny Hilberath, German team coach You see these open mouths\/ tight necks. What\u2019s the basic missing? \u201cThe correct moving of the back &#8211; \u00a0the contact forward from the hand. It is the wrong pressure in the horse; the wrong tension in the horse also mental tension in the horse because the mouth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,4],"tags":[1243,384],"class_list":["post-57833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dressage","tag-dressage","tag-jonny-hilberath"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57833"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68850,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57833\/revisions\/68850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}