{"id":57980,"date":"2021-03-26T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=57980"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T02:44:49","slug":"top-tip-from-hubertus-schmidt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/03\/top-tip-from-hubertus-schmidt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tip from Hubertus Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Can you tell that you are collecting in the correct way?<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaEscolarWU2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57981 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaEscolarWU2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaEscolarWU2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaEscolarWU2-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is one way to check that you are on the right way \u2013 in the high collection you must be able to stretch them so they follow the bit and they are not stuck up there. In every situation you must be able to stretch them \u2013 even in a piaffe or a pirouette, even then, I must be able to do it. Okay if I do it for a longer period of time, they will lose the self carriage and come more on the front legs, but I must be able to do it because 90% of the horses are too short in high collection, they are not really using the back, they come up and short by themselves, and the rider can\u2019t make them longer or deeper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaEscolarWUStretch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57982 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaEscolarWUStretch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaEscolarWUStretch.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaEscolarWUStretch-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaEscolarWUStretch-389x300.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Go to a Masterclass with Hubertus Schmidt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2020\/08\/hubertus-schmidt-a-masterpiece-from-a-modern-master\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you tell that you are collecting in the correct way? \u201cThere is one way to check that you are on the right way \u2013 in the high collection you must be able to stretch them so they follow the bit and they are not stuck up there. In every situation you must be able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57983,"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],"tags":[1681,106,1587],"class_list":["post-57980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-achieving-collection","tag-hubertus-schmidt","tag-masterclass"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57980","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=57980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62031,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57980\/revisions\/62031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}