{"id":57991,"date":"2021-03-28T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T03:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=57991"},"modified":"2023-03-21T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T03:52:57","slug":"top-basics-tip-with-stefan-wolff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/03\/top-basics-tip-with-stefan-wolff\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving through the poll &#8211; with Stefan Wolff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cTempo, activity, flexion. All the dynamics should work through the neck and culminate in the poll and bit.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaValegroFavourite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaValegroFavourite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaValegroFavourite.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaValegroFavourite-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1aaValegroFavourite-318x300.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the movement of that big body gets tunnelled through the little poll. That\u2019s the important thing. That is why moving the nose left and right doesn\u2019t help because if the target, that is the poll, keeps moving, you can never get the energy through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can have him on the bit, but not through in the neck. You have to give with the hand so that he can go through the neck, but not so much that he gets away from you. The giving is just to let the energy through. Give him a little finger, not your entire arm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HilberathWenckstern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HilberathWenckstern.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HilberathWenckstern.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HilberathWenckstern-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/HilberathWenckstern-374x300.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTempo, activity, flexion. All the dynamics should work through the neck and culminate in the poll and bit.&#8221; &#8220;All the movement of that big body gets tunnelled through the little poll. That\u2019s the important thing. That is why moving the nose left and right doesn\u2019t help because if the target, that is the poll, keeps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57998,"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":[2072,919,2165],"class_list":["post-57991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dressage","tag-basics","tag-stefan-wolff","tag-through-the-poll"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57991","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=57991"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65965,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57991\/revisions\/65965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}