{"id":58044,"date":"2022-07-30T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=58044"},"modified":"2022-07-30T16:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T06:36:04","slug":"top-tips-from-stefan-wolff-on-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2022\/07\/top-tips-from-stefan-wolff-on-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tips from Stefan Wolff on Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cProper steady contact is more important than the stretch. If it changes every stride you cannot even call it a contact.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou are giving before you even have a contact. It has to be measurable \u2013 that\u2019s why it\u2019s called contact. When he moves the head around it is because he is not on the aids. Place the bit and let the horse come onto it. If you\u2019re giving too much you\u2019re not placing it. Drive him onto the bit and let your hand wait. Low hands, no fiddling, no helping out. Drive. No flexing. You\u2019re doing too much. Put the bit in one place and make sure he\u2019s dealing with it from behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBefore you worry about long and deep and flexion, you have to have steady contact. Before that you cannot even use your aids.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cSteer him like a boat with the rudder in the back, not from the front like a steering wheel in a car\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stefan had his pupil riding with one hand, and it worked! \u201cThat is contact. Keep the hand in the middle of the wither. Don\u2019t try and help him. Let him deal with things. Let him muddle around a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou can interfere as much as you want with the leg, but not with the rein. The rein should be boring. The hands should be constant on either side of the neck so the neck can stabilise. The leg should tighten the rein. Work on the leg producing contact. That\u2019s the whole point of it; riding from behind to the bit. The hand is just the counterpart to the leg. It doesn\u2019t produce anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

***Note \u2013 Stefan is not the only trainer to use one-handed riding to give his pupils the feeling they want, pics are from other Clinics\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cProper steady contact is more important than the stretch. If it changes every stride you cannot even call it a contact.\u201d \u201cYou are giving before you even have a contact. It has to be measurable \u2013 that\u2019s why it\u2019s called contact. When he moves the head around it is because he is not on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":58050,"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":[92,919],"class_list":["post-58044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dressage","tag-contact","tag-stefan-wolff"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58044","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=58044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58051,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58044\/revisions\/58051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}