Sharpen Your Edge
This course is designed for riders who want more than just getting by in the saddle — it’s for those who want to ride with precision, balance, and true partnership with their horse.
Over the coming modules, you’ll learn how to build strength, balance, and awareness in both yourself and your horse. We’ll focus on creating connection before collection, because quality movement and refinement can only come once horse and rider are truly attuned.
By the end of Sharpen Your Edge you’ll:
Ride with deeper awareness of your body and its influence.
Recognize and reward your horse’s effort, not just outcomes.
Build strength and balance that leads to effortless collection.
Develop a true partnership — horse and rider moving as one.
This is your chance to go beyond mechanics and into mastery — to sharpen your seat, your timing, your feel, and your horse’s performance.
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Introduction to Sharpen Your Edge
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A Peek Inside Sharpen Your Edge
Focus: building balance, strength, and connection in both horse and rider. Students learn the order of the ride, develop awareness of their seat/legs/rein, and establish rhythm before refinement.
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Meet the Coaches: T1 & T2 or T Squared
Focus: building balance, strength, and connection in both horse and rider. Students learn the order of the ride, develop awareness of their seat/legs/rein, and establish rhythm before refinement.
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What to Expect :: Watch This First!
Focus: building balance, strength, and connection in both horse and rider. Students learn the order of the ride, develop awareness of their seat/legs/rein, and establish rhythm before refinement.
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What to Expect :: Progress OVER Perfection
Focus: building balance, strength, and connection in both horse and rider. Students learn the order of the ride, develop awareness of their seat/legs/rein, and establish rhythm before refinement.
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Why Order is Crucial
Establishing Order- these key steps must be in place in order to have natural collection and support for the horse to have the ability to carry themselves in those foundational movement patterns we all desire and love.
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Don't Be Tessa!
Conditioning times are simply SUGGESTIONS
Working on transitions is fantastic for building top lines and strengthening stifles and ligaments.
Don’t skip the warm up and the cooldown is also essential
You don’t need to set a timer & work gates/directions all at once.
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Module 1: Foundations & Conditioning
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Module 2: Rider Awareness & Position
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Lesson 1: Balance Through Your Hips
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Lesson 2: Balance through Seat & Feet
Ride across the camera’s view—either at a diagonal or straight across at a 90-degree angle. If possible, record in slow motion to catch the details.
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Lesson 2a: Proper Leg Bend
Tiffany explains the proper bend and leg contact you should have when riding.
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Lesson 3: Reward the Try
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Module 3: Establishing Order with Every Ask
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Lesson 1a: Establishing Rhythm
Learning to count rather than be counted takes time, patience and intention. Here Tessa and Birdie demonstrate both.
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Lesson 1: Establishing Order
Establishing Order- the 4 steps and how you will work through them to achieve balance, strength, connection and then collection.
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Lesson 4: Leg and Rein Support
Leg Positions
Where they are and when to use them
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Demonstrating Establishing Order with Javonna
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Establishing Order: Rider Review
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Module 4: Establishing Order & Collection
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Intro to the Canter
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Real Rides: Disorder comes Before Order
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Module 5: Leg Yields
Meet your instructors
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Meet your instructors ✳
MICHAEL RICHARDSON
TIFFANY AND TESSA AKA. T SQUARED
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