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How Strength and Straightness Work Together — And Why Your Horse Needs Both

How Strength and Straightness Work Together — And Why Your Horse Needs Bothby: Jenny AdamsonPublished on: 31/08/2026

If your horse is both crooked and weak through the core, each problem makes the other worse. Here's why you can't address one without the other — and the approach that finally creates lasting change.

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How Strength and Straightness Work Together — And Why Your Horse Needs Both

Why Your Horse's Crookedness Patterns Don't Fix Themselves

Why Your Horse's Crookedness Patterns Don't Fix Themselvesby: Jenny AdamsonPublished on: 17/08/2026

If your horse keeps defaulting to the same crookedness no matter how much work you put in, this is why. The clinical explanation behind persistent crookedness patterns — and how to actually change them.

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Why Your Horse's Crookedness Patterns Don't Fix Themselves

Why Your Horse Bends Better One Way — And What's Really Going On In Their Body

Why Your Horse Bends Better One Way — And What's Really Going On In Their Bodyby: Jenny AdamsonPublished on: 10/08/2026

Why does your horse bend better one way? It's not a training problem — it's a whole-body pattern called locked short and locked long. Here's what it means and how to address it from the ground.

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Why Your Horse Bends Better One Way — And What's Really Going On In Their Body

In-Hand Work Isn't as Complicated as You Think — Here's Where to Start

In-Hand Work Isn't as Complicated as You Think — Here's Where to Startby: Jenny AdamsonPublished on: 27/07/2026

Most horse owners think in-hand work isn't for them. Here's why they're wrong — and the simple building block approach that starts with standing square and ends with a horse who already knows shoulder-in.

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In-Hand Work Isn't as Complicated as You Think — Here's Where to Start

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