“我们的工作就是尽量去传承经典。”
转角处
打开外方缰，保持速度，并继续在蹄迹线上行进，内方缰将马匹的重量由内方肩转换到外方肩，同时让马匹的脖颈曲挠。但注意不要让马匹过度向内方曲挠。内方腿不仅要帮助马匹保持动力，同时也要让马匹的身体曲挠，外方腿向后大约一只手的距离，以保证马匹后驱的位置。这样有助于骑手更多的运用缰绳和小腿的扶助，也会帮助马匹更好的了解骑手的综合扶助。
首先，节奏必须要有规律性，然后再配以恰当的动力。伸长和速度并不意味马匹有充分的动力。实际上，在运用鞭子或是马刺来教育马匹“服从腿的扶助”时，需要让马匹的重心回到后肢上去（半减却）。所谓的有动力应当是让马匹向前“思考”，后肢积极工作，更有力量。
蹄迹线
骑手必须知道马匹脚落的位置。首先是它的肩部，然后便是后肢。跟随着马匹的节奏，骑手要让马匹“蹄迹正直”，既左后腿，左前腿，右后腿，最后是右前腿。然后这样骑手才能理解肩内，腰内和斜横步的真正含义。人们通常过分关注马的头部和脖颈，而忽略了马匹的整体。
“我们经常会过多地追求美感与技巧。”
在练习“滞后运动”前，每一位骑手不论是在骑乘练习，还是障碍练习时都需要能够做到与马匹同步运动。在任何情况下，先于马匹运动都是不对的，当然现在也很少看到这种现象了。骑乘时“与马匹同步运动”，其优点是能让马匹和骑手相互轻松、默契配合。骑坐和跳障碍前都与马匹同步运动。骑手合上他的髋关节，向前倾斜30°角，随着马匹“向前并向上”运动。
而“滞后运动”指的是骑手“向上并向前”，试着跟上马匹运动。他的髋关节是打开的，他的上身在垂直线上。个人而言，对于高水平骑手，这两种方法我都很乐意教。
两点式VS三点式联系
在直线上快速跑步，或是较平缓的转弯时，可运用两点式联系（骑手的两腿扶助）。在急转弯和接近障碍时，可运用三点式联系（两腿和骑座扶助）。在伸长跑步和跳障碍时，两种方式都应该熟练掌握。现在的骑手在鞍子上坐得太多，这对他们的骑乘和马匹都是有害的。一名好的教练会训练马匹做到自我平衡或自我承载。也就是说骑手需要用更少的手、腿、骑坐扶助使马匹前进。
眼睛
我们总习惯往下看。下次自己检查一下，你就会意识到这个问题了。训练时，试着找到一个焦点，教练可以帮助学员更好的找到他们需要看的地方。这就像开车一样，你的眼睛要时刻注意前方道路。
平衡
我平时很重视体操障碍训练，是那种很简单的组合障碍的体操训练，脱蹬，脱缰，不用鞭子，不用马刺。障碍高度非常低，通畅在20厘米左右，在这样的练习下，骑手很快会找到平衡、协调性和自信。我们曾经做过很多这种练习，后来便忘记了。
自动给缰
通过大量的体操障碍练习，你可以像优秀的骑手一样做到“自动给缰”，当然这需要不断练习。“自动给缰”能够让骑手更好的掌控全局。出于懒惰，我们都过度依赖马匹的脖颈给予我们的支撑。
CORNERS
Start with the outside rein, which should open to the outside, maintaining the track at the speed. The inside rein (indirect rein in front of the withers) displaces the horse's weight from the inside to outside shoulder and also bends the neck of the horse. Do not overbend the neck to the inside. The inside leg not only maintains the impulsion, but also bends the horse, while the outside leg goes back about a hand to guard the hindquarters.
It's also good to practice corners. Teach horses and riders to turn using a variety of rein and leg combinations.
RHYTHM
Rhythm always must have regularity first. Then it must be coupled with the right amount of impulsion. Extension and speed do not necessarily mean that a horse has sufficient impulsion. In fact, when teaching the 'lesson of the leg' through the whip or the spurs, hold the horse back (half-halt). Impulsion is the horse thinking forward with more animation and higher, more active hind legs.
TRACKING
One must know where a horse's feet are. First, his shoulders and his hindquarters. Through his influences, the rider first must be able to make the horse 'track straight'--left hind, left front, right hind, right front. Then he can understand shoulder-in, haunches-in and half-pass. People are usually so fixated on the head and neck that they forget the whole horse.
'We all tend to drift into gimmicks, fashions and fads.'
WITH THE MOTION
It's best for any and every rider to master posting and jumping 'with the motion' before attempting the much more complete ' behind the motion.' Ahead of the motion, 'of course, is never right, but one doesn't often see that anymore. The advantage to riding' with the motion 'is the smoothness and ease for both horse and rider. One is with the horse before he posts ; one is with the jump before the jumps. To differentiate, the rider closes his hip angle, inclines to the front about 30 degrees, and is thrown forward and upward (with the motion).
Riding 'behind the motion,' the rider goes upward and forward, catching up with his horse. His hip angle is open and his upper body is on the vertical. Personally, I like teaching both methods to more advanced riders.
'Our job is to try to maintain a classic line.'
TWO-POINT VS THREE-POINT
For galloping on straight lines or gradual turns, two-point contact is used (both legs on the horse). For sharper turns and the approach to a jump, three-point contact is used (both legs and the seat). For galloping and jumping, both positions should be practiced. Riders sit down in the saddle too much today, which is bad for their riding and bad for their horse. Good trainers teach the horse self-balance or self-carriage. Teach the horse to go with less-less hand, less leg, less seat.
EYES
We all look down too much. Check yourself the next time : I know I look down too much. A good exercise is to look at focal points which you ride. The instructor makes an ideal focal point. It's like driving a car. Keep your eyes on the road.
EQUILIBRIUM
(Balance) I'm doing a lot of grid work again. No-stride in-and-outs with no stirrups, no reins, no sticks, no spurs. The fences are very low (about 2'6') and the riders quickly develop security, balance, coordination and confidence. We used to do a lot of this work and then forgot it.
JUMPING OUT OF HAND
If you do a lot of grid work, jumping out of hand (automatic release) for the more advanced rider will be within reach, although it does take practice. This release gives the rider total control. It is a dying art because we are all lazy and depend on the neck of the horse too much for support.
As I've said, these are just some of the point and techniques that I've observed, both here and in other countries, which need to be worked on to improve our riding, teaching and training. We all tend to drift into gimmicks, fashions and fads. Our job is to try to maintain a classic line, no matter what horses we ride and train and no matter whom we teach. Fashions come and go. Style never changes.
George H. Morris:美国著名的马术骑手、教练和裁判员，曾任美国场地障碍国家马术队领队及总教练。1960年罗马奥运会代表美国队获团体银牌。数十次国家冠军队成员，赢得过传统大赛德国亚琛及加拿大卡尔加里的冠军。14岁就成为最年轻的美国国家队冠军。2006年FEI世界马术大会个人和团体银牌，曾带领美国队获得2004年雅典奥运会和2008年北京奥运会团体金牌。他的学生遍及世界各地，取得过不计其数的世界马术障碍赛冠军，其中包括著名的美国骑手 Beezie Madden 和德国骑手 Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum。Morris 还曾被英国马术杂志《马术师实践》誉为世纪骑手，深受马术圈内人士的敬重。
本篇文章由2006—2008北京奥组委马术项目主管 Michelle 编译，旨在将 George Morris 的先进教学经验介绍给中国马业同仁和关注马术文化的大众，原刊载于《马术》杂志2012年8月刊。
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