Riding Exercises

Jag och Ulla min förra häst hoppar en liten studs. Jag vet vi har mycket att finslipa på men vi har kul🥰🙏

make a smooth transition from walk to canter on the first attempt 😀 and what, did it work?🫣 Sometimes me and my horse need more time and repeats but it is worth to try 🥰

This is a student of mine. Landing on the right side is difficult for them on the straight. With this exercise i tried to create a feeling of rhythm. We tried it on the right and the left side. On the end of the lesson I tool away the poles on the ground and told her to ride it again and keep making the circle bigger tot get back to the straight. 

For every horse working on suppleness is necessary. Use the 4 corners of the arena and make a 10 m cercle in very corner : walk - trot and canter. The idea is to keep the balance contstantly !!

Den här dressyrövningen ger en lösgjord, bärig häst

This is an exercise taken from the western world but revamped for dressage schooling or even jumpers. This helps teaches horses how to do halt to canter and pick up the correct lead on a straight line. The exercise: Walk/trot or canter (dependent on skill level) down the quarter line. Ask horse to halt. You may need to back a step to make sure they are engaging their core and rounded. Turn on the haunch 180° toward the rail (towards centerline if your goal is countercanter). When you are parallel to the rail in the opposite direction, ask for the canter. The turn on the haunch served to get the leading leg forward.

Droopy Bowtie exercise! This pattern was instrumental in helping both me and my horse learn how to bend properly, stay balanced, and begin to learn to leg yield. I still go back to it to this day when warming up, especially when my mare has been off work awhile, and I'm using it to help train my former cow horse dressage! Make sure to do both sides evenly, and go slow until you and the horse are getting good and supple bending and easy contact! The horse should bend around your leg, but not bow out and let its shoulder fall to the middle. When moving towards the wall, try to stay as straight as you can and parallel to the wall until you get to the corner! This exercise works in small and full sized arenas, and you can do it on the short wall or the long wall! Adding a small circle in the middle (at E) can help practice 10m circles, as well!

Shoulder in! We're learning shoulder in now, any tips? I find it difficult to feel when the position is perfect and to keep on the wall the whole time!