🌱Relaxing a horse on the lunge line ⚫️One of my favorite exercises to help relax a horse on the lunge line is to decrease and increase the size of the circle. ⚪️It's most effective to do this at the trot. Gradually ask the horse to decrease the circle, maintain the smaller circle for a few horse lengths, and then ask for the circle to be increased. You can repeat this a couple of times on both reins.

Yesterday was our first day doing Dressage in hand!! I think it can be quite beneficial for both the horse and the rider and was quite surprised with how it went. Can't wait to give it another go!

On Saturday I tried to introduce my girl to poles to muscle the back so first I started with groundpoles and then I elevated a bit with one tire. The day went really good!! I pass 8 times in each way with trot also. You can see a summary on the video.

🔥Energizing the horse ⚫️I think it happens with every horse that they tend to "shuffle" at times.To achieve energizing, I brought an exercise. ♦️You can do this exercise during any dressage pattern, but I think it’s most advantageous on a large circle or by alternating patterns. ⚪️The exercise: frequent tempo changes, transitions every few steps. 〰️For example, after 2-3 strides of trot, transition to walk, 2-3 strides of walk, then back to trot. Repeat this during any dressage patterns until you feel a difference in the horse's energy. 🫧You can also use trot-walk or canter-trot transitions.

It’s my third time doing show jumping

Another one of these, I am a bit bored (And it is supposed to say ”placement”)

Today after a really good dressage class, I undress her and we went again to the arena to do a horsemanship time together. So first I let her do whatever she wants, also wallow and then I started doing some exercises. We practice to move when I blew it, to stop when I whistle and to go back when I say back. Also to move around when I say 'aiba' that would be the over. So we refresh the exercises we did on Monday and then let her move in freedom again. Obviously a lot of sweets after training 😊😊❤️

This exercise is about controlling your horse controlling your direction and also controlling your speed being fast enough so that you don’t miss the next jump.