This exercise allows you to practice change in direction, striding and you can do it in either trot or canter

Perfect for walk, trot and canter

Yesterday we were doing leg yields, it's the exercise that I'm learning nowadays. Actually, yesterday went pretty well.

Simple and useful

Combining flatwork with jumping

My last and favorite excerise is where each time you go over a pole you have to do a big circle around all poles before going to the next. This helps improve your coordination and being able to stop your horse from thinking ahead too much

There is so many excerises you can do with a simple cross! 1: walk/trot over them in a small circle 2: leaf clover : walk over pole turn away make a 10m circle and go on to the next pole. Continue until you finish all poles 3: Go over pole make a circle over the next and continue straight over the next to then circle over the next. (hard to explain) see the orange or pink drawing

This exercise is one that most of my trainers have done I even have done it bareback. So the blue line is the start/finish pole, the red lines are poles or cones or jump wings used to mark the lap size (so you have to go around them) (obvs you can just go around the arena, but I prefer to do it this way) then the black point line is the first round where you "qualify" for the final round, there were 8 of us so 4 of us went first ant the first two "qualified" then the other 4 did the same... After you have the finalists you go through the pink point line and do pole bending (through the green dots, and again can be poles/cones/jump wings...) and we'd do 5 laps around, the the first ones are the winners. Also some rules: if you raise to a canter you have to let the one behind you infront, if you don't do the pole bending correctly, you go back and do them again/are disqualified. You can also get creative and add your own rules!