Full Description
Offering a wide variety of ideas to spice up training routines, this handbook provides fresh exercises for practicing classical-riding basics. Dressage fundamentals are indispensable for keeping a horse fit and healthy, but forcing them to go through the same movements over and over while working in the arena can lead to boredom. This guide provides upbeat patterns and exercises that take the necessary task of essential schooling and add variety and challenge to everyday workouts, beat the dressage practice blues, and get the job done. Equestrians looking for new tools to add to their training arsenal and those looking to create a supple and gymnasticized horse will delight in this fun collection of practice routines and photographs.
Contents
Preface: How This Books Came to Be
The Right Path: The Training Scale
The Aids: The Rider's Toolbox
The Arena: The Rider's Workshop
The Movements and Their Variations: Training the Horse Appropriately
Turning Basic Dressage Figures into Creative Exercises
Incorporating Lateral Movements
'Meaningful Training'
Thanks
Index
