AnaïsSissi

Dressage | Easy

Lateral displacement of the shoulders

Cavalettis | Easy

Handiness and accuracy of the line

Jumping | Easy

Learn how to maintain the same canter and straightness

Groundwork | Easy

In this exercise, we will teach the horse to jump calmly, so that when you later ask him under saddle, he already has a confident foundation.

Groundwork | Hard

This exercise helps your horse: - Challenge his lateral balance - Activate the thoracic sling alternately left and right by shifting his body weight first onto the right shoulder, then onto the left

Lunging | Easy

This exercise helps your horse to: - Challenge his lateral balance, engaging his thoracic sling alternately to the right and left - Challenge his longitudinal balance, also engaging the thoracic sling - Take responsibility for maintaining his own balance

Lunging | Medium

Linking tight curves and straight lines on the lunge helps to: - challenge the horse’s lateral balance (and therefore engage the thoracic sling alternately on each side) - encourage the horse to take responsibility for maintaining his own balance

Lunging | Easy

or your horse to properly engage his thoracic sling, you’ll need him to be: - relaxed - in a rather low-head posture The spiral exercise helps develop lateral balance, which means the horse mobilizes his thoracic sling alternately on the right and left sides. Because this exercise involves riding on curves, often quite tight ones, be careful not to ask for it too long or too often. If your horse is young, has trouble finding his own balance, or has physical issues that show up on tight curves, limit this exercise to a few minutes each direction and prioritize wide curves (like the large spiral).

Dressage | Easy

Serpentine patterns are excellent exercises to challenge the horse’s lateral balance and therefore the tone of his thoracic sling, thanks to the continuous alternation from right to left.

Dressage | Customizable

The walk-trot transition is a good indicator of the tone of the thoracic sling. If your horse tries to avoid using its thoracic sling, the quality of your transition will suffer.

Groundwork | Medium

Cue and refine lateral movements until your horse can perform them over a ground pole, to improve precision, hoof control, and desensitisation.

Groundwork | Easy

Teaching the horse to move backward toward you by aspiration, meaning to step back while coming toward the human located behind him.

Groundwork | Medium

Suppleness, guidance, foot placement control

TREC | Easy

Improve cardiovascular fitness.

Lunging | Hard

Working on suppleness, altering the circles size with lateral movement.

Groundwork | Hard

To improve the horse's suppleness and control.

Lunging | Medium

Use ground poles to perform transitions.

Equifeel | Medium

Make the horse move forward, stop, and back up in an elevated pole corridor without the rider moving.

Equifeel | Customizable

Modification of the federation's figure eight exercise. Perform 2 consecutive figure eights.

Equifeel | Medium

Work on cue precision, shift weight onto the hindquarters, improve boldness, and manage distance on the lunge line.