Emma et sa DP

Dressage | Medium

🎯 Keep the horse supple.

Dressage | Easy

Introduce flying changes

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 | Medium

Variations in frame and head height help challenge the horse’s balance and therefore the tone of his thoracic sling.

Dressage | Medium

La variation d'amplitude est un excellant indicateur de la tonicité de la sangle thoracique. Cette variation met l'équilibre du cheval à l'épreuve et lui demande donc de "se tenir" donc de maintenir son centre de gravité, et donc de solliciter sa sangle thoracique.

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.

Dressage | Hard

Halt – rein-back – depart in collected trot

Dressage | Medium

Alternating a counter-shoulder-fore and a shoulder-fore down the long side

Dressage | Easy

Asking for intra-gait transitions in all three gaits on a 20-meter circle

Dressage | Easy

Letting the reins slip and varying your horse’s frame on a 20-meter circle

Dressage | Easy

Alternating simple transitions through all three gaits on a 20-meter circle

Dressage | Easy

Changing your horse’s bend on a 20-meter circle

Dressage | Medium

Achieve smooth transitions and regain straightness after riding a circle.

Groundwork | Easy

Accustom the horse to various types of footing, by adding increasing levels of difficulty.

Dressage | Easy

Get a nice and soft circle with good contact on the inside rein. When slowing down to walk, make sure your horse is straight and still has kept that forwardness and doesn't slow down more than necessary.