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Gain precision on the serpentine.

Improve leg-yielding

Vary the stride length at the canter.

Work on the sequence of straightness and bending in curves.

This exercise aims to work on turns and refine landings.

Successfully maintain impulsion and bend.

Work on curves and rein aids

Work your horse's back

Work on a precise course

Bending on both reins

Work on direction by passing over ground poles or raised poles.

Work on aids and perform flying lead changes

Achieve straightness and bending

Learn/reinforce the movement of the hindquarters

Create balanced loops and approach the jump straight.

Improve track accuracy.

Successfully vary and control stride length.

Successfully alter the diameter of your figure-eight, focusing on changing aids and circle aids.

Achieving straightness upon exiting a turn and working on lead changes over the jumps.

Round the horse.

– Work on riding curves and landing on the correct lead – Check the horse’s honesty over fences – ...

Improve accuracy by aiming for the center of the poles.

Maintain a steady gait on the figure eight and perform transitions between the two poles.

Keeping your horse sharp while doing this exercise

Halt at a precise spot

Develop proprioception and improve trot-halt transitions.

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

Stay on the inner track at walk and trot

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

Changing the diameter of your circle in all three gaits

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

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

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

The walk-trot transition is a good indicator of the tone of the thoracic sling. If your horse tries...

Serpentine patterns are excellent exercises to challenge the horse’s lateral balance and therefore t...

or your horse to properly engage his thoracic sling, you’ll need him to be: - relaxed - in a rathe...

Linking tight curves and straight lines on the lunge helps to: - challenge the horse’s lateral bala...

This exercise helps your horse to: - Challenge his lateral balance, engaging his thoracic sling alt...

Lateral displacement of the shoulders