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Dressage | Easy

Lateral displacement of the shoulders

Jumping | Easy

Confirm the basic responses (steering, impulsion, flexion)

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.

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

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

Dressage | Medium

Changing the diameter of your circle in all three gaits

Dressage | Easy

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

Dressage | Easy

Stay on the inner track at walk and trot

Lunging | Hard

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

Dressage | Easy

Develop proprioception and improve trot-halt transitions.

Dressage | Customizable

Halt at a precise spot

Dressage | Easy

Keeping your horse sharp while doing this exercise

Dressage | Easy

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

Dressage | Easy

Improve accuracy by aiming for the center of the poles.

Jumping | Medium

– Work on riding curves and landing on the correct lead – Check the horse’s honesty over fences – Increase the reactivity of the forehand during the jump