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Calm, Forward and Straight must always serve as a guideline during the training and the order should not be interchanged. On this subject, all Riding Schools worldwide agree. These schools diverge only in their style due to the culture of their own country. In these volumes, I recapture and explain the foundations provided by the great Masters. I have provided appropriate exercises to recreate, develop, and enhance the horse's natural gaits that should be the common denominator of all riding styles and training disciplines, including Dressage, Jumpers, Hunters, Western, Pleasure, and many others. Book One includes the training progression from the beginning of the elementary level. The training mastered in Book One will be necessary to accomplish the collected and extended gaits, pirouette at the canter, tempe flying changes of lead, piaffe and passage in Book Two. Although different training methods can produce similar results, a rider must know what to do, how to do it, and, perhaps most important, why he/she is doing it. The fundamentals are explained in Book One and should be mastered for the simple reason that what a horse has learned in the early stages of his education will remain with him for his entire life. Later, should a training problem occur, one can always revisit these fundamentals, review, improve, and perfect them. This work study explains how to Divide and Conquer the horses body parts. To be able to properly perform the exercises, the horse should be able to find the appropriate head position independent of the rider. If these exercises, alone, do not result in the horse being able to find the appropriate head and body position, I explain the prerequisites to correctly set the horses head: cession (yielding) of the mouth and the flexion of the poll.
Calm, Forward and Straight must always serve as a guideline during the training and the order should not be interchanged. On this subject, all Riding Schools worldwide agree. These schools diverge only in their style due to the culture of their own country.
In these volumes, I recapture and explain the foundations provided by the great Masters. I have provided appropriate exercises to recreate, develop, and enhance the horse’s natural gaits that should be the common denominator of all riding styles and training disciplines, including Dressage, Jumpers, Hunters, Western, Pleasure, and many others. Book One includes the training progression from the beginning of the elementary level. The training mastered in Book One will be necessary to accomplish the collected and extended gaits, pirouette at the canter, tempe flying changes of lead, piaffe and passage in Book Two.
Although different training methods can produce similar results, a rider must know what to do, how to do it, and, perhaps most important, why he/she is doing it. The fundamentals are explained in Book One and should be mastered for the simple reason that what a horse has learned in the early stages of his education will remain with him for his entire life. Later, should a training problem occur, one can always revisit these fundamentals, review, improve, and perfect them.
This work study explains how to Divide and Conquer the horse's body parts. To be able to properly perform the exercises, the horse should be able to find the appropriate head position independent of the rider. If these exercises, alone, do not result in the horse being able to find the appropriate head and body position, I explain the prerequisites to correctly set the horse's head: cession (yielding) of the mouth and the flexion of the poll.
Avant ProposPrefaceIntroductionImportant Instruction ReviewInitiation to Dressage Principles - The Rider's AidsAdvice for Trainers and Riders before Beginning the Training StudyThe Rider's PositionSeatHow does the rider obtain a good seat?Where should the rider sit in the saddle?How to place the seat in the saddleHolding the ReinsThe AidsExercises for the RiderLower Body Exercises for the Cox-Femoral Joints and Lower Back while MountedExercises for the AnklesUpper Body Exercises or the Shoulders and Lower Back while MountedConcepts in Training of the HorseImpulsion - FlexibilityImpulsionFlexibilityObedience to the Rider's Leg ActionsLongitudinal and Lateral MovementsLesson One - The Learning Phase-Initiation Period ("Equi-robic" Exercises)Learning PhaseA. Transitions Walk-Stop-WalkAdjusting the ReinsTransition from Stop to WalkTeaching a Lazy Horse to be Obedient to the LegsB. Zigzag (Serpentine or Slalom)Rein ActionsDirect ReinDirect Rein of OppositionIndirect ReinIndirect Rein of Opposition in Front of the WithersIndirect Rein of Opposition Behind the WithersC. Lengthening and Shortening the WalkD. Moving the HaunchesE. Rein BackF. Changing DirectionsLesson Two - The Working Phase, Beginning of Dressage, "Low School Dressage"The TrotA. Longitudinal Exercise: Transitions Trot-Walk-TrotB. Lateral Exercise: ZigzagsC. Longitudinal Exercise: Lengthening and Shortening the Strides at the TrotD. Lateral Exercise: Moving the HaunchesLesson Three -- Further StudyThe CanterProgression to generate the right lead canter by applying the outside lateral aidsProgression to generate the right lead canter by applying the inside diagonal aidsProgression to generate the right lead canter by applying the inside lateral aidsProgression to obtain the right lead canter from the walkProgression for the downward transition from the canter to the walkPhase One. Steady the PacePhase Two. Shorten the Canter StridesPhase Three. Lengthening the Canter StridesExercises to Improve the CanterCounter-canterLesson Four -- ExercisesExercise One. Transitions, Changing GaitsExercise Two. ZigzagsExercise Three. Lengthening and Shortening the GaitsExercise Four. Moving the HaunchesLesson Five-On the BitLesson Six-Practical ExercisesFriendly AdviceEpilogue
