Help Your Horse Relax and Focus with this Exercise
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
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Is your horse tense, nervous, or distracted? Do you ever find yourself riding circle after circle and you just don’t know what to do to get your horse to listen? I have the perfect exercise for you!
In this week’s video, I will be demonstrating the 6-Circle Exercise, which is a great pattern to help get your horse relaxed, supple, and on your aids! Before we get into the exercise, I also have a new Free PDF on Patterns and Figures, with five of my favorite patterns inside that you might enjoy! Patterns and figures give you a plan and purpose for your ride and are a great way to help you train your horse and get them to listen to you.
Now, back to the exercise. One of the best exercises to manage speed, and to help your horse become supple and relaxed are circles. With the 6-Circle Exercise, you will be riding a shallow loop serpentine with 10-meter circles at each point of the serpentine - one at the beginning, one at X, and one at the end of the serpentine. This is a great pattern because involves lots of bending and changes of direction, so your horse doesn’t have time to think about being tense or nervous. Plus, it gives you as the rider a purpose and helps you become clearer with your aids.
As you are riding this exercise, pay attention to the bend in your horse’s body. Remember, the aids for bend are inside leg at the girth moving the horse into your outside aids, outside leg behind the girth and outside rein for turning, and inside rein for flexion. The bend should always start from your inside leg. If you have a good bend, you should be able to see your horse’s inside eye and a nice curve in their neck, with your inside hand away from the neck and your outside hand by the withers.
Watch the video where I demonstrate the 6-Circle Exercise and talk more about getting your horse bending, and how patterns and figures can help you and your horse! Please share this video with your friends if you find it helpful - it really helps me out!
Happy riding!
Amelia
0:00 Intro
1:00 Riding the Pattern
1:40 Bending
3:11 Changing Directions
4:28 End of Video - Розваги
Download the Free Patterns and Figures Guide: amelianewcombdressage.com/lead-gen-patterns-figures-o/?UA-cam&General
This looks like so much fun, would love for you to incorporate more of these types of pattern exercises into your uploads!
Thank you for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed!
What a brilliant exercise! Shall try to remember this for when I have my next horse. Confined to barracks at present but your videos help keep me sane 😊
All excellent thank you! The GoPro is super helpful!
This is a terrific exercise! Thank you for posting these very helpful videos!
You're so welcome!
Another awesome exercise! Thank you! And also thank you for the view of your horse’s neck - that’s very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Yes in combination with something else working on (in my head), this totally worked to prevent rushing!!! Thank you!!!
Great exercise! Thanks 😊
You're so welcome!
My dressage arena was flooded this morning but I adapted the concept in the space I had and rode it several times. We both got very relaxed and focused, even when an escaped pony came running by, which would normally completely distract my horse. I was also thinking about your 'Promise to my horse' and was just thinking, 'we're busy with this now and we're safe, so we're going to just ignore him'
That is awesome!
Thanks a lot for this exercise for focus and relax our horse!
Let me know how it goes!
This is genius! I love this sort of advice and training info. This is so helpful to both horse and rider.
So glad you enjoyed!
Love this I’m going to try this today… ❤
Great! Thank you
Glad you liked it!
Love it. Thank you
So glad!
very good !!!
Thank you - awesome exercise :)
Glad you liked it!
I will definitely try this as my horse tends to speed up alot
Good luck!
Which Go Pro do you have?
What would happen if you only used spurred leg aid when you require a change of speed or direction? Do you think there might something wrong with how modern dressagists use leg aid? Have a good day - bim bim bum bim bim bim ..... Bim!
You are right that the spur should only be used as an auxiliary aid and done with care!