Circle - Straightness Training
How to ride a proper circle with your horse. Valuable tips and information on how to teach your horse the circle on the longe, in hand and riding.
Trainer's Corner: How to Ride a Good Circle - Horse Training - The ...
2022年12月23日 · Circle Exercises. Let’s start with an exercise I like to do with all my training horses and in my lessons. This exercise helps with building “guide” and getting the horse to relax. It also strengthens a horse’s muscles. Circle exercises are great for working on your feel of the horse’s body position, as well as your own body position.
Ride an Accurate 20-Meter Circle - Practical Horseman
2024年10月8日 · International five-star eventer Colleen Rutledge shares an exercise to help you to improve your circles. Focusing on the details of riding correctly shaped 20-meter circles is important for two reasons: Firstly, if you don’t ride accurate 20-meter circles in your dressage test, you’re throwing away points.
How to (And Why) Ride a Good Circle/Volte ⋆ How To Dressage
When ridden correctly, circles provide the following benefits: Improve your horse’s suppleness (especially lateral suppleness). Help to improve your horse’s straightness and body alignment. Help to strengthen your horse’s hindquarters. Encourage your horse’s inside hind leg to step further underneath his center of gravity (engagement).
Circular Logic - Horse Illustrated
2017年10月10日 · Use the following exercises to find your way to perfect circles, and your horse’s body will thank you in return. Exercise No. 1: Circle-Square This exercise helps keep the horse organized between the guideposts of the rider’s legs, especially the outside leg that shows him the boundary of the circle.
Perfect Circles - Horse and Rider
2014年8月13日 · Use this exercise to hone your horse’s guide and force yourself to focus when traveling on a circle. When you can guide your horse on a perfectly symmetrical circle, you show a level of skill and focus that not all riders possess. That level of steering is essential in the show pen, but is also valuable for recreational riders.
How to Use Circles in Dressage Training ⋆ How To Dressage
Circles are an exceptionally useful training tool and are fundamental to your horse’s progression. When ridden correctly, circles provide the following benefits: Allows the rider to assess the horse’s responsiveness to the leg, seat, rein, and body positioning aids. Helps to slow down an eager horse and control the tempo of the pace.
Dressage Schooling Notebook: An Exercise of Circles
2019年1月11日 · Improve your horse’s straightness and contact with this dressage training exercise from Gerhard Politz. Walk or trot your horse on a 20-meter circle in the direction that he feels hollow—where he tries to avoid contact. At the …
Brad Barkemeyer: The Perfect Circle Drill - Horse and Rider
2022年9月22日 · Being able to walk a perfect circle is no easy task. Brad Barkemeyer breaks down the basics of this exercise and how it’ll help your horse stay collected without losing any forward motion.
Mastering Dressage Exercises of Circles and Squares
2020年12月22日 · Two simple geometry dressage exercises that increase your horse's balance are circles and squares. Learn how to master both with this book excerpt. 844-330-6373