Basic Soft

"Get it on the piece!" "Round!" "Demonstrate self carriage!" "Impulsion more!" You hear The commands from Dressage (event and hunter / jumper) instructors All the time. But sometimes the terms can be confusing Confused with other terms. Here, we define Basic conditions, hoping logical order and fine Alphabetically, so you can get a better understanding of what Your teacher wants you to do.

Coach Self: get Your goal is to move the horse inside the frame Properly balanced without relying on you to keep a horse Him your name. In other words, he carries himself By itself. (You can check this by providing with the Reins as some horses just to keep themselves Their riders hands.)
Objection: When the horse Against HIV rider refuses to do as asked
Flexibility: When the horse responds to the request of the rider to bend Give bending without resistance.
The passage: the horse moves Forward with the energy to the rider. He accepts the connection Some even ask to contact the rider hands. Is not resistant to contact. He did not come with a little over his head Raised or suck behind the passage, refusing to evacuate.
Contact: Constant communication with your horse using your hands Through the reins a bit. The feeling is consistent, active Alive. Think of it as maintaining the same weight Your hands.
Collapse / roundness: bending with flexibility Of the horse in his body (usually with reference Express the survey but also a means of neck, back, stifle And also mortgage). Some refer to it as riding One of the horses round.
Bending / bend: when the horse Creates a curve through a balanced body through the spine To tail. Bending creates more flexibility, as well as mixed Of lateral movements of hind legs. Think It's like the arc of a circle give you an imaginary ride On. Bend your right if you turn your head Looks fantastic in the center of the circle in your field of vision Do you see your nose are the horse (see one eye) And posterior (see with different eyes).
Engagement: Think about it as well as the rear end tracking But with the added bending and stifle mortgage. This Causes a horse to "sit" more by lowering the buttocks. The right to accept the engagement, you must ride a horse Your right thing, come on and work towards self - Carriage.
Lateral movements: movements such as yield Leg or shoulder requiring a horse to cross his legs while Moving away (usually) forward.
Impulsion: energy Forward. With the horse moving his hind legs under him Well, "the follow-up," more energy goes pushed Forward.
Suspension: Photo section Dressage ... Lofty trot Where the hooves seem off the ground more often Than on. With greater suspension, more energy Energy to take up a collection of horse often Rather than forward, though still moving forward. Step The horse looks shorter, because there are more mountains to Upward, more height, easily.
Collection: engagement if You take a horse carriage to myself, then add He and his Flex Hocks well under him, Impulsion, he still moves With energy forward, suspension, so the energy is collected from More going forward, you create a framework that step Short because of increased height. Thighs and lower frame Short. This is not to be confused with going slower as many are beginning Think. I still have the energy it forward, just Compressed and sent upward. Think Piaffe, the trot instead.
Through / Throughness / drive through: a horse steps well Under himself with his hind legs, the energy Travels from the back, creating a round back with a belly up, So over the neck, creating a calm and softly rounded neck, Bending the calm in the survey, down to the section. This route That the energy going, and if energy is blocked everywhere One horse is not going through.

If all this sounds Too confusing, just remember the basics first Very: go forward with the relaxation and submission, and the rest Imports.

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