They now add ground poles, teaching the first horse to relax and reach down as he trots the poles. He begins by being resistant but eventually relaxes and stretches, and Ashley offers suggestions for how to have the exercise go better from the beginning.

The second horse works on keeping contact on the outside rein. Ashley explains the difference of doing this exercise with a more refined, light horse and how the rider needs to adapt for that ride.

The canter cavalletti rails on a curve are next. With the chestnut, Ashley emphasizes getting him relaxed and stretching over the cavalletti using counter flexion to square the shoulder to the turn. She gives great suggestions for finding the right distance and creating the right shape of canter ...

With all the previous work, the dark bay shows great regularity in the pace through the exercise with an active hind end. Ashley reviews the lesson with the riders, picking out the major point for each of them.

Ingo Pape talks about providing young horses with variety in their training and leads this session on cavaletti and ground pole work In the warm up he stresses the importance of using the corners to bend the horse around the inside leg He asks that this youngster not be sticky in his response to ...

Rider Position Caveletti work to imporve mobility of the back with Arthur KottasHeldenberg

The use of cavaletti to encourage the horse to swing through his back Focus on the basics which is important at all levels

German Olympian and World Champion event rider Ingrid Klimke explains how to first introduce the horse to the cavalletti. She demonstrates how to walk and trot over polls and how to use your position. Placement between poles should be approximately 1.20m or 5-feet apart approximately.

Next, Ingrid discusses Intermediate pole work. She explains the difference between sitting trot and posting trot over the poles, and discusses whether this work can be used with older horses. She also answers questions on whether to raise the height of the poles and the spacing between them.

Next, Ingrid has the rider ask for reach from the shoulder and looks to get the hind end to step under while focusing on straightness and improving the gaits. They next move into working on walk pirouettes, which improve by incorporating the cavallettis.

Questions are answered about equipment used over cavalletti while longing and how to do a half halt. They end with introducing a horse who is new to cavallettis.

In this section the horse keeps wanting to jump over the cavalletti. Ingrid gives the description of how to take and give and the utmost importance of it. Advanced techniques for cavalletti begin.

Finally, they go to four raised poles in trot and you can see the horse's exuberance. They then go to canter over the poles.

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