When schooling piaffe, the horse needs to close the trot with the muscles flexed. The rider needs to hold the contact and ride the horse up to that. If the horse is willing to hold the contact, he can come back into a more collected trot. The horse is brought back little by little until the rider feels it is too much. Then the horse can go forward into a regular trot.
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Advanced Lateral Work Part 1
In this clinic session, Shannon works with a rider focusing on suppling through lateral work. They warm-up in walk doing half pass, haunches-in, renvers and walk pirouette. The horse tends to hide behind the vertical so Shannon recommends riding him more forward than the rider thinks she needs to...
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Advanced Lateral Work Part 2
They continue to work on the canter half pass and haunches-in on a circle. In a short-coupled horse, you need to create more bend behind the saddle instead of in front of the saddle. The goal with repetition is that each time it gets a little bit better and be sure to reward the horse when he res...
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Advanced Lateral Work Part 3
Going to the right, they work on the same elements. It is important to keep the energy in the canter, but it needs to be more up and down than moving forward. Shannon suggests that if it too easy, the rider isnt challenging themselves enough. Coming out of a movement is as much of a transition as...
