Dec 08 2020
I love to walk! Riding the walk will improve the quality of the relationship between horse and rider. In the walk, the risk for resistances is considerably lower and the chances for establishing a light, soft contact are considerably higher. “The most important of all the gaits—and the gait most often neglected in the training …
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Dec 07 2020
Pedaling (following the horse’s rib cage). Improving Your Horse’s Walk How pedaling can help your horse develop rhythmic suppleness in his back. The walk has no suspension and, therefore, no momentum to help your horse keep the rhythm as in the jog or the lope. In the walk, your horse’s rib cage swings once …
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Dec 05 2020
Lope over the Octagon If the horse is reluctant to stretch up and forward in the walk, jog or the lope, you can lunge him or ride him over the Octagon poles. placing poles on the ground can be helpful. Octagon Ground Poles work also helps to keep your schooling sessions varied, encourages concentration, and …
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Dec 02 2020
Cowboy Dressage Challenge Court. Ground Pole stretches If the horse is reluctant to stretch forward in the walk, placing poles on the ground can be helpful. Ground Pole work also helps to keep your schooling sessions varied, encourages concentration, and makes the horse think. Place 4 poles on the quarter line ground in a straight …
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Dec 02 2020
The Cowboy Dressage Lope Pirouette “what goes up must come down” is a phrase that means things that rise must eventually return to the earth due to gravity. The Lope Pirouette is a high level movement, that requires balance, suspension, suppleness, listening and collection from the horse. To have a good Lope pirouette, we must …
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Dec 01 2020
Cowboy Dressage Challenge Court. Ground Pole stretches If the horse is reluctant to stretch forward in the walk, placing poles on the ground can be helpful. Ground Pole work also helps to keep your schooling sessions varied, encourages concentration, and makes the horse think. Place 4 poles on the quarter line ground in a straight …
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Jul 22 2020
Engagement Vs Disengagement When the horse’s right hind leg is engaging and pushing forward (propulsion), the horse’s left hind leg is disengaging (braking). In Cowboy Dressage, horses are encouraged to shift their weight more to their hindquarters, which enables lightness of the forehand. While the front legs carry the weight, the hind legs provide propulsion. …
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Jul 15 2020
Diagonal Advanced Placement or DAP. When learning the foot falls of the equine gait I was always thankful for the simple jog. The nice 2 beat diagonal gait seems to me to be the easiest to comprehend for both the amateur horseman and the more experienced horseman. Counting strides and foot falls mentally is tough …
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May 11 2020
Are you Loping, Cantering or Galloping? The Lope is the western gait! The lope is the three-beat rocking-horse gait for which the Western horse is so widely known.(fig.1.) It is soft in its cadence and also without suspension. The lope may be either right- or left-“leaded” with the lead of the gait being assigned to …
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Apr 29 2020
Get Framed! The goal of good horsemanship is to engage your horse’s hind legs to create energy, and welcome it with your hands. This develops a connection from his hind end to his front end, helping him to move forward in self carriage and soft feel. Do not forget that hips and legs drive the …
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