Impulsion & Contact
Exercises
These training sessions are all focussed around creating a forward thinking horse that responds to your aids, has a consistent, soft contact, listens to your half halts, is engaged and active in their hindlegs and performs smooth, responsive transitions.
Each session includes a written explanation, diagrams, the aids to use, what to look out for and problem fixers to help you solve any problem you may come across as you do the exercise.
Improve your medium trot
This is a fantastic exercise for improving your straightness and engagement in your medium trots as well as the transitions into and out of them.
Riding a half halt
This exercise introduces the concept of the half halt to teach your horse to take the weight behind and begin to hold and balance themselves
Getting your horse to take the contact
This is a fantastic exercise to teach your horse how to take the contact down and out. Perfect for those who find their horses get tight or come behind the vertical
Transitions
This is an exercise that you should be incorporating (in some way!) into every training session you do!
Transitions Within The Paces
This is fantastic exercise for teaching collection as well as getting your horse more responsive to your leg and seat aids.
Getting the correct canter lead
A helpful exercise to get your horse striking off on the correct canter lead every time
Creating a Consistent Contact
This exercise both teaches you how to have still and steady hands that your horse wants to lean against as
well as teaching your horse how to consistently push into the contact.
Improving the Impulsion in the shoulder in
An exercise that improves your horses activity and impulsion in the shoulder in as well as being a great engagement exercise.
Creating the Right Reaction to your Leg
This exercise is all about getting your horse to react forward when you put your leg on.
Creating a desire to go forward
This exercise is all about your horse moving forward without you having to use your leg to keep them going.
Teaching your horse to wait in the corners
This is an exercise that is perfect for horses that rush and don't wait for the rider.
Improving the activity in the half pass
This is a great exercise for adding more engagement, activity and cadence to your half passes
