strides

Variations on amplitude at a canter

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This exercise is a very good gymnastic preparing the rider as much as the horse for jumping. It makes the rider work on different possible lengths canter’s stride to achieve the number of strides required, while favouring the horse’s understanding.

Niveau de difficulté:

Confirmé

Goal:

The goal is to go over a line of cavalettis varying the length of the canter’s stride, not from far away, but in between the set-up.
The rider will have to anticipate his actions while paying attention to the path and his position.
The exercise could seem easy but it requires, in fact, a high level of concentration from the rider, and very adjustable horse.

Progress:

Michel rides the exercise on Vivaldi du Seigneur , a 7 YO horse (Haras de Hus). His student Marine rides the same exercise on Charles De Gaulle, another stallion owned by the Haras de Hus.

Variant / Progression:

The best would be to go one or two times counting the strides, and then to adapt the canter to achieve a set goal, for example 5 and 6 strides, then 6 and 5 strides.

Lesson:

Le dispositif
Le mieux est de faire 1 ou 2 passages en comptant ses foulées et
d’adapter ensuite son galop pour réaliser un objectif précis, par
exemple, 5 et 6, puis 6 et 5.

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Cours associés

Cours associés:

Improving the horse’s length of stride

The quality canter

Learn how to count your strides

Constant rhythm and a cadenced canter

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Learn how to count your strides

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The goal of this exercise is to vary the number of strides between two cavalettis. The ideal is to have a balanced canter in the entry zone, so it’s important to adjust the canter from afar to attain the contracted number of strides determined beforehand.

Niveau de difficulté:

Intermédiaire

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Progress:

You can start with a contract of 8 strides, and then increase the amplitude for 7 strides, then 6...

The horse
The regularity of the paces - necessarily learned while training on the flat - must be maintained when riding over poles on the ground. The same applies for the possible variations of the canter: lengthening and shortening the stride.

The rider
During this exercise, the rider must concentrate on the quality of the canter when approaching from a distance, throughout the exercise and also when landing after the last fence. One may or may not allow the horse to change legs; what is most important is to remain straight and jump the poles or fences in the middle. In doing this, be as precise as when riding a dressage test.

Variant / Progression:

There is no change in the height of the fences. One is above all looking for improvement in the quality of the canter and in controlling the cadence. It is instead possible to vary the number of strides between the fences or poles on the ground to verify the rider’s ability to control his horse’s speed – such as riding over the first pole at 10 km/h and the second at
20 km/h maintaining a constant speed while approaching. In the same frame of mind, repeat the exercise doing the opposite: riding over the first pole at 20 km/h and the second at 10 km/h.

Lesson:

Solving a few problems :
If the strides are irregular: you can improve matters using poles on the ground to mark each stride between the first and the last poles.
If corners are cut while approaching the line, place 2 skittles or poles at
the take-off and landing points forming a corridor (10 metres before and
10 metres after the line) and make yourself approach and canter on after the exercise in a straight line.

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