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Control and jumping movement break-down

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Abonné

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Quaresse joined Michel Robert’s yard a couple of days ago. She’s quite anxious and needs to get used to her new environment. The goal of this session is to have her work in a relaxed and joyful mood to improve the flow of energy in her body.

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Confirmé

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Quaresse joined Michel Robert’s yard a couple of days ago. She’s quite anxious and needs to get used to her new environment.

The goal of this session is to have her work in a relaxed and joyful mood to improve the flow of energy in her body.
Jumping few natural fences at the beginning of the session enables the mare to be more attentive and encourages her to break-down the motion of jumping without rushing to the poles.

Progress:

The session starts on a bank located in the yard’s field, going up and down the bank. Marine, who rides Quaresse, must really keep her on a straight line without looking for her spot. The goal is to encourage the mare to take the time to break-down her movements still letting her “look at jumps” to allow her to stretch her neck on the different phases of the jump.

The work session continues by jumping a small line of natural fences. At the slightest fear, the mare has a tendency to speed up and eliminate some of the strides. After a few exercises and thanks to Michel advice, Marine succeeds in having her mare gain back her serenity.

The next exercises incorporate a jumping line set up to incite Marine to keep control of her mare. The last step of the work session enables Marine to verify Quaresse’s behaviour in front of some “looky” fences like liverpools of different colours…

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Gymnastic exercises over a jump with Nénuphar Jac

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Abonné

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Nénuphar is a very energetic, if sometimes nervous horse. The goal is to ''harden'' the horse's physical and mental ability in order to improve his jumping technique and to incite him to approach obstacles calmly.

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Intermédiaire

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Michel is conducting a gymnastic exercise over a jump in order to try to relax his horse to the utmost. Michel himself must work with as much mental and physical relaxation as possible, all the while remaining in control of speed and accuracy of line. This exercise is based on a repetition carried out while calm and with good humour, but always while requiring a good level of effort and determination from the rider. It is an exercise that is in-between flatwork and jumping. The rider maintains an attitude similar to that of a dressage rider.

The reins, however, are long enough to permit the horse to stretch his neck out as much as possible, especially during the approach phases.

The exercise over cavalettis and the line of cross-poles encourages a regular canter, and the horse to be right over the middle of the obstacles. You can notice Michel's relaxation and his hands accompanying the movement almost to an exaggerated degree during the take-off and over the obstacles. The horse has practically always a regular, constant canter.

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On the line, over the double-oxer which is first taken in five strides, then in four, Michel always tries to keep control of Nénuphar while staying relaxed. Notice that when the obstacles are bigger, the distance of 17m50 must be covered in four strides in order not to ask too much of the horse. However, the rider must maintain the same degree of control, accuracy, and rhythm.

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