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11/03/2024

Piaffe - How Quick can we Train?🐴

It’s not just about your horse being able to shift their weight back and move their legs in the classic piaffe way, it’s about ensuring our equine partners develop the strength and muscle coordination needed for this elegant movement.

I have seen a lot of advertisements recently, stating that it is not only possible, but easily attainable for a horse to learn piaffe in a few months. But it’s not about this. I’m sure I could teach my horse to move his legs in the classic piaffe pattern in a few minutes. That doesn’t make it right or correct, though. The reason why teaching advanced movements take so long is not because it takes forever for the horse to learn, but it’s because it takes years for a horse to be correctly muscled and for the ligaments to adapt to the stress and strain.

Piaffe is about a horse having the musculoskeletal strength to carry the weight behind, whilst also maintaining a positive and relaxed posture. The horses in these advertisements have visible hypertrophy, but also atrophy of key dorsal line muscles that should be engaged during this movement.

Horses that piaffe without the adequate strength can place additional strain on the base of their neck, poll, distal limb ligaments like the suspensory, hamstrings, lumbar back, sacroiliac joints… the list goes on.

We must prioritise physical well-being over quick results, and recognise when a horse is struggling physically… or is actually just not currently ready and capable for higher level movements. This information can not only be applied to the piaffe, but to other dressage movements and jumping.

What are your thoughts? 💭

11/10/2022

This is dressage. Somewhere along the way, the sport I love got hijacked by many unfriendly influences: tension, apparel companies, repetitive training in stressful environments, and so on. But remember dear enthusiasts, this is what dressage should look like-- horses that are relaxed, comfortable, eager, and friendly. Horses that enjoy strolling around on the trails, having a good gallop, or bending around a circle. THIS is dressage. Let's not forget.

07/09/2022

As an industry we are obsessed with head and neck position; is it too high, too low, in front or behind the vertical? Often an uneducated eye can be misled by a horse who looks to be working ‘in a frame’ or ‘on the bit’, but the development of your horse’s muscles do not lie.

16/06/2022
Just så
08/05/2022

Just så

Walking into shape---

Somewhere down underground at the massive Chicago airport are blinking lights and a weird mechanical voice---“Keep walking. Keep walking. The moving sidewalk is ending. Keep walking.”

Which is what I spent four hours today doing, walking and walking, first Catch A Cloud, then Roxie, then Lilly, up hill, down hill, winding back and forth, get off, put one away, tack up the next, wash, rinse, repeat---.

There is nothing dramatic or glamorous about the first month or so of conditioning. Everything has to be carefully and slowly brought back to speed, muscles, tendons, ligaments, hooves, bones, heart, lungs, and there is no fast track way that I know of that substitutes for active walking on terrain.

Base building is critically important, though, because once that has been put in place, it becomes much safer for the horse when we add more pace and harder effort. Push too hard, too soon, at your horse’s peril.

Once again, Shakespeare got it right. John of Gaunt, in Richard 2nd, says,

“ His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are
short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;”

No “violent fires” of galloping around the countryside on an unprepared horse. Smart trainers build to last. Poor trainers reveal their lack of horsemanship by burning out their horses.

It may not be thrilling to put in the long slow hours, but it pays off if you can bring yourself to do it right.

19/04/2022
100%
02/01/2022

100%

19/12/2021

Instead of the horse accepting the contact and coming "on to the bit" as a result of an active hindquarters and a swinging,supple back there is another method that is widely used today.

It is called "Precipitous Flexion" which means direct vertical flexion of the head to make the horse come to the bit. This method blocks the back and causes the neck to break over in the area around C3. The vertebrae of the neck are not stacked but instead are broken.
It is now impossible for the head to "hang like a chandelier" from the occipital bone.
The poll will not be the highest point and a bulging of the muscles of the neck can be seen around the area of C3.
This area will then become inflamed and rock hard.

The horse does not come to the bit as a result of rhythm and suppleness through his body because this is not possible because the horse is blocked.

"Precipitous Flexion" often causes a loss of purity in the horses gaits and often the steps will became irregular.
The back will be dropped or hyperflexed and lacking in suppleness and elasticity.

Anything that happens in the hindend of the horse has a direct impact on the front end of the horse.

Also anything that happens in the front end of the horse has a direct impact on the hindquarters of the horse.
Words shared from Sheryl Green- thanks 🙏
Illustration below- precipitous flexion on the left- correct and classical on the right

25/10/2021

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