LiveLoveRidex
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I ride my horse without my trainer sometimes, but I normally don't jump without her. What are some good flatwork exercises I can do that actually HELP and are fairly easy to do by myself?
I'm an intermediate rider but I just do regular equitation, no fancy stuff like leg yields, shoulder-in, haunches in, etc. I have a 14.2hh Quarter Horse mare.
I already know all the basic ones everyone says:
• no-stirrup work
• bareback
• transitions
• ground poles
Also, in a non-fiction book I read, the riders do "spirals" with their horses as a flat exercise? If anyone knew about that and could explain it to me (i.e. what it is, what it helps with, what gait you can do it at, and how exactly to do it). I know they just like start with a big circle and go smaller and smaller in a spiral, and then change direction and "spiral" back out, but I don't understand it completely.
Any ideas you have are greatly appreciated. Best one gets best answer! Thank you! :]
I'm an intermediate rider but I just do regular equitation, no fancy stuff like leg yields, shoulder-in, haunches in, etc. I have a 14.2hh Quarter Horse mare.
I already know all the basic ones everyone says:
• no-stirrup work
• bareback
• transitions
• ground poles
Also, in a non-fiction book I read, the riders do "spirals" with their horses as a flat exercise? If anyone knew about that and could explain it to me (i.e. what it is, what it helps with, what gait you can do it at, and how exactly to do it). I know they just like start with a big circle and go smaller and smaller in a spiral, and then change direction and "spiral" back out, but I don't understand it completely.
Any ideas you have are greatly appreciated. Best one gets best answer! Thank you! :]