Shoulder in Exercise For Your Horse

Описание: Why teach your horse shoulder in from the ground? What are the benefits of the shoulder in exercise? In this video I will explain exactly why shoulder in is an important exercise to increase strength, flexibility and balance of your horse and the first thing you can do to prevent your horse from falling in.

In the old days, horses were carefully trained for wars and battles. Gymnastic exercises, like shoulder-in, haunches-in, half-pass and pirouette, were used to shift the weight to the hind quarters and free the shoulders, so that the horse could quickly turn on the haunches to attack (or avoid) the enemy. These quick manoeuvres could save your life, so dressage led to well-trained and collected horses that could perform the most difficult exercises.

Nowadays, horse riding has become a popular leisure activity and for others it is a competitive sport. Very often, the lateral movements are trained for the dressage test without understanding the essence and gymnastic value of exercise.

This video will cover the following subjects:
How to use a small circle to prepare your horse for a correct bend for shoulder in
How shoulder in will be power training for the inside hind leg
How you can use a half halt to easier move the shoulder of the track
What is lateral flexion of the poll?
How you can use a neck rope to make it easier for your horse

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This video will not show the perfect picture, but the process of how to explain it to your horse.

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Note: This video is part of the Lateral Movements Simplified online course, a 6 month in depth program on how to improve your horse’s strength, flexibility and balance on the ground. The course includes groundwork and inhand training video’s, theory, Q&A sessions and online coaching. This 6-month training starts 2x per year, January 1st and July 1st.

If you want to start to prepare your horse for lateral work on the ground, you can get the Lateral Movements mini-course where you will learn about different groundwork positions, how to move the shoulders and the haunches and how you can use the circle to prepare for shoulder in and haunches in.

See https://trueconnection.lucieklaassen.... for more information.


Chapters
0:00 Why Shoulder in?
1:20 Power training with body weight
1:51 Showing shoulder in position
2:22 What can go wrong?
3:00 Flexibility and strength
4:45 Effect on muscles
5:20 Summarizing the benefits
6:12 How to teach something new
8:30 How to prevent falling in
9:08 Shoulder out
10:12 Don’t use inside rein!