THE STRAIGHTNESS SOLUTION
THE KEY TO IT ALL
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Training that focuses on straightness not only helps your horse progress faster and move better, but it minimises wear and tear too.
INCLUDE A FOCUS ON STRAIGHTNESS IN YOUR TRAINING...
"Straightness is not a higher-level training concept that comes towards the end of the horse’s training. It’s something quite basic and has to be worked on right from the very beginning. Everything else depends on it or is at least affected by it." - Thomas Ritter
Straightness: Just another step on the training pyramid or the key to it all?
One of the downsides of the Training Pyramid is that it doesn’t explain the many relationships and mutual interdependencies that exist between the elements of the Training Pyramid. Straightness impacts the ability of the horse to achieve the other elements of the training, such as Balance, Rhythm, Relaxation, Contact, Throughness, Impulsion and Collection.
Ingredients of Straightness
What exactly is a functionally straight horse and physically and biomechanically what does the horse need to be able to do in order to achieve that?
The Straightness Soundness Connection
How crookedness makes horses unsound.
Crookedness has many disadvantages from a ridden perspective but the most serious problem is that crookedness can cause lameness in the long run because the horse uses his body unevenly.
Straightness starts with the small things
A riding exercise to tune into the horse and evaluate you and your horse’s crookedness patterns
Not only is the exercise diagnostic but it is also great to supple your horse's shoulders and spine, engage core muscles, and improve your horse's lateral balance.
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