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Teaching the Rider Advanced Skills

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

          This course is all about the dressage position, which is the foundation for all riding, the different gaits of the horse and how to follow them as well as aids to control the horse, movements and figures.

         Whether riders are training a horse or training themselves, they are using the skills learned in dressage-skills which can be applied in any discipline, whether riding over jumps, cross country or western.

         This course consists of five parts. In the first three you will learn about the rider's position, the paces of the horse and how to follow the movements as well as the aids we use to communicate with the horse. The complex techniques are broken down into simple achievable tasks and then put together again to complete the skill-this process is called segmenting.

         With each skill riders learn, there are a number of common mistakes. These are identified with text and pictures offering solutions. The instructor will get "an eye" for identifying the problems riders have in learning new skills and assisting the rider in correcting the problem.

          In lessons 4 and 5 the newly learned skills are put into practice to help improve the rider's control of the horse. Tracks and different movements are introduced in the riding arena.

         Various exercises and movements help the instructor to train the rider to become precise and develop effective control, making the horse more supple and obedient. Exercises give the instructor a variety of training tools, many of which can be practiced in groups, used to prepare for competition or as the basis for musical rides.

         The course is divided in five jam-packed lessons. Tuition fee: $400.

                      1. The dressage position.

                      2. The paces of the horse and how to follow them.

                      3. The aids-how the rider communicate with the horse.

                      4. Tracks, figures and movements.
                                 A. Applying riding techniques and the aids by riding tracks
                                      and movements in the arena.

                      5. Lesson plans.

           * You have must completed and passed the course Riding Instructor Role and Responsibilities before starting this course.

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