Cavalletti

by Ingrid Klimke, Reiner Klimke

Overview

A revised edition with new photographs and textural updates. Each horse, no matter the riding discipline, benefits from working with cavalletti. Dressage and eventing rider extraordinaire Ingrid Klimke explains how training with ground poles and cavalletti is one of her secrets of success. Cavalletti training improves the gaits; promotes rhythm, suppleness, and cadence; and increases the fitness of your horse. This newly revised guide shows cavalletti work on the longe, provides valuable new ideas specifically for dressage work, and numerous updated diagrams for jumping gymnastics, along with all new color photographs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570769276
Publisher:	Trafalgar Square
Publication date:	10/16/2018
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

A decorated Olympian shares her tips for incorporating training outside the arena and on the trail for happier, healthier equine athletes.

Gold medalist Ingrid Klimke has long encouraged competitive equestrians to spend time riding outside the arena or typical fenced or covered training area. Klimke learned to love trail riding and working outside the ring from her father, the admired dressage master Reiner Klimke, who insisted it be a regular part of their weekly schedule.

While Klimke notes that the most important part of “riding out” is for horse and rider to enjoy it, there are also many training and conditioning benefits for the horse. It:

• Promotes relaxation in mind and body.
• Provides variety to everyday training.
• Boosts motivation when under saddle.
• Builds fitness in diverse ways.

In these pages, Klimke provides top-level guidance to making riding outside a regular and rewarding experience for you and your horse. She discusses:

• Equipment considerations when moving from arena to trail.
• Riding with others and best group formations.
• How to stay safe on the trail and in open spaces.
• Riding through water.
• Jumping small obstacles.
• Making specific improvements in a horse’s fitness, stamina, and strength.

Klimke strongly advocates for regularly riding dressage horses out on the trail and in open spaces, outside the “sandbox.” Here she provides ideas for safely making use of the energy a horse gains when schooled in open country. Readers will discover suppling exercises to improve forwardness and focus in the arena, and techniques to help horses develop a calm and unflappable frame of mind.

Chock full of gorgeous photographs of Klimke’s world-class horses demonstrating their own love for being ridden outside the arena, Riding Out is for every horse person in search of ways to increase their connection with their athletic partner while improving the ridden horse’s general welfare. This is professional guidance in a fundamental way to make training more enjoyable and more well-rounded—Klimke’s own astounding successes in international competition prove its incredible value.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the first edition Dr Reiner Klimke 1966 8

Foreword to the 1997 edition Dr Reiner Klimke 1997 9

Traditionaland New Experiences Ingrid Klimke 2011 9

1 The value of cavalletti work in basic training 11

Basic rules 11

Why is cavalletti work useful? 12

What does the rider learn? 15

2 Practical equipment 19

Different pole layouts 19

Using ground poles instead of cavalletti 20

Ground conditions 20

Equipment for the horse 21

3 Cavalletti work without the rider 23

Basic training in a natural outline 23

Free schooling 24

On the Lunge 30

4 Cavalletti work on straight lines with the rider 39

Basic rules 39

Various cavalletti layouts 39

Cavalletti work in walk 42

Cavalletti work in trot 48

Cavalletti work in canter 60

5 Cavalletti work on circles 63

Preparation 63

6 Gymnastic jumping 71

Introduction 71

Basic rules 72

Aim 72

Planning a schooling session 75

The basic elements of riding over fences 76

The jumping seat 81

Exercises in cantering over cavalletti 86

Typical mistakes and their solutions 95

Schooling the horse 99

Grids for novice horses 103

Bounces 114

More layouts for grid work 119

Common problems and ways to correct them 122

7 Training programmes 131

Basic rules 131

Four to six week plan for basic training 132

Four to six week plan for a dressage horse 140

Four to six week plan for a jumping horse 145

Ideas for young riders 150

Further reading 153

Index 155

Editorial Reviews

Perfect for novice or advanced riders and for green or experienced horses who need to work on their footwork.” —Everything Eventing

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