Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2015 9:02:52 GMT -7
Liberty Haute Ecole is an art. It's taking the original work of haute ecole and having the horse do it at will, through teaching it at liberty. These movements are taught without the use of a headpiece or bit. They're taught with a cordeo and a whip. The cordeo is used to build communication and to aid in certain movements. The whip or crop is used as a signal for certain movements.
First off, you want to build a relationship with your horse. You want him to come to you, follow you, and play with you. You can play with a horse by running, with toys like balls or ropes, or you can make homemade toys (Fair Horsemanship on YouTube has some videos about this) that stimulate the horse's mind and encourages exploration.
Once the relationship is built (you'll know), you can begin teaching the stretches. It's important not to rush into this. You will not achieve anything at liberty with a horse without having a relationship with him first. He has to look at you as a friend, and look at you as a person worth working with. The stretches are ramener, crunch, mountain goat, stepping under with the hind leg at the walk, lifting the legs, standing on a plateau, jambette, and spanish walk.
Once those are learned, work on collection. Stepping under with one hind leg, starting to lunge through stepping under, shoulder in, travers, and the half-pass.
And then there's full collection. Then you can do the more advanced elements like the collected walk, canter and trot, piaffe, passage, spanish trot, school walk, pesade and levade, lauf courbette, terre-a-terre, and airs above ground.
It's important not to rush anything and to praise every little try. For example if you're teaching ramener. Praise for the slightest tuck of the chin. It doesn't have to be perfect the first try! And work up from the small parts to bigger parts until you have a full ramener. Same goes for each and every element of haute ecole.
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First off, you want to build a relationship with your horse. You want him to come to you, follow you, and play with you. You can play with a horse by running, with toys like balls or ropes, or you can make homemade toys (Fair Horsemanship on YouTube has some videos about this) that stimulate the horse's mind and encourages exploration.
Once the relationship is built (you'll know), you can begin teaching the stretches. It's important not to rush into this. You will not achieve anything at liberty with a horse without having a relationship with him first. He has to look at you as a friend, and look at you as a person worth working with. The stretches are ramener, crunch, mountain goat, stepping under with the hind leg at the walk, lifting the legs, standing on a plateau, jambette, and spanish walk.
Once those are learned, work on collection. Stepping under with one hind leg, starting to lunge through stepping under, shoulder in, travers, and the half-pass.
And then there's full collection. Then you can do the more advanced elements like the collected walk, canter and trot, piaffe, passage, spanish trot, school walk, pesade and levade, lauf courbette, terre-a-terre, and airs above ground.
It's important not to rush anything and to praise every little try. For example if you're teaching ramener. Praise for the slightest tuck of the chin. It doesn't have to be perfect the first try! And work up from the small parts to bigger parts until you have a full ramener. Same goes for each and every element of haute ecole.
hauteecole.ru/en/news/
www.artofnaturaldressage.com/forum/index.php