The pracs today showed a range of equipment used to lunge horses. We also had a demonstration of jumping schooling by the Irish Army equitation school who are using the Irish national coaching scheme.
Jodie Hartstone also demonstrated the method of training for a response using only one cue at a time. in this caae the aim was to improve the horse's acceptance of contact with the first step being the horse stepping back to rein pressure on the ground. Next step to stop on rein pressure under saddle. This horse tended to carry itself in a hollow frame and was more likely to brace against contact but Jodie did a wonderful job of quietly making a clear simple signal for the horse to learn. Hopefully I can load some video of this. I tried the live streaming from my mobile phone; there will be more of this today about 6 hrs from now and hopefully the link will work, otherwise go to qik.com then look at jac08 to see the collection of videos so far. Quality is not so good when trying to view the other end of the dressage arena but I think it still has some potential. The video shows one of the Irish paralympic riders who gave a demonstration of her Olympic kur which was followed by some Irish dancing!
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