Riders and not-yet-riders interested in research participation please request training details as outlined in Equitation #101, #102 and #103. The following text provides a summary of training approaches.
Study-Horsemanship, the budding academy of equestrian study and practice, follows routines, which have proven their value in five plus years of research, learning and teaching.
Participants begin reading research results. They learn how to handle and sit on a horse and experiment...
with physical exercises which ease stress and establish physical normality. Regular journal entries assist their own understanding and add to the research 'How to teach riding'.
They learn to work horses from the ground and to see/understand the horse's physiology while improving it. This 'leg work', the dawn of understanding the horse and, in addition, individual physical exercises soon merge into a first state of expertise.
In start-up as well as in follow-up schooling participants work at their own pace, allowing for idiosynchracies and the bonding of activities to the self. Only that which is meaningful to the rider will be meaningful to the horse he rides.
In the saddle participants discover how their posture, muscle tension and nerve impulses impact the horse. They follow classical training progressions in hand and in the saddle, going from easy to easy without force. Responsibility for three to five horses provides ample opportunity.
Participants soon tend to choose out-doors schooling over riding in the sand school. New-found confidence often translates into non-equestrian life. Advanced teaching only begins when horses are straight, strong and ready to bend.
In other words, research participants Study-Horsemanship do the obvious. They spend time with horses, work them and observe how they function. They follow established ways of making horses straight, both from the ground and in the saddle. And when they 'come together' and begin to give themselves, they take them outdoors and enjoy. Only thereafter schooling in the traditional sense begins.
The advantages. Rider and horse progress without any a-do towards proper posture and oxygenation. They gain understanding and soon begin to demonstrate accomplishment. They enjoy each other's company and have fun. There are no drawbacks. The only requirements are time and wanting to ride. In addition there are many advantages in health preventive, physiological, psychological, communicational, educational and equestrian terms. Participation amounts to sound professional training. It prepares participants to teach an equitation, which is safe and sound because it is physiologically correct.
Please see an image for Elements of Equitation (2005) still in the works. The final version will be available in Illustrations in a few days. This and many more images assist the riders' comprehension of the physiology of riding.
Here the next phase. The final coming soon.
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