Walking: Exercises and Training
Never underestimate the importance of your horse's walk. From it stems every other gait - if your walk suffers, so will the trot and canter. Learning to extend and shorten your horse's walk, loosen the stride and get the horse to move out freely and extended, are crucial parts of your horse's training. Neglecting the horse's walk is one of the biggest mistakes a rider can make. The walk is a four beat gait. At the walk, the horse has three feet on the ground and only one foot in the air at any given time. It places each foot on the ground in turn; first a hind leg, followed by the foreleg on the same side, then the other hind leg and finally the remaining foreleg. Take a Walk: Training the Dancer Re-examining the Basics of the Walk |
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