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Location: My own little world :) | Does anyone have any experience with straightness training? If so have you found it to be helpful? Where did you find information on it? Thanks. |
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Location: Loco,Ok | As the horse going in a straight line. Horse has to go straight,stop straight,draw straight. Pick a target go to it. |
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| I'm a believer in working on "straight travel." So many are wrapped up in working on bend and turning, but few focus on what really improves your time....being able to travel straight from one point to the next. It's simple. Get in the habit of picking a spot and travel straight to it. |
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| I agree very much with luckyjo. Something I like to do is print of some dressage tests and use those and a nice warm up and cool down routine. I do a lot of different basic dressage tests on my mare. I find the tests help me with organization. |
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| Zanadoo88 - 2016-11-20 9:40 PM
Does anyone have any experience with straightness training? If so have you found it to be helpful? Where did you find information on it? Thanks.
This is a new one on me ... so I had to google to find a german trainer doing the aussie training dressage style but using a wall as support for most of her "training"
I had associated "straightness" with some old Indian sayings I learned as a kid ..
THE BODY OF MAN AND HORSE WILL FOLLOW THE EYES ....
(look at a far object or place and have your feet follow your eyes)
THE EYES WILL DRAW THE EYES ....
(if you want to hide from something .. or you are hunting ... never stare at it...
they can feel your eyes ) Have you ever felt like something was looking at you while you are alone??
Americans thought process on straightness is a horses rear tracking his front end. And then moves to bending body to follow their nose and keeping a horses feet up under themselves ... etc etc
If you do dressage events during the week and run barrels on the weekends ... you will get a hoot out of this video ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I46lNbZGRmc
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Location: My own little world :) | Yea I was more asking about the straightness training that english/dressage uses. I have been reading a book about it and how you can actually fix a lot of lameness or issues with straightness training and was curious if anyone had any experience with it. |
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Location: South Dakota | My young mare has stiff sides/hollow sides, so I am always looking for ways to help balance her...Jane Savoie has some great books and dvd's on the subject of straightness. From what I understand, they need to be supple in order to be straight....sometimes easier said than done. The struggle is real. |
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Location: My own little world :) | ridejg - 2016-11-26 9:38 PM
My young mare has stiff sides/hollow sides, so I am always looking for ways to help balance her...Jane Savoie has some great books and dvd's on the subject of straightness. From what I understand, they need to be supple in order to be straight....sometimes easier said than done. The struggle is real.
Awesome! Thank you I will check her out :)
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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow | I have been wanting to ask this question and this thread appears to be a safe place to ask it. I have a concept idea for barrel racers but I don't know if it will fly. So here it is...a Western Dressage Barrel Racing clinic. My idea being that we focus on exercises that help with things that barrel racers struggle with, like straightness, bend, responsiveness etc... |
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Location: South Dakota | Sounds like a great idea! Would love to hear more about your thoughts. |
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Location: Stephenville, TX | To me, straightness is more about balance. Whether a horse is moving in a straight line or in an arc, I want his body to follow the direction of travel with the head, shoulders, ribs and hips equal on both sides if you were to draw a bisecting line thru his spine. For running barrels I've heard the term "staying straight in a circle" which means the closer you can stay on track the more efficeint your turns will be and less downed barrels.
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Location: Somewhere over the rainbow | ridejg - 2016-11-29 4:26 PM
Sounds like a great idea! Would love to hear more about your thoughts.
I see some super nice moving barrel horses that could clean house in the Western Dressage show arena. There are so many dressage exercises that when done correctly can build correct muscles, create more stamina, and improve flexibility, responsiveness, roundness, self carraige etc... Many of the exercises can be done in or out of the arena and during the warm up and cool down session of a traditional barrel practice session. I can't help but wonder if every moment with their horse was used as an opportunity to train, learn, condition and develop their horse what a difference it would make. Honestly, the top riders do incorporate dressage fundamentals in their barrel horse training. I think it would be cool to do a clinic incorporating the two. |
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Location: South Dakota | BabyJ - 2016-11-30 10:22 AM ridejg - 2016-11-29 4:26 PM Sounds like a great idea! Would love to hear more about your thoughts. I see some super nice moving barrel horses that could clean house in the Western Dressage show arena. There are so many dressage exercises that when done correctly can build correct muscles, create more stamina, and improve flexibility, responsiveness, roundness, self carraige etc... Many of the exercises can be done in or out of the arena and during the warm up and cool down session of a traditional barrel practice session. I can't help but wonder if every moment with their horse was used as an opportunity to train, learn, condition and develop their horse what a difference it would make. Honestly, the top riders do incorporate dressage fundamentals in their barrel horse training. I think it would be cool to do a clinic incorporating the two.
I study Jane Savoie's dvd's and books, and find they are very beneficial. |
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