For all interested Horse-Lovers, Riders, Trainers & Show Officials

Possible topics:
  • How the rider sits is how the horse goes! Connection between the rider’s seat and how the horse goes
  • The nature of the horse is the basis of the German Riding System
  • Principles of ground work
  • Early gymnastic training for maintaining health and improving mental and physical capacity
  • The comprehensive basic training of the young horse
  • Importance and value of work with cavalletti
  • Starting the work over fences
  • Why we ride movements?
  • Cadence, Rhythm and Regularity as a prerequisite and a result in the balance of the horse
  • The solution lies in loosening – the importance of suppleness
  • Contact – The fine connection to the horse’s mouth
  • Forward is not the same as speed
  • Made crooked – straightening as lifelong task
  • Collection – perfecting the balance
  • Throughness – at all levels of education of the horse
  • From snaffle to double bridle – progression in using the curb for rider and horse
  • Development and evaluation of lateral movements
  • From working canter to canter pirouettes
  • What the judge wants to see: criteria of test riding – equitation/riding style classes in stadium or cross-country
  • In the past everything was better – really? Comparison of the care, training and use of the horse in the decades of the last century
  • The “Ethical Principles of an equestrian” after 20+ years of their implementation
  • Animal welfare in equestrian sport
  • Et al