MASTERING YOUR POLE WORK FROM BASICS TO ADVANCED is the perfect training manual for all disciplines and all levels!
The book contains 170 (!) exercises, and you can vary each exercise to suit different stride lengths, gaits, and levels of education.

Each pole figure/pattern offers several different exercises. Being able to ride alternative routes in the same figure is very convenient since you do not have to dismount to re-arrange the poles to get variation.

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The exercises are varied to strengthen the horse’s coordination, suppleness, strength, body awareness, and motivation and can be executed while riding as well as when training from the ground.

The book offers softening exercises, slow precision exercises, exercises to improve the signal system, learning and playing with lead changes, back-through obstacles, pole figures, patterns and courses, gymnastic jumping and grids, exercises for the circle, lateral movements, transitions, and more!

With this book, you get lots of inspiring, creative, and developing exercises to take your training to the next level!

CHAPTERS

Basic exercises – 27 Exercises in which you learn basic pole work, such as adjusting the horse’s stride length to the distance, training halts, transitions and lead changes, and backing between poles. 

Warm-up & Dressage – 6 Courses for suppleness and precision. 

Circle & Longeing – 31 Circle exercises you can use in riding or longeing (or long reining).  

Pole formations– 94 Exercises where each pole formation has several different exercises, so you won’t have to change the poles and still get a lot of variation in the same session. 

Cavaletti courses– 12 courses to strengthen the horse over pole series, gymnastic jumping, and grid work.