{"id":56841,"date":"2020-12-24T08:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=56841"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:21:14","slug":"pole-dancing-for-dressage-horses-exercise-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2020\/12\/pole-dancing-for-dressage-horses-exercise-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pole Dancing for Dressage Horses &#8211; Exercise 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lesley Brodbeck\u00a0is a BHS and NCAS accredited coach, and an Australian 3DE representative. At the Queensland Dressage Festival she demonstrated a series of simple exercises using poles to help the dressage horse. Her &#8216;guinea pig&#8217; was Liz Owens\u00a0and her huge, five-year-old Diamond Hit gelding, Diamond Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>Lesley warns the spectators at Queensland\u2019s Dressage Festival \u2013 \u201cpole work is deceiving, it looks easy but in fact it is quite demanding. Diamond Jubilee is built uphill, and this first exercise is to encourage longitudinal stretch, the poles help him focus down and out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35414\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR-2.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR-2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR-2-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR-2-422x300.jpg 422w\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exercise one \u2013\u00a0Poles are placed at R and P with tramlines at B.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35289 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LesleysDiagram1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LesleysDiagram1.jpg 406w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LesleysDiagram1-198x300.jpg 198w\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"616\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective: gentle introduction\/warm up for greener horses, encouraging stretch, and focus. Tramlines can be used to measure accuracy in transitions, add a small circle at each pole, halts can be made inside tramlines also. Ride lengthening and shortening in tramlines for stride adjustability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35249\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR2.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR2-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR2-474x300.jpg 474w\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I am working over poles, I encourage the riders not to do too much to help the horse, we want to encourage the horse to make mistakes if necessary, and switch on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35251\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR4.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR4.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR4-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR4-423x300.jpg 423w\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35252\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR5.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR5.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR5-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1ExR5-423x300.jpg 423w\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"496\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the tram lines, the parallel poles, we are working on stretching, it is important to keep the tempo slow and let the horse focus on the rail and process the exercise\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/AUS_THM_BatesVictrix_Graphic_1000x600-e1619825697273.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-58644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/AUS_THM_BatesVictrix_Graphic_1000x600-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"t4o2GPKyup\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2017\/06\/pole-dancing-to-improve-your-dressage\/\">Pole Dancing to improve your dressage<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pole Dancing to improve your dressage&#8221; &#8212; The Horse Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2017\/06\/pole-dancing-to-improve-your-dressage\/embed\/#?secret=QHUY1qiKbn#?secret=t4o2GPKyup\" data-secret=\"t4o2GPKyup\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International eventer,  Lesley Brodbeck\u00a0has designed a series of exercises using poles on the ground to help educate and gymnasticize horses, here&#8217;s the first of our exercises to give you something to do over Christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56841"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63149,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56841\/revisions\/63149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}