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<\/a><\/p>\nTell me about balance, are we talking self-carriage?<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a relative self-carriage. A very young horse in a longer frame can be in self-carriage, a horse in a piaffe can be in self-carriage, in an extreme amount of collection. It has to do with the balance, and for me, the balance has to do with the quality of the pressure within the horse\u2019s own body, that we influence positively or negatively.\u201d<\/p>\n Isabell Werth and Welcome at the World Cup in Stockholm<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBalance is for me is a three dimensional phase that I am trying to push into. So I have longitudinal balance which is from the tail to the ears \u2013 which is a young horse, \u2013 then I have to start teaching that young horse lateral balance, which is like moving from a leg yield sideways, then I start to combine longitudinal and lateral balance, which is where I get the idea of pushing the horse into the third dimension.<\/p>\n Isabell at home with Satchmo<\/em><\/p>\n And competing at Aachen<\/em><\/p>\n I am not just looking at a flat television screen, but I am seeing the horse like a bow that I can push up through the withers, that\u2019s the highest balance point, up through the withers, and then I bend him within that and he stays up in the withers in the bend.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n