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#1 -
Riding by the self-posture of the horse
Basic
course, 495 pages, Preface of Colonel
Carde, former Chief Riding Master of the "Cadre
Noir" of Saumur and former Director of the French
National Riding School.
*The CD 2 and
3 can be studied separately of the CD 1, the three courses
are independent.
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The
antagonistic exercises and manipulations coupled together
two by two is the great principle of the self-posture of
the horse.
The riders who got the CD 1, Riding by
the self-posture of the horse, are highly impressed by the
results. It would be possible to prove that with their correspondence
(with their permission).
One student
wrote to us, that the method is a "revela-revolution "and
that the course" is several lengths ahead on people
attitudes" (Nathalie
V.).
The CD 1, Riding by
the self-posture of the horse, establishes, for the great majority, the basic
course. Even if more than positive results are acquired after
a month, it is question of a course that starts from a simple
equitation and leads to a learned equitation.
For the "Teaching by Internet",
the CD permit, concerning the horseman, to avoid the permanent
citation of texts. That was in the past an exhausting work.
Concerning the students, they permit to concentrate on their
specific problems.
The first exercise,the
extremely slow-moving walk (also called counted
walk),
seems, at first sight, simple. Nevertheless, the horse
shows during this exercise all his errors, natural or
acquired, but also shows his gifts.
This walk, very special:
Has to be executed meticulously
in order to be effective. There are several strict rules
to respect.
There are criterions that allow
to know if the execution is correct.
The second exercise, the backward
movement,
requires, with the recommended aids, a complete change of
the habits of the rider … The rider has a lot of surprises
(speed to obtain half-pass and … piaffe) and, in particular,
the self-posture of the horse.
The CD 2 and 3 can constitute the continuation,
the second degree, with two possible orientations, work in
hand and sensual equitation (an absolutely new equitation,
based on the six periods of the cycle of the horse’s
legs, and absolutely different of the proposed equitation
of the CD 1). But they form an independent whole
and the riders can get them, without acquiring the CD.
#2 -
Work in hand by the self-posture
of the horse, horseman at the haunch
Work
in hand by the self-posture of the horse, horseman
at the haunch,
231 pages.
The method is characterized by the permanent
presence of the horseman in the field of vision of the
horse, by the impulse and the straightness maintained by
the presence of the horseman at haunch’s level, the
maximum expression of the hand, thanks to a very special
arrangement of the long reins, and the possibility to adjust
the height of the horse’s neck. And above all, by
the self-posture of the horse, basically obtained with
antagonistic and preparatory exercises, coupled together,
two by two, that induce the horse to find, by himself,
the wanted movement.
The method allows whether to improve the
exercises the horse will execute when mounted, or whether
to teach the horse these exercises quickly and gently before
the mounted work.
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#3 - Sensual
riding by the self-posture of the horse and
comics
Sensual
riding by the self-posture of the horse and comics(complete
equitation by the use of the six periods of the locomotion’s
cycle of the horse’s legs, feeling and tact, with
the thousand and one "little horses of the night" drawn
by the author), 465
pages.
The method allows the optimization
of the requests of the rider for all the essential
equestrian operations. It explains why the same request,
with the same aids, sometimes can be successful, sometimes
a failure. It allows to avoid the latter, teaching the
rider to do his request at a precise moment of the horse’s
locomotion.
The method also allows to defuse
the controversies about the conflicting principles
and processes, and to "clean the air", sometimes
shady of the equitation.
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#4 -
Jumping by the self-posture of the horse
Jumping
by the self-posture of the horse, 84
pages.
It is a revolutionary method:
the horse is entirely educated with two lunge
reins and … without
a rider.
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#5 - Driving
or the joy of the horse
Driving
or the joy of the horse, 40 pages.
It is a very simple method that
puts the emphasis on the security and the respect of
the horse.
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#6 - Majesty’s
equitation or baroque equitation
Majesty’s
equitation or baroque equitation, an original
treatise of baroque equitation. 362 pages.
The author put the emphasis on the systematic
use of the long crop, in order to respect a great principle
of the baroque school: the extreme gentleness of the aids.
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#7 -
In search of centaur,
the
physical and moral personality of the horse, an ethological riding
In
search of centaur, the physical
and moral personality of the horse, an ethological riding
The author lays stress on the highest
importance of the study of the physical personality (gaits,
cycle of the legs, extreme sensitivity of the mouth’s
mucous membrane, high sensitiveness of the epidermis, lightning
speed with which the horse reacts to the rider’s requests …)
and of the psychological personality, captivating, but quite
delicate, of the horse (he often runs away, but he also has
a great capacity for analysis and for memorization).
He summarizes
this personality with this formula: "The physical personality
is characterized by the hypersensitivity, the moral personality
by an extreme emotionalism". He draws up a long list
of processes for the riders in order to respect this complicated
and delicate personality, but allowing to obtain the best,
gently, of this sensitiveness animal machine: "use
of the speech", "aids that strive towards zero", "hand
without legs, legs without hand", "superiority
of the aid of weight", "use the favorable periods
of the locomotion cycle (optimization of the rider’s
requests)", "“weight of the leather", "use
of the articulatory limits of the vertebral column", "relaxation
of the jaw", "recourse to the preliminary work
in hand", "education of the jumping horse … without
a rider". So, he offers an ethological riding, not
based on pious wishes, but offering numerous practical solutions.
Riding
by the self-posture of the horse 
