You
will Learn how to...
Ride independently
with control at walk, sitting and posting trots on correct diagonals
with advancing positions, control at the canter and hand gallop
as well as...
- Mount and
dismount from both sides without assistance.
- Adjust stirrups
while mounted at the walk.
- Adjust girth
while mounted at the walk.
- Ride at canter
in both directions on correct leads, and figure 8's with simple
change.
- Canter independently
while others walk or trot.
- Execute safe
group riding procedures/arena etiquette.
- Ride with
control at walk and trot up and down easy hills.
- Demonstrate
and explain aids for trot/canter transitions
- Discuss basic
principles of balance and motion, gaits and movement.
- Demonstrate
advancing proficiency in all seats.
- Perform schooling
figures at posting and sitting trots with and without cavalletti.
- Perform individual
warm-up at walk and trot.
Horsemanship
Skills Include:
- Name and
locate ten parts of the horse.
- Tack and
untack correctly and independently.
- Describe
and execute process of cooling out.
- Discuss and
execute suitable warm-up for horse and rider before flat work.
- List 3 examples
of unsafe tack.
- Proficiency
at free lungeing.
- Understand
all terminology used during the lessons.
**All horsemanship
and riding skills are progressive. The student must be proficient
in skills of the current and all lower levels before advancing to
the next level, Intermediate III.
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