AIDS’ SCHOOL
Aids’ school is the learning process of using aids to ride a horse.
For horse riding, natural aids are the hands, the legs and the body weight. To control our aids means first acting with 1 aid – simple action – then try not to disrupt the rest of the body – aids independance – and finally tune all the aids together – aids harmony.
Working on our simulators prepare this learning process.
Exercices’ examples on equestrian simulator to learn to master hands while riding
- Learn how to to hold 2,4,6 reins
- Dynamic positionning of the hands : hands up or hands down
- Mobilization of the upper limb’s joint : shoulders, elbows, wirsts
- Dynamic coordination of upper limb to acquire a good contact with the horse mouth
- Handling reins in movement
- Do all those exercices in the 6 different options of the rider
Exercices’ examples on equestrian simulators to learn to master legs while riding
- Mobilization of the coxo-femoral’s joint
- Open and close the knee
- Ancke’s flexibility
- Work in adduction with squeezed legs
- Work in abduction with legs apart
- Impulsive leg’s action back and forth
- Leg’s action in center
- To each legs’action : repeated and growing action “in crescendo”
- Do all those exercices in the 6 different fonctionning options of the rider
Exercices’ examples on equestrian simulator to acquire aids’ independance
- Hands’ exercices above will be repeated with legs apart. Then alternating (for ex every 5 strides) squeezed legs and legs apart
- Do those exercices in the 6 different fonctionning options of the rider
- Legs’ exercices will be done with tight reins, pay attention to keep a steady contact with the simulator’s “mouth”
Exercices’ examples on equestrian simulator to acquire aids’ harmony
- Alternate every different exercices respecting the principle “legs without hands and hands without legs”