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Day 2 Session 2 - Flat Warm-up | Anne Kursinski | PART 03
They continue to school shoulder-in. Anne reminds the riders that their shoulders need to align with the horses' shoulders and the horse shold be bent in the direction of travel. They finish the warm-up with canter and hand gallop, including riding in two-point position and full seat.
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Day 2 Session 2 - Flat Warm-up | Anne Kursinski | PART 02
They school shoulder-in while maintaining a forward walk and trot. Anne reminds the riders to make sure the horses' haunches stay on the track so that they don't drift in too much. Next they school shoulder-out. These exercises help the horse respond to the rider as well as build strength.
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Day 2 Session 2 - Flat Warm-up - Part 1
Anne reviewed flatwork from the day before. She reminded riders that flatwork is important to get the horses ready to jump. Are they going forward? Are they straight? They also needed to think about their own positions, making sure they were in a proper positon to start jumping.
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Day 2 Session 1 - Jumping Warm-up | Anne Kursinski
They start the jumping session by trotting over a single crossrail and then stopping straight on a specific line. Anne wants the riders to focus on the horse going quietly forward, the rider sitting in the saddle before and after the fence and focusing straight ahead on the point where they want ...
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Day 2 Session 1 - Jumping | Anne Kursinski | PART 04
To end the session, Anne has each rider jump a complete course. Riders count strides out loud to help with rhythm and distance. Again, she wants riders to do as little as possible to avoid interfering with the horse. She finishes the session with a review of the day and stresses how riders need t...
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Day 2 Session 1 - Jumping | Anne Kursinski | PART 03
The next line they focus on is a broken line where Anne asks them first to collect and do it in eight strides and then asks them to lengthen their horses' strides and do the line in seven strides. She wants the riders to focus on collecting the horses and then allowing them to go easily forward. ...
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Day 2 Session 1 - Jumping | Anne Kursinski | PART 02
Anne starts to build up to riding a complete course by adding a six-stride line after cantering the crossrail on the diagonal. Following the line they are to stop straight at the end of the arena. She has the riders count strides out loud to get a better idea of their rhythm and distance.
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Day 2 Session 1 - Jumping | Anne Kursinski | PART 01
Anne has the riders go into 2-point position and canter the crossrail while counting out loud the eight strides before the fence. They then have to stop at a specific point she has picked. She wants the riders to focus on rhythm, straightness and accuracy.
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Day 2 Session 1 - Flat Warm-up | Anne Kursinski | PART 03
Anne has the riders canter in both directions with the focus on sitting in the saddle. She also has them canter without stirrups to further get the feel of a deep seat.
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Day 2 Session 1 - Flat Warm-up | Anne Kursinski | PART 02
As the warm-up progresses, Anne has riders drop their stirrups and work on leg yielding. They also do trot/halt transitions. All of this is to test/work on the responsiveness of the horses to the aids. Anne notes that there were big improvements over day 1.
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Day 2 Session 1 - Flat Warm-up | Anne Kursinski | PART 01
This group of novice riders/horses begins to warm-up similarly to day 1. They start with walk and trot, and Anne goes through a rider's position checklist to keep the horses moving forward.
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Day 1 Session 2 Rider Introductions | Anne Kursinski
After thanking all her great sponsors of the three-day clinic, along with their contributions to the clinic, Anne meets the riders. Each rider introduces themselves to Anne and gives a brief background on themselves and their horses before starting the second session.
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Day 1 Session 3 - Working Trot Warm-up | Anne Kursinski
Riders work on the importance of straightness within the gate and how their straightness relates to pace. Along with the straightness of their horses, riders also work on lengthening and shortening of the trot to engage in a proper connection on the flat.
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Day 1 Session 3 - Working Canter Warm-up | Anne Kursinski
Utilizing both shortening and lengthening exercises at the canter, riders increase the effectiveness of their aids. While increasing the effectiveness of their aids, Anne helps to guide riders to improve their position to also help their horses improve on the flat.
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Day 1 Session 3 - Turn on the Haunches | Anne Kursinski
Anne talks riders through how to use their aids in a coordinated manner to execute a proper turn on the haunch.
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Day 1 Session 3 - Turn on the Forehand | Anne Kursinski
While helping riders individually execute a turn on the forehand movement, Anne teaches riders about coordinating aids in order to communicate effectively through the flat exercises. Anne demonstrates the turn on the forehand process while on a student's horse to show the correct way to clearly a...
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Day 1 Session 3 - Gymnastic Exercise | Anne Kursinski | PART 05
The third element, a vertical placed one stride away from the oxer, is added to the combination line. As riders continue to work on straightness, position, and connection, their positions begin to improve as well as their ability to remain straight before, during, and after the combination. Rider...
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Day 1 Session 3 - Leg Yield | Anne Kursinski
Anne helps riders to correctly move their horses through the leg yield exercise to increase the rider's ability to feel how to correctly execute each step of the movements.
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Day 1 Session 3 - Gymnastic Exercise | Anne Kursinski | PART 04
The third element, a vertical placed one stride away from the oxer, is added to the combination line. As riders continue to work on straightness, position, and connection, their positions begin to improve as well as their ability to remain straight before, during, and after the combination. Rider...
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Day 1 Session 3 - Gymnastic Exercise | Anne Kursinski | PART 03
The third element, a vertical placed one stride away from the oxer, is added to the combination line. As riders continue to work on straightness, position, and connection, their positions begin to improve as well as their ability to remain straight before, during, and after the combination. Rider...
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Day 1 Session 3 - Gymnastic Exercise | Anne Kursinski | PART 02
The combination exercise changes from a single crossrail to a crossrail, one stride to oxer combination while still halting on the backside. In addition to expanding the combination exercise, Anne also has riders drop their stirrups on the landing of the combination as the riders go to halt strai...
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Day 1 Session 3 - Gymnastic Exercise | Anne Kursinski | PART 01
Riders warm up by trotting over a single crossrail and halting straight on the back side. Anne walks riders through the importance of two point and half seat position throughout the process as well as straightness within the halt on the backside.
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Day 1 Session 3 - Cavalletti Exercise | Anne Kursinski | PART 02
Anne continues with the cavalletti exercises as she helps riders to relax into the exercise of having the horse and rider trot over the first two cavalletti within the line and then walk over the last cavalletti. She then increases the difficulty of the exercise by having the riders canter over c...
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Day 1 Session 3 - Cavalletti Exercise | Anne Kursinski | PART 01
Anne introduces the first cavalletti exercise to the group, which consists of multiple transitions over the track of three cavalletti. This begins to increase the leg to hand connection between horse and rider while asking the horse different questions.