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Groundwork is an essential building block within the academic art of riding.
Within the academic art of riding, we see the horse as a student that need to be taught.
We are teaching each aid, and start seeking communication and trust. Afterwards, the evolution to more difficult exercises is a natural development.
Listen to an enlightening talk. If you get curious, look at our links. Bent ist teaching two Webinars a year at Equidemia, and we offer more online tools to give you a head start!

Nothing is as controversial and blurry as the correct usage of the hand in the equestrian world. Many know what they don’t want, but little we know about people doing it better.
Today I am in a discussion with Bent Branderup about what a halt is, and how to use it correctly.

As horses don't express pain vocal, judging discomfort in equines is not always easy. In this episode, I am talking to Emanuela Dalla Costa. She developed a scale that uses facial expressions of horses to detect equine discomfort and pain, and categorises it in different levels. Before the HGS was developed, discovering aspecific discomfort was difficult. If you don't know what you search for, you wouldn't find. That has changed now!
In the show notes you find the download links to the specific open source studies, and also to our illustration download.