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    5th Horse Lesson The Cog and The Training Scale Article

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    The document discusses the "cog and training scale" illustration for explaining basic training elements of rhythm, looseness, and contact between a horse and rider. [1] It uses the metaphor that the horse has two internal cogs - the rear cog representing rhythm and the front cog representing looseness and contact. [2] The rider must focus on maintaining an even rhythm with their body and the horse's hind legs for the rear cog, and allow the horse's neck to stretch with loose reins for the front cog before shortening the reins to meet contact. [3] Properly coordinating the cogs through the rider's aids is necessary for a balanced connection between horse and rider.

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    The document discusses the "cog and training scale" illustration for explaining basic training elements of rhythm, looseness, and contact between a horse and rider. [1] It uses the metaphor that the horse has two internal cogs - the rear cog representing rhythm and the front cog representing looseness and contact. [2] The rider must focus on maintaining an even rhythm with their body and the horse's hind legs for the rear cog, and allow the horse's neck to stretch with loose reins for the front cog before shortening the reins to meet contact. [3] Properly coordinating the cogs through the rider's aids is necessary for a balanced connection between horse and rider.

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    The document discusses the "cog and training scale" illustration for explaining basic training elements of rhythm, looseness, and contact between a horse and rider. [1] It uses the metaphor that the horse has two internal cogs - the rear cog representing rhythm and the front cog representing looseness and contact. [2] The rider must focus on maintaining an even rhythm with their body and the horse's hind legs for the rear cog, and allow the horse's neck to stretch with loose reins for the front cog before shortening the reins to meet contact. [3] Properly coordinating the cogs through the rider's aids is necessary for a balanced connection between horse and rider.

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    5th Horse Lesson The Cog and The Training Scale Article

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    The document discusses the "cog and training scale" illustration for explaining basic training elements of rhythm, looseness, and contact between a horse and rider. [1] It uses the metaphor that the horse has two internal cogs - the rear cog representing rhythm and the front cog representing looseness and contact. [2] The rider must focus on maintaining an even rhythm with their body and the horse's hind legs for the rear cog, and allow the horse's neck to stretch with loose reins for the front cog before shortening the reins to meet contact. [3] Properly coordinating the cogs through the rider's aids is necessary for a balanced connection between horse and rider.

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    THE COG AND THE TRAINING SCALE

    In the cog illustration, notice which way the circles


    rotate. The rider must be thinking of the hind legs BY FELICITAS VON NEUMAN-COSEL

    coming towards her for the back cog to rotate


    smoothly, and the front cog she needs to have the
    idea that her hands are moving forward without
    completely letting go of the loose contact. If her
    timing is off with her seat and leg connected to the
    hind end and her reins and arms connected to the
    front end, the cog will either jam or it won’t connect
    and rotate smoothly.

    The Basic Training of the Training Scale is 46 PRACTICAL HORSEMAN * JULY 2003

    Rhythm…Looseness…Contact. These Basic Reprinted with the permission of PRIMEDIA


    Training elements are easily explained in the idea that ENTHUSIAST Publications, Inc. Illustration taken from,
    Practical Horseman, Felicitas von Neuman-Cosel, Primedia,
    your horse has two cogs rotating inside of him. September 2003.p.69. Felicitas von Neuman-Cosel gives
    permission to the Pony Club to use her ideas for learning to
    The rear cog is Rhythm. The rider must think make a better partnership between horse and rider.
    1…2…1…2…metronome for instance at the walk or
    trot on the hind legs. The rider’s body and legs can slow the swing down or let it longer. That
    holding of the rider’s core helps the horse’s swing to slow into an even rhythm.

    The front cog is associated with looseness first and contact second. The horse must know that he
    can stretch his neck, therefore the rider must never be tight on the reins. The horse needs to know
    that he has his head and neck for his balance. The rider feels as if the neck muscle in front of the
    saddle is always stretching a bit. Then the horse lets the rider know when to shorten the reins to
    meet the contact.

    The contact is a dynamic thing. When the horse gathers his hind leg rhythm and the horse’s chest
    elevates, the rider can, in a forward thinking way, feel the horse’s mouth and take up the contact.
    Then the connection begins and the balancing between the aids works.

    The Training Scale

    Written by Betsy LaBelle


    With the idea of helping Pony Clubbers understand the biomechanics of horse and rider better.
    Betsy finished as a Graduate B from North Star Pony Club.

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