Schooling exercises for impulsion

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emmaln

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Hi all,

My rising 5 yr old welshy is currently hacked in w/t/c 3/4 times a week, for 40-90 mind including hill work and some road work jumped once a week and schooled once a week she has 1-2 days off a week!

We've built up to this slowly and she really enjoys her work, we've got our first ridden shows coming up and I want to up her schooling work however she is very lazy in the school so I'm after ways to keep her interested as well as excercises to improve impulsion. We already do lots of transitions and she gets better as a schooling session goes on (max 40 mins at the mo)

Any help gratefully received?!?

Thankies
 
I've found that anything involving poles works well with my boy... makes him think he's doing something other than boring schooling whilst secretly making him work everything I want worked :D

Yesterday I set up the dressage markers in a large circle, and put poles on the quarters of the circle... so he was bending, and the poles at regular intervals made him engage behind which improved impulsion. Not sure if it's a technically correct exercise, but it definitely really worked for us and our schooling partners, and the horses really enjoyed it... as did we actually!
 
Thanks trish c. We do work with poles quite regularly it does give her a little more pep to begin with but she is still lazy, she is the picture of health and not overweight and her muscle tone is definitely improving, I was just hoping I would be able to start to work a little bit less and getting her forward (in the school) put her round a course of jumps and she sets a beautiful rhythm and clears every fence but the minute she's finished she's quite happy to stop the minute I take my leg off! I was hoping she'd improve the fitter she got but this doesn't seem to be the case she is just lazy!
 
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