09/29/2024
Training Tip 🤌🏻
Polework is beneficial for all horses, regardless of age, ability, or discipline:
🦄 Improves balance: Polework helps horses maintain balance and improve their footwork.
🦄 Strengthens muscles: Polework can help tone muscles and increase strength.
🦄 Improves flexibility: Polework can help keep horses flexible and encourage them to step under with their hind legs more.
🦄 Improves core stability: Polework can help develop a horse's core stability.
🦄 Improves agility: Polework can help encourage horses to be more agile.
🦄 Improves straightness: Polework can help promote straightness for horses that tend to be crooked in their body.
🦄 Improves harmony with handler: In-hand polework can help improve the harmony between the horse and its rider.
🦄 Reduces stress on joints and limbs: In-hand polework can reduce stress on a horse's joints and limbs because it doesn't add the weight of a rider.
Some polework exercises include:
🐴 Poles in walk: Set up six poles in a straight line and raise each pole on one side.
🐴 The double fan: Create a double fan pattern by laying poles at a canter distance apart on one side and a trotting distance apart on the other side.
When setting up a row of ground poles, space them about 2.5 feet apart for walking, 4 feet apart for trotting, and 9-11 feet apart for cantering.
Use PolyJumps poles, pole pods, cavalettis and more to help with your exercises. Code JKE5 will save you money on your order and you can also customise any colour you fancy. Remember we hold regular pole clinics here too. 🙌🏼
