Equitazione

Equitazione/Intestazione

Indice

PARTE I - THE USUAL OR INSTINCTIVE EQUITATION

• Prefazione
• Introduction
• Mount, dismount, and vault
• The seat
• The woman rider
• The aids
• The gaits
• Jumping

PARTE II - THE REASONED EQUITATION : THE TRAINING OF THE SADDLE-HORSE BY THE AID OF PRINCIPLES BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF MASTERS OF THE ART OF RIDING

The reasoned equitation

• Breaking in
• Rewards and punishments
• The first work on foot
• The flexions
• Backing and the pirouettes
• The handling of the reins
• The first work mounted: the hands and the aids
• The legs and their effects
• The spurs and their effects
• Mobilizations mounted
• The flexions mounted
• Placing the horse and the variants from the "in hand"
• The assemblage

PARTE III - THE SCIENTIFIC EQUITATION

• The diagonal effect
• The figures of manege
• My own system
• The jambettes
• The Spanish walk
• The Spanish and the flying trot
• The piaffer
• The passage
• The passage backward
• Hands without legs: legs without hands

PARTE IV - THE DEFENSES OF THE HORSE AND THEIR CORRECTION

• The defenses of the horse and their correction

APPENDIX

• Report of a commission of three officers of the United States Army on the de Bussigny system