Ania wrote:
which muscles are engaged and how they work, how it helps to produce the basis for another, more difficult exercise, which can be a basis for even more difficult exercise. And so on
although I hope that I understand why I teach what, I'm sure that others will explain it better
Good points!
That's also going to happen over here in the Groundwork session with each exercise, but they're still in progress.
Indeed which exercise is going to be used later in which other one, so that people can follow one exercise instead of an entire level too. I tried that already in explaining how the cordeo-cue for the ramener, halt and backing up is the same and for what reason. But in other exercises this will come too. For example: from lifting the hooves you develop 1. jambette to Spanish walk and pesade, and 2. to piaffe and from that to pesade. Quite complicated already!
By the way; a very good book on the benefits of tricktraining exercises (spanish walk, rear, sit, bow etc.) seems to be Eva Wiemers Zirzenische Lektionen part 2. I just bought it, haven't read it yet
, but it should be totally about what each exercise does with the body of the horse. If you read German, that can be very good too. Too bad it has only about 20 black&white drawings on 300 pages of text...