USUAL OR INSTINCTIVE EQUITATION 



without stirrups. Calisthenic exercises. Stopping 

 and walking. Individual turn. Successive semi- 

 turn. Successive turn. Trotting, Calisthenics, etc., 

 as above, while trotting. Walking. Individual half- 

 turn. Individual turn, stopping, and starting again 

 to a trot. Galloping. Calisthenic exercises, etc., as 

 in walking and trotting. Stopping and starting to 

 the gallop. This whole programme is to be gone 

 through, first with stirrups, and then a second time 

 without. 



The time has not yet come for learning to manage 

 the horse. This will come later. At the end of the 

 second year, the young pupil ought to be able to 

 perform all these movements easily, without stir- 

 rups. Circular movements have been included in 

 the programme, since the pupil should be made 

 accustomed to all directions and to producing all 

 kinds of movements. 



Let the pupil also bear in mind that just as to 

 become a good sailor one must not be afraid of 

 seasickness, so to become a good rider one must not 

 be afraid of the rough movements of the horse. 

 Once accustomed to these, one learns in due time 

 to counteract them. But if one tries from the 

 start to repress these sudden jerks, he never 

 becomes used to them, and his contractive efforts 

 will, sooner or later, be turned into stiffness. 



Now this condition of stiffness is precisely what 

 the learner ought to avoid from the very outset. 

 But for the beginner the greatest difficulty of all is 



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