What does ground work mean in the context of riding badges?
Hello everyone,
The term "groundwork" obviously encompasses a wide range. From simple leading of a horse to circus-worthy liberty dressage, everyone talks about "groundwork."
What I'm interested in is that when you take the "small riding badge" today, which is the entry-level test for competitions, there are also (Google revealed it) station tests with "ground work." But I don't quite understand what you have to do there.
Just out of curiosity – I don't plan on taking the riding badge again…
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In principle, this is about the correct conduct of a horse. For this purpose, a triangular track of rods is laid and the test specimen must guide the horse correctly. This is shown very well below: https://reitabzeichen-frage.jimdo.com/bodenarbeit/
But there is even now a riding badge groundwork, which then includes significantly more and is an additional type of FN to pull people money out of the pocket…. https://www.pferd-aktuell.de/training/qualifications-im-umgang-mit-pferd/abzeichen-bodenarbeit/abzeichen-bodenarbeit
In general, soil work is certainly not wrong and some times a probate means to get certain things under control. My problem is only the many ground workers who have little to no idea and still feel immensely called and organize genuine cheese with the horses.
Thank you
I realized that there are a lot of things.
I used to be at the Marlie (“Pferde like moved by magic hand”) and watched me a book and a few videos from the convict. These are concepts that I think must be learned at least as intensively as riding. Yes, I find this even more demanding than riding, and get a thick neck when everyone thinks that they have to experiment on their own.
But that doesn’t have much to do with what the lawyers have to do if someone wants to ride a tournament. And the pre-pattern of a horse is already demanded in the basic pass – it did not exist at my time. At that time the breeder was simply sent off with the mare to be awarded without knowing it, let alone having ever practiced it. It was obvious that a rider can do that…I had never seen it before. Luckily, “my” mare was not the first to do so, so I could watch someone else before. There was no more “guide train”.
Now there are always so many questions about groundwork here that I became curious about what it is now for the normal equestrian.
But honestly, I can still imagine what it is.
Are you expecting all seriousness that a child who wants to ride a little tournament will prove that his pony is bulletproof? Or what do you want to do? And if the four-legged tuple doesn’t lift the feet in such a nem stupid rod labyrinth, you have fallen through and you don’t need to try it with riding?
I don’t understand the world anymore.
So honestly, what you need for the badge of groundwork has been done by us at the stable. The bravst school horse is taken, enough practiced and then that goes. Where the benefit of this undertaking is not really great….
You have to be able to run on both sides, right?
To guide a horse from the other side, shouldn’t really be a difficulty, should it?
You’re thinking of those whose horses are complimenting on the train, but then their people lead to the next grassy neck, who cares about trambling around on the feet of the people and something like that;-) … me too. That’s why it’s important to me that you really use the groundwork for the basic education or memory, or extension of education, instead of for any kind of stuff that is a nice addition, if you really have nothing more to work… I wouldn’t want the horse that never asks. I can’t suffer obediently without interest.
Help – no one wanted to attack you here that you had to shout “aua”. However, it was already in Salyvita’s answer to this on both sides, so I wondered about this demand. 🤗
It doesn’t. I’ve been riding for 9 years, I’ll probably be able to lead a pea from the other side!!! It was just a question whether you have to do this in the RA, good question is there to ask questions or not!?
On the .drawings there on the Internet, this looks complicated for me. Probably because I can just imagine nix below.
I’ve seen people who got their horse back through a bar – U bugsiert. Then I thought, o weia, I should give the driver’s license, let alone parking a horse like this… 😂😂
looked at an RAZ where that was required. One had to guide the horse once in a stretched triangular path, hold, then turn back correctly and return. That’s it, too, that would have come after 1x every beginner
Then that’s the less than what you have to do for the basic pass? Because, I watched it, and they had to put a horse properly foreshadows, also in the trab and with “offer”.
Correct running of a horse 🙂
Actually, I’ve been thinking about it for years…
As Sallyvita has already explained, this is about performing on the triangular path. It’s nothing about honest obedience, it’s actually just about the lines and attitude. Rather based on premiums, etc.
Also the extra badge “groundwork” I find in person somehow… well, for me a self-evidentness, in the content, not the badge.
For me, however, that’s all I’ve done as absolute basics. A horse has to go with me, stop, let it be moved laterally, without resistance and without touch from me, let it be sent back. I also find different lead positions, of course.
I’m just like you… I don’t understand the meaning of it. They used to learn something like that at the base pass. Except for the triangular path – you only learned when you had to do with breeders.