A Woman's Touch Piaffe by Sylvia Burrage

This is all I do.  Depending on your goals, you must train with your end result in mind.  Piaffe can be bold and powerful, or light and elegant.  Perhaps you wish to perform with long lines, or in harness.  The work in hand can easily be continued on long lines.  My goal with the last horse on the video was to get her over her hysteria and spurts of extreme resistance and deviousness as seen in her other training.  Piaffe is the most restrictive long term training I could think of.  Week after week she would challenge the crossties rearing, plunging, kicking, hysterical, in a solid lather. She is very hard-headed and it took a long time.  but she became lovely in the crossties and I didn't have to punish her once.  She finally got tired of punishing herself.  The goal with the other mare was to add piaffe to her reinless riding routine.  As our first piaffe under saddle needs no reins, this should be easy.

These mares may be seen in my video on PIAFFE. To obtain videos, call 760-728-4632

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