Training riders in an athletic way, regardless of level.
Trollspeilet is training riders who want to understand more, and who want to ride in an athletic and classically correct way. We have developed an instruction system that gives good results for riders who are afraid, unbalanced, stiff, uncoordinated, in pain, insensitive, have other problems with their seat, or just want to excel in their sport. We welcome all riders and horses, regardless of level, breed, ambition, handicap, or riding style.
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Thank you for the useful videos and especially seeing the different horses!! I wish to ask please, before doing those exercises, are you warming up (at walk)? Or you start straight away? Thank you very much!!
Thank you so much for this live stream. Was watching that day or I should say was listening in my AirPods while I was working the barn. I love the explanations, and the phenomenal horse people that you both are!
Bitless makes a horse a better partner, no tugging on the mouth, i don't care what anyone says..that is extremely hurtful...and those that choose to keep riding with bits...it is because you the human have not taken the time to learn to teach your self total balance while riding..and learning body language...it takes time to teach yourself these new ways...ask anyone who rides without a bit or better yet no bridle what so ever..the horse makes such a better partner...
Our mission is to teach people how to ride softly and in contact both with a bit or without. There are things you cannot do bitless, but it takes time to learn. We like to explore all aspects of riding in a respectful way.
Another great stream, thank you 😊 I have noticed my body stays more relaxed when I keep reins in one hand during strike off. Or the strike off is easier..what this can tell of? I haven't yet figured out what changes?
If you ride with the reins in one hand, the contact often becomes softer, and the horse may relax more because of that. It depends on many things, but this is most often the cause. Thanks for the nice words!
Hi! We do passades, and promise to touch on that in future streams. However, we do not train school walk and school trot because we find that they disturb the diagonal rhythms that we try to encourage in the horse. We have nothing against other people training this, but we find it disturbing to our own goals and objectives. We hope you understand. :)
You do an amazing job helping your viewers see and diagnose tension and weaknesses in various areas of the horse. Have you ever shown videos that show/diagnose tension or weakness in a horse and then show the excercises that can be used on the ground and in the saddle to help improve both strength and flexibility to improve the tensions and weaknesses that are seen throughout the horse.
Hi! Thank you for your kind words. What you ask here is what we try to do. However, it is impossible to cover every exercise you may use for solving a problem in one stream. We are counting on you viewers to puzzle together what we show with your own knowledge and experience, and your feeling and compassion with the horse, to create your own solutions to the unique problems and challenges you have with a horse. We hope to be of use over time. :)
I have a horse with the same issue - he doesn’t try to bend the knees but using front part or going forward instead of up. Am I understood correctly that you use shoulder in on a circle and “therapeutic” piaffe to help the horse on the video to bend the knees?
Yes, those exercises can be used to solve a problem like that. There are also many other ways to encourage the horse to move his weight more to the hind legs, and we try to cover them in different streams. We hope you will find others of our videos that will cover other methods too. :)
I really like this video. You really need to watch this video and pay attention for the slight changes in this horse. What these two people say is important and the horse's reaction over time is interesting and great. My 16 year old horse has kissing spine and i started doing the exercises on the ", swayback icelandic" video. This was a game changer. I was able to ride her for 20 minutes without her being in pain. Thank you for sharing.
We are working on the piaffe. He prefers the levade/pesade/rearing, and plays with me or even alone with those exercises a lot. The piaffe is much more difficult for him, and I guess what you´re seeing is his struggle with lifting enough through the thoracic spine, or behind the withers, if you will.
Are you familiar at all with the Schultheis saddle? It's the most close contact saddle, designed for maximum freedom and weight riding, in the old style. Also called a Stubborn Tristan Special. I use these saddles almost every day, as a professional trainer, and they fit almost every horse, a huge variety of horses. It's probably the most important tool I use.
Great video, so raw and real. This is very similar to how I have learned how to work horses in hand. I'm still working on getting better at this, so it's very helpful to see your different horses work.
Thank you for great livestream! I have a question about foaming. What if there's foam only on other side? Is it because of crookedness? Could it be both from horse's and rider's crookedness?
Glad you liked it! Yes we often see foaming on just one side too, and we find that it is because the horse does not yet move entirely straight from the hindlegs and troung the body.
Hello I was lucky to find you by accident and really enjoy listening I have learnt so much from both of you and look forward to Watching all your videos many thanks
A good question! It is a little difficult to explain this in a comment, but we will try to include this in a future stream. You may also check out our former videos, as we have covered the topic in many other videos, but perhaps not specifically the strike off from walk to canter. Thanks for the tip!
Thank you for a fantastic topic for the equine community and hope more will view this video soon enough. Ultimately it is great when a horse and rider can go bitless together and both be happy as can be but in reality it is just not reliable for some for various of reasons. Cheers to a great program!
Good video. Most of this stuff is still beyond me but I think that I saw the last rider get the withers to rise for a few strides in trot? The woman looks really strong and well balanced but it looks like she has to work hard to keep her horse balanced? Though she is more skilled than I am, I feel like my horse and I have a similar problem except I am not able to get out of my horses way. These videos are really helping my to understand what is going wrong with my horse and I.
I really enjoy your videos and explanations of the different movements. You should have so many more subscribers but I am sure time will take care of this.
There are some suggestions in this video, and in many of our other videos. Improving the gaits is a complex task, impossible to cover in a comment. We would like to recommend watching several videos, where we try to cover many different sides of improving both techniques and communication with the horse.
Stiff in the neck and movement, it is also cold and the horse just takes a long time to warm up in colder temps. if the muscle is tight, its because if the cold, he just needs more time. He is also very foot cautious, he doesn't wait to slip.. he is a very nice horse
Thank you for this. We are used to the cold and the winter, and our horses have very good winter coats. The stiffness is caused by earlier trauma, and is the same in the summer warmth.
I soak up all of your videos like a sponge. It has made me such a better instructor, Rider, trainer. And I have been doing this for 50 years! Congratulations on your 50th video! Do you have a video that teaches the difference between lateral and unilateral half halts? I'm not very clear on them. Thank you so much for all you do! You are a joy and a gift to this world!
