Five Year Old | Juan Manuel Muñoz Díaz | PART 01

Juan Manuel rides a five year old Lusitano stallion from Brazil showing us his training session starting with a relaxed walk As they go to the trot he works on acceptance of the contact with his neck more forward He keeps a straight line maintaining the rhythm and asks him to accept the hands with contact and offers a stretch He gives a great demonstration of the frame needed in the trot in the warm up In the canter the stallion isnt accepting the leg so Juan Manuel describes the exercises he uses to improve the canter He repeats the exercises to the other side They begin the working session with trot and then canter always making sure to keep the forward momentum He does some shoulder in at the trot and talks about how important it is to keep the rhythm and attitude without too strong of a contact