Passengers (horse riding)
Passengers (also passage ) refers to a movement of the horse belonging to the high school in equestrian sport and in the classical art of riding ; it is also included as a lesson in top-class dressage tests (especially Grand Prix Spécial ).
Passing consists in the fact that the trot is carried out in delayed steps with an extended support or hang leg phase. The actual floating phase, i.e. the time in which all four hooves are without ground contact, is greatly reduced. The impression of floating results from the extended slope leg phase, as this means that a diagonal pair of legs is longer in the air. The forearms are raised almost to the horizontal and the hindquarters increasingly step under the body. The horse goes forward with little gain in space.
Like the similar piaffe , the passage is derived from the stallion's impressive behavior . It requires high congregation . The passage can be developed from the piaffe in that the horse, piaffing well in time, moves forward from the piaffe to spatially shortened trot steps. The cadence of the piaffe is retained, there is a very short floating phase compared to the other trot variants.
The passage is also referred to as the Spanish Step in the Spanish Riding School in Vienna . The Spanish step has to be distinguished from the passage .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nancy Nicholson: BioMechanical Riding and Dressage: A Rider's Atlas , based on measurements by HM Clayton, discussion: http://dressur-studien.ning.com/group/diesunddas/forum/topics/passage-und-schwebephase ( Memento from 7 July 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
