Piaffe

The piaffe (from French " piaffer " = prance, stomp ) is an exercise of classical riding, in which the horse a trot -like movement at the point ( or with little extra space ) shows with tucked underneath hindquarters.

Horse show this sequence of movements as natural behavior at high agitation or excitement.

The piaffe is testing relevant part of the higher dressage FEI and is in many riding styles maintained as folklore (eg, in the Iberian Peninsula, in Pakistan and India and in many South American countries).

The piaffe is one of the art gaits ( ornate decorations of the natural gaits ). It provides the ornamentation of gait trot art represents the other gaits are Spanish walk, as finishing step, passage, as a refinement of Terre à Terre and trot, Mezair and Courbetten as refinement of the gallop.

The favorable impact on the balance and the permeability of the horse describe the book authors of all ages, universally regarded as significant. Here are not equally suitable for all horses piaffe. It requires the innate lofty, noble movement and a lively but also patient temperament. In carrying out value is set such that the rider has the reins not necessary, because the horse makes the exercise of out. The piaffe is mostly trained by the hand and run later under the rider. Hinrichs shares the aids in a four building blocks: excessive bustle, bustle full, wait for effect, finish off recapitulation. He recommends to awaken a lazy horse in brief reprises and soothe an over-zealous horse in long repeats. Francois Baucher are under strict orders, especially in the piaffe meticulously the rule " hands without legs, legs without hands " followed. He means that rein and leg aids should never be used simultaneously. Steinbrecht provides the perfect piaffe when the front leg almost rises to the horizontal, the neck is well raised and the horse chews with every step in the teeth. This illustrates Philippe Karl in a field test, which proves that only the piaffe with the neck at the highest point, the front leg in the vertical and lowered croup is able to shift the body weight of the horse more on the hind legs.

As errors are described:

• After bouncing back out hindquarters
• Adhesive (lack of activity ) hindquarters
• Fronds or " linen- weavers " (lateral lunges of the hind legs )
• Nachtreten (short Zwischenauffußen of Hinterhufes )
• Croup higher than withers
• Excessive crawling under the hindquarters
• Lack of erection of the withers
• Arrears forehand
• Lowered neck, Überzäumung

As railway figures in the piaffe called Holleuffer the " cross in the piaffe ," a cross-shaped forward, sideways and backwards running piaffe (see also Sarabande ), the " Piaffpirouette ", a slow rotation around the hindquarters in the piaffe and the " piaffe in the movement, " in the end of the piaffe a pesade is added (see also Falkade ).