Driving course

Our goal is to make you discover or improve your skills in this hobby, to accompany you in the different stages that constitute this activity. The ultimate goal is that you find pleasure in practicing hitching with optimal safety.

initiation  course for beginners

This course is made for those who want to get started and structure their project by discovering the different facets of driving and the basics of good practice in this activity.

During this day, a lot of information is provided, starting with the fact of fetching the horses from the boxes or stalls, grooming, trimming, stripping, hitching, unhitching, holding guides and driving a horse, the route, the role of the teammate and of course the safety rules to be adopted around a horse and a carriage. The organization of the day mainly provides for the theoretical part for the morning and the practice for the afternoon.

This course is accessible whether you know the horse, whether you are a rider or without any previous contact with the horse.

The reception is from 9.30 am for the start of the course at 10 am, the midday meal is taken in the form of the Spanish inn, everyone brings something to share and the course ends around 5 pm. 

 

Driving training à la semaine

The program adapts according to the participants in the course.

It allows you to dive deeper and progress during this week. it is also an opportunity to change pace and take the time to adapt to that of the horses.

Each day a different theme is approached, it can be: the handling of the guides, the use of the whip, the voice, the role of the teammate, or even the feeding and the management of a horse at home, what type, or model of horse, carriage, harness, their maintenance, working on maneuverability, perfecting precision, and flexibility... In short, there is always something to learn and improve.

Overall, it's theory in the morning with also exercises on a simulator, or in pairs, workshops allowing you to work on specific points and go into details. And harnessed practice in the afternoon. In General, half a day is reserved for work with long reins and the last half day is to discover another facet of the driving horse, work in freedom, market gardening, hauling, the pair (if the course is unrolled in single), ... .

Every morning, briefing and program of the day at 9.30am lunches are taken in the form of the Spanish inn (everyone brings something to share) a break of about 2 hours and the course ends around 5pm.

Evening meals, breakfast and accommodation depend on the reservation chosen.

 

Maneuverability

This course allows you to improve your skills in driving a team. The more precise your driving, the safer you will be. The principle of maneuverability is to slalom between blocks with a system of gates to pass. Very specific points are to be worked on during these courses, the cadence, the pace, the trajectories, but also the gaze, the position, the quality of the contact, the curvature, the inter or intra-pace transitions, the stopping of precision,...

 

The point worked in the morning depends on the participants, in the afternoon it is integrated into a global maneuverability.

 

The reception is from 9.30 am for the start of the course at 10 am, the midday meal is taken in the form of the Spanish inn, everyone brings something to share and the course ends around 5 pm.

The animal traction

The market gardening

You wish to optimize your pastures, to have grass in quantity and quality. Learn how to manage them, it's essential to have beautiful meadows in the long term.

And of course why not do it with a horse, combine business with pleasure.

 

This course includes a theoretical part on the management of pastures in the morning and a practical part with the use of trailed tools.

 

 

 

The reception is from 9.30 am for the start of the course at 10 am, the midday meal is taken in the form of the Spanish inn, everyone brings something to share and the course ends around 5 pm.

around 5 pm.

Horse skidding

This activity is a change of scenery from the world of classic driving. The fundamentals stand out for security reasons. The co-worker horse with whom firmness and complicity are required.

 

The education of the horse; rigorous in these stops, in the precision of these movements and the quantity of vocabulary understood; makes him a partner.

 

On the program: Presentation of the characteristics of this practice, the necessary equipment, the simulator of course, how to hitch and practice on straight lines and very wide curves in a wood.

 

The reception is from 9.30 am for the start of the course at 10 am, the midday meal is taken in the form of the Spanish inn, everyone brings something to share and the course ends around 5 pm.

For go to further

A pair hitch

Different levels and programs are available.

The 4-horse hitch (temporarily unavailable)

You can learn or improve your skills in driving a 4-person team.

The emulation between the horses in this harnessed type is not comparable. And beautiful feelings emerge from it.

On the program: Presentation of the characteristics of this hitch, the necessary equipment, the simulator of course, how to hitch and practice on straight lines and very wide curves in the surrounding countryside.

Other programs are possible on request.

The reception is from 9.30 am for the start of the course at 10 am, the midday meal is taken in the form of the Spanish inn, everyone brings something to share and the course ends around 5 pm.

 

Unicom (crossbow)

This hitch gives sensations between the tandem and the hitch to 4. Whether from a technical point of view or emulation between the horses.

On the program: Presentation of the characteristics of this hitch, the necessary equipment, the simulator of course, how to hitch and practice on straight lines and very wide curves in the surrounding countryside.

 

Other programs are possible on request.

The reception is from 9.30 am for the start of the course at 10 am, the midday meal is taken in the form of the Spanish inn, everyone brings something to share and the course ends around 5 pm. 

The tandem

Find out how to drive a tandem. The calm, the concentration and the rigor make it possible to take great pleasure in leading this harness, the most technical of all.

 

On the program: Presentation of the characteristics of this hitch, the necessary equipment, the simulator of course, how to hitch and practice on straight lines and very wide curves in the surrounding countryside.*

 

Other programs are possible on request.

 

The reception is from 9.30 am for the start of the course at 10 am, the midday meal is taken in the form of the Spanish inn, everyone brings something to share and the course ends around 5 pm.

 

To discover otherwise

Work in freedom or equestrian tact

What is a horse, how to understand it and communicate with it.

What we should all start with; Learn to observe them and get to know them to better communicate with them.

 

On the program: In the morning, presentation of the characteristics of the horse species, their vital needs, their senses, their language... .

 

The afternoon put into practice on work in freedom. In the work round you will be on foot with a horse "free" of these movements, without tools, it will be up to you to drive.

Other programs are possible on request.

The reception is from 9.30 am for the start of the course at 10 am, the midday meal is taken in the form of the Spanish inn, everyone brings something to share and the course ends around 5 pm.

L'accueil se fait à partir de 9h30 pour un début de stage à 10h, le repas du midi est pris sous la forme de l'auberge espagnole, chacun apporte quelque chose à partager et le stage se termine autour de 17h.

 

Work with long reins

Take your walking shoes, this activity allows you to take your horse out and have a physical activity yourself. it is an activity that is also interesting in winter. We are never cold when we walk, even in snowy weather, which is quite nice. No more excuses not to go out.

It is also the work that any future carriage horse must know how to do and that anyone wishing to do animal traction with trailed tools, market gardening or skidding must also know how to do.

On the program: Presentation of the work with long reins, the position, the holding of the guides, the management of the flow, the voice...

Put into practice in the surrounding countryside.

Other programs are possible on request.

 

The reception is from 9.30 am for the start of the course at 10 am, the midday meal is taken in the form of the Spanish inn, everyone brings something to share and the course ends around 5 pm.

 

The physical preparation of the horse (New)

You want to keep your horse in top shape, to restore flexibility and symmetry. Come and learn some simple exercises to do regularly. And maintain its shape.

 

The reception is from 9.30 am for the start of the course at 10 am, the midday meal is taken in the form of the Spanish inn, everyone brings something to share and the course ends around 5 pm.

 

 

More information or a reservation, please contact Julie Wynands

by phone: 06.71.92.85.865 86

by email : julie.wynands@hotmail.fr