How to use it?
MATH ® requires precise and simple learning:
- An explanatory time at standstill: Using resistance on the MATH ® in the middle, we'll encourage the head to lower. When the head is relaxed and lowered, reward your horse. Repeat this reflex several times to make it easier for the horse to understand. In the course of the session, if the horse resists too much, we'll repeat this explanation.
- After warming up without tension, we'll mobilize at the walk, several times the hips outwards on a small circle to then encourage the neck descent by enlarging it.
- We'll repeat transitions trot-pas so that the horse perceives the release of tension.
Prolonged descent requires postural balancing and progressive lengthening of the thoracolumbar fascias, which is not immediate and will require several sessions.
Progressiveness and relaxation will be the basis for using MATH ®, to encourage rather than constrain.
Progressive emphasis will be placed on engaging the hind legs under the mass, then mobilizing the last lumbar vertebrae and vertical thrust through passing bars on the floor.