The gymnastics horse is an artistic gymnastic apparatus. It is a metal frame covered in foam rubber and leather, with plastic handles. It is typically used by male gymnasts.
The pommel horse requires the gymnast to perform both single and double leg workouts. It also demands good balance and a metronomic tempo to execute the various twisting, circling and jumping exercises.
A pommel horse routine typically starts with the gymnast riding up to the apparatus at a trot, and then switching to canter. This helps to develop the horse’s suppleness and the movement required for the various gymnastics. The gymnast then begins his or her circling skills. These might include a simple circle around the horse, circling with the legs (moores and spindles), straddling their legs and swinging them (flairs) or placing one or both hands on the pommel or the leather and traveling up and down the apparatus (travelling).
Once these basic circling and moving skills have been mastered, the gymnast can move on to more advanced maneuvers. These might include straddling the legs and jumping over them (moores), swinging them in a clockwise direction while standing up on the horse (flairs) or moving up and down the apparatus with either hand placed on the pommel or on the leather, as well as balancing both feet by hopping them on and off the pommel or by putting them on the cross and then traveling up and down.
It is the upper body strength required for pommel horse that distinguishes it from women’s gymnastics, which generally demand more power in the lower body. In addition, the higher level of difficulty required on the pommel horse tends to be more challenging for a woman than for a man.
Despite the difficulty, many gymnasts love to compete on the pommel horse, and there are some spectacular routines to be seen. One of the most amazing was Britain’s Max Whitlock’s medal-winning performance in Rio, just hours after he had won gold on the floor.
While there are some important precautions to take when training on the pommel horse, such as proper warm-up and cool down, a focus on technique over quantity of repetitions, and the use of protective padding, it can be an excellent way to improve a horse’s agility, scope and balance, as well as his or her ability to stay on during difficult moments.
This gymnastic is a nice little exercise that you can leave in your arena and work on a few times a week. It can be approached at the trot for less experienced horses or at a canter for more advanced ones. The first part of the exercise consists of three bounces, each placed 3.2 meters apart. Then there is a cross which should be jumped in the center of the jumps. The last part of the gymnastic is a stride jump 6.4 meters from the crosses. This will really help to improve your horse’s front end and get him or her thinking about the next stride as he is approaching it.
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