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QUESTIONNAIRE TO USE OF THE RIDERS CONCERNING THEIR INDIVIDUAL PERCEPTION OF RELATION WITH THE HORSE
(Preparatory survey to the presentation of "Going along with your horse" - Copyright © Library of Congress / Washington DC/Octobre 2000) by Michel FÉVRIER (Monitor of horsemanship -1974 - Master of Merry-go-round -1975)

1° Do you think to know well the physical and mental state of your horse ? ( nick the utile: yes no s.o.)
2° Do you estimate like a priority to know the physical and mental state of your horse? yes no s.o.
3° Do you think horse is a being of "suffering?" yes no s.o.
4° Do you think, as a rule, that the resistances of the horse are always bound to "physical pains"? yes no s.o.
5° Do you think, that the resistances of the horse are always bound to "mental pains?" yes non s.o.
6° Do you think that the physical resistances of the horse are always bound to "mental pains?" yes no s.o.
7° Is his maladjusted behavior due to a mental excessive in case of extreme defenses? yes no s.o.
8° Do you think that his maladjusted behavior is due to a deficient "physical state"? yes no s.o.
9° Do you think that one can annihilate all resistances of a horse? yes no s.o.
10° Do you think that the reports by force are obligatory sometimes so that he obeys? yes no s.o.
11° Do you think that the reports by force with the horse are always obligatory so that he obeys? yes no s.o.
12° Do you think that a horse can obey to you without coercion? yes no s.
13° Do you use the spurs and the horsewhip to oblige horse to obey more quickly? yes no s.o.
14° Do you use the spurs and the horsewhip like "educational helps?" yes no s.o.
15° Do you think that the horse can put " bad will" in this which one asks him to execute? yes no s.o.
16° Do you think that the horse can put "good will" in this which one asks him to execute? yes no s.o.
17° Do you think that the moods of the horse are due to physical and/or mental deficienses? yes no s.o.
18° Do you think that the rider's behavior is for something? yes no s.o.
19° Do you think that the horse have a different behavior according to the rider who goes up it? yes no s.o.
20° Do you think that the horse is obliged to understand what the rider will? yes no s.o.
21° Do you think that the rider must understand what the horse will? yes no s.o.
22° Do you think that the rider must be responsible, fully-fledged, of the conduct of his horse? yes no s.o.
23° Do you think that "bad horses" exist? yes no s.o.
24° Do you think that "bad riders" exist? yes no s.o. .
25° Do you think that the "instinct" of the horse can be an obstacle to his schooling? yes no s.o.
26° Do you think that the horses can have different storage capacities? yes no s.o.
27° Do you think that the horses are more or less easy to raise according to their sensitivity? yes no s.o.
28° Do you think that the manner to make is the same with riders of more or less equal level? yes no s.o.
29° Do you think that any rider can bring up very trained horses? yes no s.o.
30° Can the horse have the right not to execute this that one asks him and therefore to rebel? yes no s.o.
31° Can the horse make the choice to accept the rider's requirements? yes no s.o.
32° Can the rider let his horse to submit, of his full will, to his requirements? yes no s.o.
33° Can the horse stay concentrated all the time under the rider's will? yes no s.o.
34° Is the sense of time the same for the horse and for us? yes no s.o.
35° For you, is the horse a lower animal? yes no s.o.
36° Is this the rider's to understand the horse? yes no s.o.
37° Is this the horse's to understand the rider? yes no s.o.
38° Do you think that, in the relation of the horse with his rider, one can treat on equal terms? yes no s.o.
39° Is the horse raised in the constraint can be a "quiet horse" ? yes no s.o.
40° Is a horse ready to go very quickly means forward? yes no s.o.
41° Do you think that a horse who has some difficulties to turn" short" is well ? yes no s.o.
42° Do you think that what is good for the rider is necessarily good for the horse? yes no s.o.
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RESULTS (Questions 1 to 42)
Count your points below in the picture

n°	yes	no	s.o.	n°	yes	no	s.o.	n°	yes	no	s.o.	n°	yes	no	s.o.
1	1	3	2	12	3	1	2	23	1	3	2	34	1	3	2
2	3	1	2	13	1	3	2	24	1	3	2	35	1	3	2
3	3	1	2	14	3	1	2	25	1	3	2	36	3	1	2
4	3	1	2	15	1	3	2	26	3	1	2	37	1	3	2
5	3	1	2	16	1	3	2	27	3	1	2	38	3	1	2
6	3	1	2	17	3	1	2	28	1	3	2	39	1	3	2
7	1	3	2	18	3	1	2	29	3	1	2	40	1	3	2
8	3	1	2	19	3	1	2	30	3	1	2	41	1	3	2
9	1	3	2	20	1	3	2	31	3	1	2	42	1	3	2
10	1	3	2	21	3	1	2	32	3	1	2
11	1	3	2	22	3	1	2	33	3	1	2

Of 0 to 84 points (A)	Of 85 to 105 points (B)	Of 106 to 126 points (C)
In the relation with your horse, you have a simple approach or even simplistic. This report is, either to a total interest lack for the animal, either to cultural hiatuses; maybe the lack of time; more plausible, the absence of information on the evolution of the equestrian methods and the understanding of the horse. The fact that you became aware, at the end of this test, of the weakness of your equestrian cultural bases must incite you to direct your reflection better. It will allow you to establish with your horse a real communication, more comfortable for the mind, than a simple relation from " dominating" toward " to be dominated." .	You ask a lot of questions and this test seemed you" the final assommoir!" You are right however: one never asks especially enough questions the good. The cultural weaknesses of which you have conscience fill themselves with the progression of the development of your lucidity. You must exercise your critical mind and hesitate not sometimes to jostle the ideas too quickly received. You discerned all kindness that one can pull a respectful relation with the horse well. The mind is not far from the letter, you have the possibility to progress, go there, the mistakes are paying when one knows why one made them.	You have the sense of that one can call a relation" on equal terms" with the horse. You know that a physical to all test gives a mental of the same nature. Now, you can take two directions: - either to satisfy you of your" lived", - either to continue to deepen this sense positive of the relation that you have with the animal. It is certain that having arrived to the phase of the discount in question of what you believed to know, it is not easy to leave in the indicated direction that himself imposes as the only one of good. It is you that have the cards between your hands, you have to persuade you, by yourselves that you have the good.

43° Does the horse pose problems to the rider? yes no s.o.
44° Does the rider pose problems to the horse? yes no s.o.
45° Do you think that the seat of the resistances of the horse is located entirely in his hindquarter? yes no s.o.
46° Does the engagement of the posteriors appear more important than the muscular work? yes no s.o.
47° Is the posteriors's place more easy while fixing the head-neck block upwards? yes no s.o.
48° Is the posteriors's place more easy while fixing the head-neck block downwards? yes no s.o.
49° Is the posteriors's place more easy while fixing the head-neck block between the two? yes no s.o.
50° Are him possible to make the tether yield a horse with a better result that if he/it had gone up? yes no s.o.
51° Can one raise a horse with a tether on a circle of 20 meters of diameter, without enrênements? yes no s.o.
52° Do you think that the transfer is gotten with the same speed in these two cases? yes no s.o.
53° Is it necessary to privilege the construction of the back in relation to the fixity of the nape? yes no s.o.
54° Is it necessary to privilege the fixity of the nape in relation to the construction of the back? yes no s.o.
55° Does one get the fixity of the nape by the muscular construction of the back of the horse? yes no s.o.
56° Is it the hand that stretches the horse? yes no s.o.
57° Does the action of the leg have to be made with the action of the hand to stretch the horse? yes no s.o.
58° Is it possible to have a tense and relax horse without the permanent action of the hands and legs? yes no s.o.
59° That in the coming down of the hands and legs is not able to make itself that with a very set horse? yes no s.o.
60° Do get one the engagement of the posteriors under the mass in the elongation that follows a slowing? yes no s.o.
61° Do get one the engagement of the posteriors under the mass in the slowing that follows an elongation? yes no s.o.
62° Is the work on the circle obligatory to get the engagement of the posteriors under the mass? yes no s.o.
63° The degree of rotation of the nape depends it of the one of the incurvation of the line of the over? yes no s.o.
64° does the engagement of the outside posterior provoke the obtaining of the fixity of the lateral transfer? yes no s.o.
65° Is the work on the circle indispensable to get the change of foot? yes no s.o.
66° In work on two tracks, must one privilege the incurvation of the line of the over? yes non s.o.
67° In work on two tracks, must one privilege the engagement of the outside posterior? yes no s.o.
68° work on two tracks is it indispensable to make the horse more right? yes no s.o.
69° work on two tracks is it indispensable to make the horse lighter? yes no s.o.
70° Do you think to get you the thrust of the posteriors after having put them in place? yes no s.o.
71° Do you believe that the obtaining to stamp him, does passage depend more the rider's science than of the horse? yes no s.o.
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RÉSULTS (Questions 43 to 71)
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n°	yes	no	s.o.	n°	yes	no	s.o.	n°	yes	no	s.o.
43	1	3	2	54	1	3	2	65	3	1	2
44	3	1	2	55	3	1	2	66	3	1	2
45	3	1	2	56	1	3	2	67	3	1	2
46	1	3	2	57	1	3	2	68	3	1	2
47	1	3	2	58	3	1	2	69	3	1	2
48	1	3	2	59	1	3	2	70	3	1	2
49	1	3	2	60	3	1	2	71	1	3	2
50	3	1	2	61	3	1	2
51	3	1	2	62	3	1	2
52	3	1	2	63	3	1	2
53	3	1	2	64	3	1	2

Of 0 to 58 points (D)	Of 59 to 72 points (E)	Of 73 to 87 points (F)
Some important hiatuses are revealed as for your knowledge of the technical working of the body building of the horse and his/her/its mental. They are located more precisely in the non consistency that seems to cause you no worry, between the before-hand and the hindquarter. In the same way, the brain of the horse seems not to exist or to exist but outside of you. You must not remain anymore in the attitude of the" schoolkid" or the one that undergoes. He/it is clear that him to become you aware that the horse is a living being and that to this title, he can also undergo him of the lesions and endure some. It is necessary that you make a certain effort to understand that the horse is an all inseparable.	You are conscious of the difficulty to return to the horse all his/her/its consistency, so much muscular that mental. You try to solve the problems of resistance of the horse while trying to maintain a permanent compromise, without arriving however to a satisfactory result. A good technicality always palliates to prompt insufficiencies. She/it is not for as much the panacea insofar as she/it doesn't solve the problem definitely. This technicality must be used to refine itself/themselves; his/her/its progression must be permanent at the risk of stagnating, or even to regress. It is necessary to assure you that the horse gave up well before asking him whatever it is.	You work at a time in the muscular and mental sense of the horse. You understood well that all functioned at the same time. Your helps are used to good knowledge, while measuring out every effect. The reason of resistance of the horse is always very definite. You understood and integrated perfectly work on the circle that a lot of too many riders disregard. You are yourselves open the carries toward a horsemanship bringing to work the horse, in the" exactness" of his/her/its physical and mental capacities of the moment. The only thing that remains you to make, it is to show evidence of patience and especially not to interrupt this progression that is bound to the one of your horse.

The consequences of the improvement of the physical and mental state of the horse

72° Do you think that the work of body building of the back of the horse can improve its balance? yes no s.o.
73° Do you think that the improvement of the balance of your horse is useful, in the practice of all horsemanship? yes no s.o.
74° Do you feel in security, with your horse, in the exercises of your activities? yes no s.o.
75° Do you think that your horse feels everywhere in security where you are with him? yes no s.o.
76° Would like that your horse trusts you more? yes no s.o.
77° Would like to grant you more trustworthy to your horse? yes no s.o.
78° Are you capable to discern an abnormal reaction quickly and to discern the reason immediately of it? yes no s.o.
79° Have you the capacity in this situation and in the same circumstances to keep your quiet horse? yes no s.o.
80° Are you on that a means always exist to improve the conduct of his/her/its horse smoothly? yes no s.o.
81° Do you think to be able to change you the character of your horse? yes no s.o.
82° Do you hink to be able to improve you his/her/its character? yes no s.o.
83° Do of the moments of discouragement give you them sometimes the impression of ever to be able to arrive there? yes no 84° Have you had the impression sometimes to know that the solution existed without finding it for as much? yes no s.o.
85° Do you think that your horse reached his/her/its limits? yes no s.o.
86° Do you think that you reached your limits in schooling? yes no s.o.
87° Do your professional activities prevent you them to repulse your limits? yes no s.o.
88° After all, this that you know is sufficient you maybe? yes no s.o.
89° When you practice the jump of obstacle, you always try to arrive on the" good" stride? yes no s.o.
90° When you practice the jump of obstacle, you always try to arrive rightly" on the stride?" yes no s.o.
91° When you practice the jump of obstacle, you feel secured you by your horse? yes no s.o.
92° On the dish, does your horse have tendency to give some impulses upwards and downwards? yes no s.o.
93° Your horse has him tendency to make deviate his/her/its hips? yes no s.o.
94° Your horse has him tendency to" to move" to the stop? yes no s.o.
95° Your horse has him tendency to provoke ruptures of cadence? yes no s.o.
96° Are him topic sometimes, to ruptures of pace? yes no s.o.
97° Would you ave an attitude different from coercive if one offered you the means of it? yes no s.o.
98° Do you think, to your age and to your level, to have the capacity all to put back in reason? yes no s.o.
99° At the very least, you would tempt the experience? yes no s.o.
100° Do you think that the horse can be perfectible to every minute passed to work him? yes no s.o.
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RÉSULTS (Questions 72 to 100)
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n°	yes	no	s.o.	n°	yes	no	s.o.	n°	yes	no	s.o.
72	3	1	2	83	3	1	2	94	1	3	2
73	3	1	2	84	3	1	2	95	1	3	2
74	3	1	2	85	1	3	2	96	1	3	2
75	3	1	2	86	1	3	2	97	3	1	2
76	3	1	2	87	3	1	2	98	3	1	2
77	3	1	2	88	1	3	2	99	3	1	2
78	3	1	2	89	3	1	2	100	3	1	2
79	3	1	2	90	3	1	2
80	3	1	2	91	3	1	2
81	1	3	2	92	1	3	2
82	1	3	2	93	1	3	2

Of 0 to 58 points (G)	Of 59 to 72 points (H)	Of 73 to 87 points (I)
You are not curious of the animal that you go up. You live on a strict minimum of acquirement that seems perfectly to suit you. You don't know that you pass next to something very important for you. You seem to be attracted more toward your personal comfort that the one of your horse. He/it is never too late to realize the necessity to be interested in the other, would not be that that to sit his/her/its own security. The trustworthy lack can have troublesome consequences, for one as for the other. In case of difficulties, whatever is their natures, the horse can play his/her/its card very well also him and can release you as you would have the more need of him. Think, come back toward the world équin	It is not even gained, but one is on the good road! You understood the whole profit that the horse pulled a progressive work well. It is necessary for you to continue while giving the good indications to your horse while assuring you the proof of their just answers. You don't have the total mastery of your animal again; put the monitor points where you feel the need of it. He/it doesn't serve strictly to anything to go beyond or on this side of what the horse can give you. To make the" kilometer-horse" doesn't advance to much. Continue this work of observation of the horse. It is he, better than whoever, that will be able to bring you the solution to your problems. You have the œil to see, then, continue to good to serve of it to you.	You have a good perception of that that the horse waits for you. You come with it without preceding it ever, nor to remain backward. You take it as he/it is while thinking about to improve his/her/its physical capacities constantly. The consequences on his/her/its mental are a precious profit that allows him to want to save you the stake for example at the time of an unforeseen incident in the access of an obstacle. You understood the interest well to develop the muscular capacity of the horse. You understood well that without the work of body building and other exercises of softening of the joints, he/it cannot have a lightness there. One cannot go without the other. Knowing it, you will never have anything else that of good horses in rider's life.

You privilege the reports by force and it is you that carry the horse (You remain in an exploitation of the potential of your underhand horse of 50%)
LEVELS (B), (E), (H)
You privilege the compromises by force facing the reports and you manage to support you mutually somehow (You sail in an exploitation of the potential of your horse to 50%)
LEVELS (C), (F), (I)
You privilege the exact assessment of the physical and mental state of your horse and it is the horse who carries you (You cleared the rod of the 50% of the exploitation of the potential of your horse)

NB: this assessment doesn't have anything to see with the rider's level on the plans of diplomas of the equestrian teaching or those of regional, national or international classes of competition.
AUDIT PRÉPARATOIRE A L'ÉTUDE DE " CHEVAL OBLIGE II " PAR Michel FÉVRIER 1