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NOVEMBER 2006 • VOLUME 15 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
Levade and Pesade are both French words. But they both come from Italian, the equestrian language that was used before the French became our equestrian language in the XVIIth century. Levade comes from the root word "lever" to lift. Pesade comes from the root word "peser" to weigh down. Some riders use these two terms indiscriminately, although we do expect the pesade to be a higher lift than the levade. Today this is how most people differentiate between the two words. Seeing the one, the Pesade, to be a more rear like movement more likely to be seen in Saumur and the Portuguese Riding School, and the Levade a lower settling over the haunches that we most often associate with the Spanish Riding School. But in the past and still today at the riding school there is more to these two terms than just what they look like and how high or low the horse goes. It is more about the training methods used to achieve each and how the different training methods can provide us with different access to our horses.
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