Class 107 spells out — horseman to horsemen — what contact actually is — and why it only exists when the horse is calm (loose), forward, and straight on his own.

This course strips away modern shortcuts, vague feelings, and mechanical myths and returns to a disciplined, testable reality: contact as an effect, not an action. When throughness is correct, contact becomes inevitable, elastic, and honest. When it is not, no technique can fake it.

Throughness allows clear transmission of motion, momentum, and impulse (including information), from engaged hindquarters, through an un-impinged topline, via the rider’s seat… and finally: through the hand. In this class you will learn to ride “on the bit”, which requires engagement, looseness, straightness, and uphill balance as physiological realities — not abstractions — so the horse can carry himself and carry you in soundness and true athleticism – which the old classical horsemen considered as “comfort and ease”.

Building directly on Classes 101–106, Class 107 breaks down the nine criteria of throughness step by step. You will learn to recognize the advancing hindquarters, feel the horses find their backs and start to use them. Then three-dimensional contact that runs through the skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems of horse and rider will become intuitive, natural, and permanent. Demonstrations, quizzes, and assignments provide opportunities for both sensory experience and visual proof from the first stride.

Grounded in the classical tradition of fundamental institutions of riding, especially Saumur, Warendorf, and Vienna, this is not generic riding advice but a codified training system tested with proving exercises from Major Anders Lindgren and Colonel Alois Podhajsky.

Class 107 is a threshold. Riders move from practicing correct basics into achieving true throughness — the conductive, clear transmission that defines classical horsemanship. Once felt, it cannot be forgotten, and it changes how you ride permanently.

Expect rigor. This course assumes serious study and practice. If you have completed Classes 101–106 and are ready to stop guessing and start riding with clarity, precision, and uphill balance, Class 107 will take you forward through the back — and into true contact.