Strength Training a Horse in the Pillars

Have you ever seen horses in pillars on old pictures? This variant of training horses, which has fallen into the background, is hardly practiced today. I also believe that it was not practiced in a very horse-friendly way at all times. Old writings and pictures at least suggest that. However, due to my great interest in the history of riding, I have always been interested in pilar work, and so I built beautiful pillars for myself more than 15 years ago and work with them again and again.
I see training in the pillars almost exclusively as strength training for a horse's collection, especially through the piaffe - perhaps also for the levade. However, for some horses this method is also not suitable. In my experience, the best and easiest way to practice with most horses is in hand along a kick-wall.
However, with my horse Goahead, I find it easiest in the pilars to motivate him to put in so much effort. We started this work exactly two years ago. So he is already quite advanced, which is why we are already practicing rudiments of a levade. So 1 or 2 times a week the variation in training consists of working in the pillars for a maximum of 15 minutes each time - breaks included.
If you are interested in this topic, I invite you to watch me during a training session. I lunged Goahead a little bit beforehand to warm up. I filmed the actual training session in the pilars for 13 minutes straight. Except for an occasional swap of perspective, this workout is completely uncut. So you get the best possible insight.
I wonder if the old ones did it the same way. Who really knows. - Times and their values have always been subject to enormous change. So let's not judge.
Let's rather try to work with our horses in a contemporary way in the sense of a balanced psyche and healthy athletics. You can find so much good spirit in the historical books. Let's try to understand what they might have meant in the past.
Here now my interpretation, how the work with the pillars could have been meant...
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