Dressage Tips

Are you struggling to develop a beautiful and lofty medium trot or trot lengthening? As you move up the levels, you must develop different “gears” in your horse’s trot to where you have a “lengthening”…
Have you fallen off recently?  ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Here’s a roadmap for rebuilding confidence.  ⁠⁠⁠⁠If you’re like me then you’ll probably agree that riding horses is just about the most amazing feeling in the world,…
Do you have a mental checklist for before you start your ride? Or are you a ride by the seat of your pants person!? Implementing a quick routine at the start of your ride…
Learning the posting trot is something we do pretty early in our riding careers and once we’ve mastered that rhythmic rise and fall with the beat of the trot, it’s like riding a bike,…
People always talk about the “rocking horse motion” of the canter, and how wonderful it is, but when you’re having difficulty mastering the motion of sitting the canter, the canter can feel less like…
Do you ever get sick of riding circles? Dressage is just getting on our horses and doing smaller and smaller circles until eventually we’re almost rotating on the spot (oh wait, that’s a pirouette!)…
Gripping with the legs at the canter is a very common mistake and it makes it impossible for the rider to be effective and for the horse to move correctly! It’s tempting to grip…
Today’s video is for all the new partnerships out there! And for anyone who feels a little nervous about cantering! In this video I help a student at a clinic to get her cantering…
Pre-requisites for half-passes: Shoulder-in 10 meter circle Haunches-in You must be able to ride these 3 movements before attempting to ride a half-pass, and whenever you are having trouble with a half-pass, go back…
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