Dressage Movements
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How to Ride a Good Upwards Transition
What’s the movement that is demanded more than any other in dressage tests at every level? Circles? Although that’s what many riders assume. It’s ... -
How to Ride a 15-Meter Circle
Dressage tests from British Dressage (BD) Preliminary level upward contain certain exercises that require you to ride a 15-meter circle. That sounds pretty straightforward, ... -
How to Ride Shoulder-Fore
If you’re new to the world of dressage, you may have heard the terms shoulder-fore and shoulder-in mentioned both in terms of schooling your ... -
How to Introduce Lateral Work (And in What Order)
Lateral work is an essential part of your daily schooling sessions, as well as being included in the more advanced level dressage tests. If ... -
How to Teach Your Horse to Lengthen
Once you reach novice level in dressage, you will be asked to show that you can lengthen your horse’s stride in the walk, trot, ... -
How to Ride a Good Canter-Trot Transition
Transitions are required in every dressage test throughout the levels and are something that you should be using daily in your horse’s schooling sessions. ... -
How to Ride Haunches-Out (Renvers)
Haunches-out is more usually referred to as ‘renvers’. Unlike leg-yield, shoulder-in, travers, and half-pass, renvers is a lateral exercise that you won’t find in ... -
How to Train Canter Pirouettes
Canter pirouettes are one of the advanced dressage movements that many riders at the lower levels aspire to ride one day. So, how do ... -
How to Prepare Your Horse for Transitions
Transitions are included in every dressage test right up to Grand Prix. You should also use transitions during all your everyday schooling sessions, as ... -
How to Ride a Good Canter-Walk Transition
As you progress through the dressage levels, you’ll encounter the canter to walk transition. Canter to walk is used when riding simple changes as ...
