Dressage Movements
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 Collected Trot
In the lower level tests, you will ride in working trot, showing a few steps of lengthened trot strides and some medium trot. The ...How to Ride Extended Walk
The extended walk is an exercise that appears in dressage tests from British Dressage Medium level upward. In some dressage tests, the mark for ...How to Ride Extended Canter
Extended canter is a movement that appears in dressage tests at Medium level (UK) and Third level (US) and above. However, even if you’re ...How to Ride Extended Trot
One of the most spectacular and impressive movements in dressage is the extended trot. If you’re lucky, your horse will offer to lengthen his ...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 Collected Walk
Collected walk first appears in dressage tests at Medium level in the UK, at Third level in the US and continues right through to ...
