Dressage Movements
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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 ... -
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 ... -
How to Ride Flying Changes
Flying changes are often seen as the highlight of an advanced dressage test and are something every dressage rider wants to master! When the ... -
How to Ride Turn Around the Forehand
Why do we teach horses to perform turn around the forehand? It is usually taught as the first ‘sideways’ movement, as it’s a simple ... -
How to Half-Pass
Half-pass is a forward/sideways movement. Remember the order of those words – it is crucial to maintaining them in that order while you teach ... -
How to Ride a Change of Lead Through Trot
A change of lead through trot is a way of changing the canter lead. In essence, it’s canter-trot-canter. The difference between a ‘simple change’ ... -
How to Ride Haunches-In (Travers)
Haunches-in is more usually referred to as ‘travers’. This movement can also be used in schooling as a preparatory movement when teaching the horse ... -
How to Ride a Serpentine
Serpentines are useful schooling exercises that also appear in British Dressage tests from Novice level upwards, so it’s important that you know how to ... -
How to Ride a Good Center Line
There are two center lines in every dressage test that you ride, and some tests have more than that. Every center line is worth ...
