Dressage Movements
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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 ... -
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 can be a spectacular movement when ridden correctly on a well-schooled horse. This article explains what makes a good half-pass, what the judge ... -
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’ ...
