The correct use of your outside rein influences the horse’s whole body and it’s essential for good dressage riding. If ...

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How to Use Your Outside Rein

Your core muscles play a big part in your riding and training ability. Yet, for many people, the core is ...

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How to Improve Your Core for Dressage

How do you ride a downward transition? How do you develop engagement? How do you collect your horse? How do ...

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How to Stop Pulling on the Reins

“Contact” is the third essential component of good dressage riding on the Scales of Training. The ability to maintain an ...

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How to Keep Your Hands Still

In dressage tests, being able to strike off onto the correct canter lead at the designated marker is a basic ...

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How to Time Your Canter Aids

Anyone who rides horses will have heard their instructor encouraging them to “use your legs!” Your leg extends from your ...

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How to Use Your Legs

One of the first skills that you learn as a rider is how to ride in rising trot.  Rising to ...

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How to Do Rising Trot

‘Feel’ is a crucial element of the dressage rider’s development and is something that the world’s greatest riders possess in ...

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How to Develop Feel

All dressage riders, even the best in the world, have had moments when they felt so in awe of another ...

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How To Master Dressage by Embracing Your Mistakes

To be successful in dressage, your horse must be supple longitudinally and laterally. But both the horse and rider must ...

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How to Improve Mental Suppleness in Both Horse & Rider