Tag: Dressage Training

Everyone knows that the best way to get a very good score on a movement is to perform that movement very well. But, as we all well know, and have experienced, sometimes that doesn’t work out. However, some simple things you can do to impress the judges that will help you earn that extra half point, even on a movement that isn’t quite right. By Ashley Simmons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOOgA46rInk Watch as Lars Petersen explains riding to the bit in the leg yield. Excerpt from the 2020 Adequan®/USDF FEI-Level Trainers Conference.

https://youtu.be/CUadMZ-to_M Janet Foy discusses the benefit of cavalletti in the training of the dressage horse in this edited footage from the 2020 Adequan®/USDF Virtual Convention. International...

https://youtu.be/RSJLF5vfMEo Watch Janet Foy discuss the early training of the young dressage horse in this excerpt from her lecture Training Issues of the Not-So-Perfect Dressage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o068zOeq9U A quick reaction to your aids is very important in training. Lilo offers some advice on the topic at a USDF Adult Clinic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0PHpXy2JK8 Presenters Scott Hassler and Ingo Pape give instruction on how to improve lateral flexion by properly riding a square. This video is an excerpt from...

https://vimeo.com/255411148 In this extended footage of the 2015 USDF Sport Horse Prospect Development Forum, Willy Arts uses a five-year-old to demonstrate and discuss the benefits...

Based on USDF’s On the Levels videos. Part 6: Fourth Level. Story and Photographs by Beth Baumert Reprinted from the September/October 2020 issue of USDF Connection...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBh1iW32OhY&feature=emb_title In this excerpt from the 1993 USDF National Symposium featuring Lilo Fore and Michael Poulin, they work with Juan Ledgard on the rhythm, cadence,...

https://vimeo.com/255413325 In this extended footage of the 2015 USDF Sport Horse Prospect Development Forum, Scott Hassler works with Regina Milliken and four-year-old Danish Warmblood mare,...