Tag: Dressage Training

https://youtu.be/glBjZXi5nBc Filmed during the 2007 Succeed/USDF FEI-Level Trainers Conference, listen to Jan Brink talk about spookiness and tension in the horse.

By Bethany Larsen I start by talking sweetly as I amble up to her in the pasture. She pricks her ears forward in response to my...

https://youtu.be/xeNWw4X1FN4 Ingrid Klimke discusses using cavaletti work to build the hind end of a horse, encouraging them to step under their center of gravity, thus...

By Sally O'Dwyer We have the new 2019 US Dressage Tests to learn. Daunting, right?  When I enter the show ring, I fear I will be possessed by...

https://youtu.be/iEEyNRHylB0 Building on last week's Tip Tuesday, Stephen Clarke discusses how many riders often shift their weight to the outside during the half-pass, which is...

By Walter Zettl Translated by Lynne Sprinsky Echols The German-born dressage master Walter Zettl wrote this essay shortly before his death in June 2018. The USDF thanks Herr Zettl’s widow,...

USDF wants to hear from you! As you’ve advanced through your dressage training, has there been a seemingly simple movement or sequence that you...

https://youtu.be/yHrMgi0bo68 Stephen Clarke describes the ideal rein contact with the horse as being a forward feeling contact, rather than a backwards holding contact. This excerpt was...