Tag: Trot
Rein Back to Trot with Gary Rockwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rZndCaSgUY
Gary Rockwell describes the correct way to train a rein back and transition to trot in this excerpt from the 2020 Adequan®/USDF FEI-Level Trainers...
Exercise of the Day #5 – Medium Trot/Walk Pirouette
By Eliza Sydnor Romm
I learned this exercise from Conrad Schumacher. Medium trot down the long side, walk before the corner, walk pirouette in the...
Dressage Talk No. 6 with Cesar Torrente – Featuring Bernard Maurel...
International FEI Judge Cesar Torrente hosts Dressage Talk No. 6. In this episode, he chats with Bernard Maurel and Morgan Barbancon about talk about correct walk, trot, and...
The Horse’s Footfalls in All Three Gaits
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...
Quiet Square Halts
https://youtu.be/B8ZUXMiu-nA
Stephen Clarke reminds riders to ensure that they are relaxing once their horse has halted. Staying tense results in a horse that moves around...
Evaluating the Extravagant Trot
Reprinted from March 2016 USDF Connection
Have dressage horses’ gaits become so big they’re no longer correct? An FEI judge explains.
By Jayne Ayers
For decades, dressage...