Aids

Lisa Pierson explains the importance of learning to develop the rider’s seat as an aid that is independent and effective.

Incorporate this into your training to improve connection and straightness and help you feel the effects of having a horse truly on the outside rein, a critical component of any half halt.

A dressage rider learns the importance of her aids when she first learns to post on the correct diagnonal.

Try this tip from Courtney King-Dye

Understand what it means to have your horse "in front of the leg."

Jennifer Roth answers this reader question.

Book Excerpt: Sylvia Loch explains the aids by feel, not force.

Learn these fundamentals of a good rider and their influence over the horse