Balance
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Lifestyle
Juggling Dressage, Work and Family : Advice for the Multitasking Dressage Rider
A few tips to help busy dressage riders find balance
Instruction
Connect with Your Horse’s Rhythm
Try these unmounted exercises to help find balance and mobilize your hips.
Theory
Dressage Solutions: Maintain Balance in Canter Pirouettes
Try this tip from Adelinde Cornelissen.
Theory
Dressage Solutions: To Maintain Your Balance
Try this tip from Laura Tomlinson.
Theory
Dressage Solutions: Find Correct Balance
Try this tip from Heather Blitz.
Instruction
Refine Horse and Rider Balance to Correctly Channel Energy
Equestrian biomechanics expert Susanne von Dietze critiques a Second-Level combination and suggests exercises to improve balance and prevent leaning.
Instruction
What Is the Proper Way to Create Bend in My Dressage Horse?
USDF gold medalist Rita Brown explains the definition of bend and offers advice on riding it correctly.
FEI
How to Maintain Correct Bend in the Half Pass
Madeleine Austin explains the "ingredients" of a successful half pass.
Instruction
How to Regulate Your Dressage Horse’s Canter Tempo
Claudia Garner offers tips for turning a runaway canter into a controlled, cadenced movement.
Instruction
How Bend Affects Your Dressage Horse’s Straightness and Balance
International dressage competitor and trainer Felicitas von Neumann-Cosel explains this important piece of the training puzzle.