Dressage Schooling Notebook: Transitions with Cindy Ishoy
Strengthen and supple your horse with a series of upward and downward transitions.
Downward Transitions
Christoph Hess: The Importance of the Stretch
Learn to correct a tight neck by riding your horse forward and downward to the hand.
9 Techniques to Improve the Halt, Part 2
FEI trainer Volker Brommann explains how to develop the halt through the training levels and gives tips on how to improve this movement and correct common problems.
Four Stages to Halt
FEI trainer Volker Brommann explains how good halts develop from a foundation of trust, understanding and patience.
The Importance of Correct Timing of the Dressage Aids
A dressage rider learns the importance of her aids when she first learns to post on the correct diagnonal.
Tips to Let Go and Find Suppleness in Your Body
Biomechanics Expert Susanne von Dietze critiques Vanessa Meeks at Second Level
Engage Your Core to Ride with More Forward Hands
Biomechanics expert Susanne von Dietze critiques Erica Longenbach at Training Level.
Tips to Improve Trot Lengthening Transitions
Cindy Sydnor critiques this rider and 9-year-old mare.
Connect Your Horse in Shoulder-Fore
How to use upward and downward transitions with half-halts in shoulder-fore.
Leg Yield for Relaxed Transitions
Catherine Chamberlain shows you how to improve your horse with these exercises.
Laura Graves: Tools for More Successful Connection
America’s dressage sensation gives advice on developing the perfect partnership.