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Dressage Today Podcast

Training Buzz: Training Level—Keep the Activity

Lilo Fore helps a rider create responsiveness in her horse.

Instruction

Dressage Schooling Notebook: Transitions with Cindy Ishoy

Strengthen and supple your horse with a series of upward and downward transitions.

Theory

Dressage Solutions: Create Soft Downward Transitions

Try this tip from Kathy Connelly.

Instruction

Christoph Hess: The Importance of the Stretch

Learn to correct a tight neck by riding your horse forward and downward to the hand.

Instruction

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.

Instruction

Four Stages to Halt , Part 1

FEI trainer Volker Brommann explains how good halts develop from a foundation of trust, understanding and patience.

Theory

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.

Instruction

Tips to Let Go and Find Suppleness in Your Body

Biomechanics Expert Susanne von Dietze critiques Vanessa Meeks at Second Level

Instruction

Engage Your Core to Ride with More Forward Hands

Biomechanics expert Susanne von Dietze critiques Erica Longenbach at Training Level.

Instruction

Tips to Improve Trot Lengthening Transitions

Cindy Sydnor critiques this rider and 9-year-old mare.

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