Downward Transitions
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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.