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Theory

Why Good Basics Are So Important in Dressage

Gabriel Armando draws on his personal experience to explain why all dressage riders need a solid foundation of basic skills.

Instruction

Finding the Ideal Free Walk

Understand what constitutes a correct free walk and learn how you can help your horse produce a better free walk.

Lifestyle

My First Kiss: The Half Halt

A neurosurgeon finds that learning the half halt is more difficult than performing brain surgery.

Theory

Dressage Solutions: To Know If Your Half Halt Worked

Try this tip from Steffen Peters

Theory

Dressage Solutions: Forward Half Halts to Open the Throatlatch

Try this tip from Carl Hester.

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.

Instruction

Dressage Work on the Second Track

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.

Instruction

5 Steps to Shoulder-In with Michelle Gibson

An Olympic bronze medalist shares her strategy for learning and polishing this pivotal movement.

Instruction

5 Steps to Shoulder-In with Michelle Gibson

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