Pirouette
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Instruction
The Magic Square
Improve your accuracy, collection and connection with this straightforward, but exacting exercise.
Instruction
Dressage Schooling Notebook: Transitions with Cindy Ishoy
Strengthen and supple your horse with a series of upward and downward transitions.
Instruction
2 Exercises to Improve the Pirouette Canter
Martin Kuhn gives advice to help you correct rhythm faults in the canter and encourage your horse to jump through the canter pirouette better.
Dressage Today Extra
Prep for Pirouettes and Learn About Equine Strength and Fitness Basics
Shannon Dueck shares her strategy to develop ultra collection PLUS a veterinarian’s perspective on maximizing your horse’s musculature.
Theory
Dressage Solutions: Develop Outside Control and Power in the Canter Pirouette
Try this tip from Lisa Wilcox.
Longines FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final
24 Dressage Training Tips from Kyra Kyrklund
Five-time Olympian Kyra Kyrklund shares her dressage training secrets at a Kentucky symposium.
Theory
What is Doma Vaquera?
Manuel Trigo explains this Spanish term, which can be loosely translated as a Spanish version of Western dressage.
Blog
Don’t Settle for the “Safe” Dressage Scores
Blogger and judge Margaret Freeman explains why higher scores are often worth the risk.
Instruction
Suppleness: Kathleen Raine’s Key to Success in Dressage
How to achieve this must-have component of your horse’s dressage training
Theory
Dressage Solutions: Improve Your Pirouettes
Try this tip from Carl Hester.