Shoulder-in

After learning the basic tenets of shoulder-in, see how this movement progresses as you advance up the levels.

Grand Prix trainers and competitors Todd Flettrich and Ruth Hogan-Poulsen discuss and demonstrate riding the shoulder-in.

Sabine Ense explains what straightness means and how you can achieve it. Only a horse who is supple can be straight.

USDF gold medalist Dennis Callin explains how to keep an elastic feel on the outside rein.

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

A discussion of this indispensable element in daily dressage training

Learn how to ride this helpful movement and understand its purpose and benefits.

Dressage Today blogger Jenna Arnold shares some advice on how to focus on the root of your training challenges, rather than the symptom. Plus, try her exercise of the month that hones in on square turns.

Inside the 2019 New England Dressage Association Symposium

U.S. dressage Olympian Ali Brock explains the terms with a focus on rhythm.

Part 2: Olympian Sue Blinks shows how her multifaceted approach works in teaching movements like shoulder-in and piaffe.

Inside a session from the Old Master Series

Blogger Pam Stone's time training Party Girl, an Arabian-Holsteiner mare concludes.

Blogger Pam Stone shares an update on the latest addition to her barn: a 14.1-hand Arabian.

Author and dressage trainer Dominique Barbier offers advice on how to be more focused when working with your dressage horse.

This USEF “S” judge offers her view on what she wants to see from dressage riders and their horses.

It’s a movement any horse with proper training can do well.

Improve your horse’s straightness and contact with this dressage training exercise from Gerhard Politz.

Five-time Olympian Kyra Kyrklund shares her dressage training secrets at a Kentucky symposium.

Manuel Trigo explains this Spanish term, which can be loosely translated as a Spanish version of Western dressage.

Katherine Bateson-Chandler explains how it is the job of the rider to make the horse as even on both sides as possible, therefore improving his straightness.

Kathy Priest explains how the half pass can be broken up into two easier exercises and then put back together.

These exercises prepare your horse to move up.

How elasticity and suppleness allow your horse to do his job well