Transitions
Dressage Schooling Notebook: Transitions with Cindy Ishoy
Strengthen and supple your horse with a series of upward and downward transitions.
How to Ride the Half Halt with Jan Ebeling
The half halt is a combination of forward aids and restricting aids that will put your horse in balance and on the bit.
Dressage Solutions: Create Soft Downward Transitions
Try this tip from Kathy Connelly.
Use Transitions to Develop Your Dressage Horse's Throughness: A Four-Step Exercise
Ride through these four steps from Beth Baumert to improve your horse's throughness.
3 Exercises to Improve Transitions Into and Out of Canter Lengthenings
Joy Congdon explains how to maintain control over a horse who likes to run in canter lengthenings.
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.
24 Dressage Training Tips from Kyra Kyrklund
Five-time Olympian Kyra Kyrklund shares her dressage training secrets at a Kentucky symposium.
Success Through Precise Riding with Lehua Custer
Let precision get you to Third Level and beyond
Sharpen Your Attention to Detail in Dressage Training
Reese Koffler-Stanfield explains why correct dressage training is all about the details.
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.
Sharon McCusker's Favorite Dressage Training Exercise: Canter Transitions
These transitions, when done properly, keep the dressage horse forward, loose and working through his body.
Suppleness: Kathleen Raine's Key to Success in Dressage
How to achieve this must-have component of your horse’s dressage training
The Role of Showmanship in Dressage Tests
Margaret Freeman explains the art of presenting your horse in the best light to the judge.
Karen Pavicic: How Stretching Can Benefit Your Horse
A Canadian team rider explains how to develop the horse’s back to create qualities needed for dressage horses at every level.
A U.S. Clinic with Dressage Legend Carl Hester
Get an inside look at this British dressage great's first clinic in America.
A Long Neck Equals a More Rideable Horse
Successful riding at the upper levels of dressage begins with teaching your horse to come through his back with a long neck and go to the hand.
Tips to Improve Trot Lengthening Transitions
Cindy Sydnor critiques this rider and 9-year-old mare.
Develop Your Dressage Horse's Swinging Back with Helen Langehanenberg
One of Germany’s best riders explains the importance of a supple, submissive horse.
Hilda Gurney: First Level Movements with Young Horses
Learn how to begin schooling First Level movements with a 4-year-old.
How to Calm a Nervous Horse Using Lateral Movements
Stacey Hastings answers a reader question.
9 Tips to Ride a Winning Dressage Test
Top dressage judges Lilo Fore, Anne Gribbons and Hilda Gurney weigh in.