Dressage Solutions: Understand the Feeling of Suspension

Try this tip from Janna Dyer.

To understand the feeling of suspension…

Imagine that you are going over a peak on a roller coaster. Though you are still in your seat, you have a feeling of lifting upward as if gravity has momentarily changed.

(Illustration by Sandy Rabinowitz)

Janna Dyer is a USDF gold medalist who has studied with Georg Heyser, Jessica Ransehousen and Robert Dover. The former recipient of a USET/Asmis grant to study with Dr. Reiner Klimke, she now trains and competes out of her own Dark Horse Stables in Rocky Ridge, Maryland (darkhorsestables.com). 

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