Part 3: While the horse takes a break, Doug reminds the rider that her hands are a powerful tool to help make her life easier and overcome her horse's issues. By maintaining a shorter rein but keeping her hands more forward, her aids can be more effective, and she can avoid a lot of the wiggling ...

Colleen discusses and demonstrates how she rides a half-halt with her body, which helps the horse balance back, keep his energy, but not fall on his forehand. A proper half-halt will help the horse rebalance, change the horse’s tempo or let the horse know something different is coming up.

Using the half-halts in a well-trained horse shows how the horse gathers and engages himself. Colleen also explains what happens when she doesn’t execute a half-halt as well as she should have and what she could do to improve it.

Colleen rides a younger mare that struggles more with her balance. This requires more half-halts to keep her hind legs coming up underneath herself. When the horse loses her balance, she also loses her confidence. The half-halts are important to help the horse keep her balance.

The complete halt is the culmination of the half-halts. Having the horse thinking forward even in the halt shows that the horse is in front of the leg.

Colleen demonstrates one of her favorite exercises for riding round, balanced circles. It also can show the difference between riding corners and riding curves. She explains where she places markers that help with visually showing where the rider should go to do either a square or a circle.

To start the day, the training and modified level riders warm up their horses on the flat. Clinic participants observe and make notes to come up with their instruction plans to help each individual.

Trailer for Olympian World renowned Dressage trainer and Eventing judge Sandy Phillips session on Balance Focusing on core strength and distribution of body weight Sandy guides viewers towards a balanced seat for a more effective ride

Olympian, Jane Bartle instructs a rider on how to use travers and shoulder­ in to improve the quality of her horse's gaits. Jane gives a detailed explanation of the required aides to achieve a true travers, and works with the rider to accomplish this through the exercises, with a focus on a bette...

Trailer for William Fox-Pitt's 'Have A Plan For Your Warm Up' session, featuring two stars horse and riders. Join William as he takes rider's established warm up routines and elevates them. Discussing the importance of planning and using his expert knowledge, Britain's first World No.1 Eventer cr...

William emphasizes the importance of not changing the warm up at a competition, and reminds viewers how horses thrive in routine. Focusing on stretching and achieving elastic, forward movement, he continues to impart coach. William leads riders to a more relaxed state, by guiding them to move awa...

Trailer for Britain's first World No.1 Eventer, William Fox-Pitt's 'At Least A Seven' clinic. Discussing the importance of each movement's quality, William takes riders and viewers through the process of creating consistent movements capable of scoring seven or better. With great attention to det...

EventingTrainingOnline.com trailer, highlighting the Beginner Novice Test Series which is available to members. Want to know what the top trainers in the world are working on? Eventing Training Online has it all, with video training for every level from the globe's premier clinicians.

Trailer for 2018 Beginner Novice Test A ridden, with directions and directives in real-time, right on the screen. Easily follow along and watch each movement performed in the order required. Directives displayed on screen give insight into the scoring system and allow viewers to pair this with th...

Part 1: Catherine makes her initial assessment of the nice Thoroughbred mare taking the lesson. She suggests the rider not work in sitting trot too early in the warm up, as the mare seems rigid in the topline. She begins working with the rider on relaxing his arms, reminding him that every time t...

Part 2: Catherine helps the rider address the mare coming up against the hand, by working on lifting the inside rein to create flexion and softness. She explains that the ongoing issue with the horse changing canter leads behind, actually stems from her coming up against the rein and she coaches ...

Part 3: Catherine notes the mare is stiffening her back and then becoming resistant to the aides. She coaches the rider to keep her between the hand and the leg, and to use shoulder in and shoulder fore to supple her. The rider works on carrying their hands, and avoiding old habits of losing soft...

Part 4: Catherine shares some exercises to increase elasticity and engagement at the trot. She coaches the rider to create more expression in the horses shoulder be riding from the inside leg to the outside rein, and always keeping even pressure on his reins to ensure the bit stays centered in hi...

Part 5: Catherine works with the rider to keep the mare's neck soft, and leave it quiet as they work through trot to canter transitions. He works on pressing his hand forward towards the ears to give the bit, rather than pushing towards the mouth, which allows a release without moving the mare's ...

Olympian, Jane Bartle delivers her Stretching & Keeping The Forward session. She works with the rider over fences to help her encourage her horse to stretch. Jane coaches the rider to stop grabbing at the reins and to use her finger grip to be more effective.

Part 1: Jane beings the session by highlighting the difference between allowing the horse to stretch and asking him to stretch, and the rein feel they will use to achieve this. The begin working on the free walk, using the whip to back up the leg aide, and focusing on creating a productive stretc...

Part 2: The rider beings to work over a small jump, still focusing on allowing the horse to stretch. Jane encourages her to have a relaxed finger grip, and let the reins slip when needed, without totally losing connection. They continue to work on riding forward and not grabbing at the horse's mo...

Olympic Medalist David O'Conner gives a lesson focused on straightness in flatwork. He has the riders work long and low to get their horses engaged and ensure they are in balance. Working with the riders position, David helps them to create a straighter picture overall, while increasing the quali...

International Dressage rider and Coach Catherine Haddad works with a rider and her horse who has an unstable neck. She identifies part of the issue being the horse not pushing from behind. Working with the rider to quiet her hands and keep the bit central in the horse's mouth, Catherine helps her...