This rider mostly wants to work on one Tempi's and Piaffe and Passage. Adelinde talks about how even at the Grand Prix level you have to check every day to see if you can get the bend and control of the legs before you can ask for any movements. As they begin to work on things, she has the rider sit back a little more to allow the horse to come up in front and to sit on his hind end.
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