Janet Foy presents this wonderful session with a myriad of helpful hints for riding the new Third Level tests. She gives great strategies for what to do if you have problems with the changes during the test, and then has the demo rider ride the 3-2 test while giving commentary and scores. When they have issues she stops and works with them, starting with the trot half pass. She really helps improve the steps in the walk pirouette.
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Half pass, walk pirouette, extended c...
The rider continues with the extended walk portion of the test. They school the canter half pass, asking for more bend. Janet encourages the rider to be more forward in the extended and medium canters, and gives tips on how to keep the mare from becoming too strong. With Janet's guidance they...
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Go To Lesson: 3rd Level, Medium Lesso...
In the second of this series of Go To lessons, Catherine brings us her Medium lesson. She starts with her basic expectations in any horse she works with including that they go from seat bone to hand, go forward from the leg and be symmetrical. She uses leg yielding to work on symmetry problems ...
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Go To Lesson: 3rd Level, Medium Lesso...
Catherine works on getting the horse more relaxed in the walk. She presents a leg yield to half pass exercise with no change of position in both the trot and canter. In the canter she demonstrates how doing this exercise on a circle can help the pirouettes. Tackling the medium and extension is...
