In the walk break Daniel offers great tips on what to do if the horse becomes tense. They return to the flying changes and Daniel helps her with her leg position when asking for the change. The next exercise is to do haunches in on the circle at the canter as an introduction to pirouettes. We get a great opportunity to see how to pick up the reins after a free walk and how important it is to maintain the rhythm in that transition. They alternate between a shoulder in and haunches in on the circle and talk about collecting him while keeping the engine behind. They do a beautiful haunches in on the circle and give him a stretchy break.
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Collection at the PSG level with Dani...
Dani asks them for passage steps from the trot. When they move to the canter, they show an excellent example of collection. For the cool down they open the neck at the trot and ask him to stretch forward while using half halts to keep him from running when he is given the reins.
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Clearly on the Aids PSG
Steffen Peters teaches a session with a Friesian cross 15 year old mare schooling PSG. The rider expresses concern with the mare losing activity and jump and a lack of responsiveness to the aids for the change due to the quality of the canter. Steffen points out that it is really an issue of h...
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Clearly on the Aids PSG 2
They reverse direction and continue with the walk pirouette. Steffen asks to ride the horse ( Steffen removes his microphone before he gets on. The rider wears it later as she watches him ride.) He begins by repeating the same exercise at the walk, using his leg for a short push rather than a ki...
