Chrissa rides Mireill, a 13-year-old Danish Warmblood mare in this video. They are currently competing at Intermediate II, and Chrissa is working with Mireill to get her to go to the bridle with her back up. As they warm up she invites the mare to stretch and loosen in the topline, asking for her neck to push out. She asks for this in the leg yield and half pass at the canter, as well as counter canter and single changes.
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Forward is the Way to Think 1
As Laura begins to work with this pair in the walk, she has the rider determine whether the horse is giving the rider the feel in the rein that they want. They post the trot to warm up, and make sure that they use the aids only as needed. They decide to do Category/Movement/Lateral|, and also d...
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Forward is the Way to Think, Part One
As Laura begins to work with this pair in the walk, she has the rider determine whether the horse is giving the rider the feel in the rein that they want. They post the trot to warm up, and make sure that they use the aids only as needed. They decide to do Category/Movement/Lateral|, and also do ...
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Focus on the Contact by Chrissa Hoffm...
Chrissa presents Scrabble in his third video on DTO. We last saw him a year ago in the video Acceptance of the Bit, Advanced Trng, and before that in 2012 in a video called 3/24/12, Warming Up, Lateral Exercises& Canter Exercises for the Young Horse. Chrissa is taking a year off of showing him ...