Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

Janet Foy, Intermediare II/Grand Prix/S Test riding and improvement

Janet Foy, Intermediare II/Grand Prix/S Test riding and improvement

Janet Foy, Intermediare II/Grand Prix/S Test riding and improvement

Janet Foy, Intermediare II/Grand Prix/S Test riding and improvement

Janet Foy, Intermediare II/Grand Prix/S Test riding and improvement

Janet Foy, Intermediare II/Grand Prix/S Test riding and improvement

Lisa Wilcox begins the clinic with a beautiful palomino showing tension in a new environment. She rides and demonstrates how to create a better connection through slow, consistent and patient work.

Test Scoring and schooling movements Day 2 with Axel Steiner

Test Scoring and schooling movements Day 2 with Axel Steiner

Part Three continues with the threes and twos with an emphasis on keeping them calm and flowing. They come back and do excellent trot half passes and then canter half passes. They finish with some quiet changes across the diagonal as a great example of riding through the horse becoming excited ...

Part Three continues with the threes and twos with an emphasis on keeping them calm and flowing. They come back and do excellent trot half passes and then canter half passes. They finish with some quiet changes across the diagonal as a great example of riding through the horse becoming excited ...

Part Three continues with the threes and twos with an emphasis on keeping them calm and flowing. They come back and do excellent trot half passes and then canter half passes. They finish with some quiet changes across the diagonal as a great example of riding through the horse becoming excited ...

Self carriage and responsivness to the aids with Edward Gal

Self carriage and responsivness to the aids with Edward Gal

Continuing in the canter, Chrissa has the rider do transitions within the gait while keeping the rhythm. She points out that the extended canter should always be available . When they ride the single change Chrissa helps the rider find the right aids to make them clean and where they are intend...

They reverse direction and continue with the canter to the right.  Courtney asks her to stay off the track so she can leg yield out to keep the jump.  They go to the canter half pass, and Courtney emphasizes that the quality of the canter is more important than the movement.  she has the rider fi...

PVDA Sponsored 2011 tests clinic, I2, S Level

PVDA Sponsored 2011 tests and teaching clinic, I1,S Level

DTO welcome Laurens van Lieren to the website with this upper level horse being ridden by a competitor in Young Riders.  They begin the session by looking for relaxation and then add transitions to add engagement from behind. When Laurens asks for collection he specifies that the horse must be wo...