2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

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2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

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2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink
To receive USDF University education credits, watch all the videos in this collection and complete the quiz linked below. Education credits will be awarded to all current USDF members upon quiz completion. Please allow up to 1-2 weeks for processi...

2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan BrinkTo receive USDF University education credits, watch all the videos in this collection and complete the quiz linked below. Education credits will be awarded to all current USDF members upon quiz completion. Please allow up to 1-2 weeks for processing...

2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

To receive USDF University education credits, watch all the videos in this collection and complete the quiz linked below. Education credits will be awarded to all current USDF members upon quiz completion. Please allow up to 1-2 weeks for proces...

Daniel Dockx rides the eight year old Manchengo in this next video who is just starting Prix St. Georges and piaffe and passage. They start with a stretch in the trot while maintaining the same rhythm, and ask for shoulder in and canter while in the same frame. He also does transitions within th...

After checking his forward and back, Daniel talks about what issues they have had with the half pass and how he uses the leg yield to help. The leg yields are successful and he moves on to shoulder in.  When this leads to the half pass, Daniel makes sure his steps stay even and he doesn't lose th...

Daniel explains why he uses the trot piaffe trot in the training of the piaffe and passage.  Manchengo performs several of these transitions with relaxation in both directions, and Daniel follows with some passage.  He rewards him for his hard work with another stretch.  The extended trot is next.

Daniel describes how he handles a horse that gets tense when he starts to collect them.  He checks his transitions within the gait in the canter in both directions before working on the half pirouettes.  They do quarter pirouettes on a square, preparing him and keeping him relaxed.  After a stret...

They continue in the canter and work on the canter half pass.  Gary explains how they need to have more quick, collecting steps, and the half pass improves as they keep the bend through the corner, bringing it onto the diagonal. He points out that its the girth that has to move sideways in the mo...

Gary gives suggestions for her leg and hand position during a walk break, and when they start up in the walk again he asks for deeper corners and a little quicker tempo than she offers.  He emphasizes riding straight, then getting bend before turning in the corners or on a circle.  In the sitting...

A young rider asks how to best free the shoulder in the half pass.

Laurens now goes to the piaffe and passage Ulysees has struggled with the piaffe and it is still in development He begins by making sure he is quick off his leg aids and is light in the front He makes sure he finds the rhythm that is comfortable for the horse and works on the basics when he becom...