Trot work is saved for the end of the ride. Steffen Peters and the clinic rider try schooling some passage, half-pass and half-steps that are in front of the leg. If the pony starts to lag in the tempo or cadence, Steffen suggests freshening the trot with a few steps of rising trot or even canter...

Laura shows a variety of ways to create piaffe. She first demonstrates and explains how rein back can turn into piaffe, and then she shows it developing from walk. She shows how to teach that piaffe is fun for both horse and rider and not stressful by explaining and demonstrating the aids.

Laura suggests building the passage from the trot rather than the walk. She wants the horse to get a big, bouncy trot before asking him to come back. She advises passaging to the hand rather than bringing the horse back to passage. Similarly, she wants the half-steps to come back from a bouncy, f...

They start working in passage. Laura suggests moving him slightly laterally in the passage so the horse loosens up throughout his entire body. When transitioning from passage to piaffe, the horse tends to get tight and lose the tempo behind. She feels the tempo is most important and, with this pa...

At the end of the ride, they return to the piaffe and passage. Laura continues to stress suppling the horse while in passage but trying to make him sharper with the whip. When the horse loses his right hind leg, Laura suggests moving him slightly off the rider right leg to move that right hind un...

Janet works with both on transitions from piaffe to passage.

Focus on basics, changes and piaffe and passage with Martin Schaudt

Juan Manuel Muńoz Diaz introduces the two horses that will be used in this session, starting with a 6 year old who is just beginning piaffe. He introduces the whip and rewards the horse for trying and keeping calm. Juan touches with the whip to ask the horse to lift his leg higher in the walk, wh...

Focus on basics, changes and piaffe and passage with Martin Schaudt

Working on a giving hand and Piaffe Passage with Colonel Christian Carde

Working on a giving hand and Piaffe Passage with Colonel Christian Carde

Vitor Silva brings us this video of piaffe and passage from the saddle. He assists from the ground, beginning with a horse who has begun this work already. He covers how the rider should ride the piaffe and passage, keeping the horse in front of the leg. He warns against getting the steps too far...

Vitor Silva brings us this video of piaffe and passage from the saddle. He assists from the ground, beginning with a horse who has begun this work already. He covers how the rider should ride the piaffe and passage, keeping the horse in front of the leg. He warns against getting the steps too far...

Vitor Silva brings us this video of piaffe and passage from the saddle. He assists from the ground, beginning with a horse who has begun this work already. He covers how the rider should ride the piaffe and passage, keeping the horse in front of the leg. He warns against getting the steps too far...

Hilda shows you on three horses with different riders and at different levels how she trains this upper level movement. She shows you how she develops a dwell in the front legs to assist in passage and how to correct a horse that sits too much behind. She teaches both movements from the walk and ...

Ernst Hoyos works with Lisa Wilcox on Gallant Reflection HU (Reef) on the Piaffe and Passage.

Canter pirouettes are worked on and getting proper bend and flexion are stressed so that the horse can carry out the proper mechanics of the pirouette. They begin work on tempi changes. Finally they move into piaffe work. Martin says to really think... small steps. He goes from walk to piaffe and...

Canter pirouettes are worked on and getting proper bend and flexion are stressed so that the horse can carry out the proper mechanics of the pirouette. They begin work on tempi changes. Finally they move into piaffe work. Martin says to really think... small steps. He goes from walk to piaffe and...

Daniel Dockx teaches a lesson with a PSG PRE, showing us a normal day of work and their schooling of the piaffe and passage on the way to Grand Prix. They begin by stretching him down with an open neck, and Daniel encourages her to stretch him forward when he curls.  In the trot they work on tran...

Daniel Dockx teaches a lesson with a PSG PRE, showing us a normal day of work and their schooling of the piaffe and passage on the way to Grand Prix. They begin by stretching him down with an open neck, and Daniel encourages her to stretch him forward when he curls.  In the trot they work on tran...

Train gait quality and working on developing the piaffe and passage with Courtney King-Dye.

Train gait quality and working on developing the piaffe and passage with Courtney King-Dye

Train gait quality and working on developing the piaffe and passage with Courtney King-Dye