Jan Bemelmans starts this session with the rider stretching his horse forward and down, alternating between the trot and canter. He has them work in the collected trot, stressing that it needs to be calm. There is some difficulty with getting passage instead of collected trot, and they work in the shoulder in while trying to keep the rhythm. They add in small circles as they go around the arena, and then the half pass. Jan offers him interesting advice on the position of the neck when he asks for the half pass and keeps getting a canter depart.
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Jan Bemelmans - Rhythm in Passage, Pa...
They reverse direction and work on the shoulder in to traverse, adding a small circle when needed. This exuberant horse offers more in the half pass than is desired, and Jan emphasizes that they must be gentle with him. They now add some passage steps, then go back to the half pass, using the hal...
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Jan Bemelmans - Rhythm in Passage, Pa...
Jan discusses with the rider that they have to deal with the anticipation of the horse for piaffe when they do passage. After some trot work they do passage down centerline, concentrating on keeping the rhythm. They alternate with half pass from the corner, making sure to start with the shoulders...
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Jan Bemelmans - Rhythm in Passage, Pa...
After a short break they return to the shoulder in at the trot, this time more calmly. The half pass becomes more relaxed, and in the passage they continue to work on the rhythm. On the circle around Jan the passage shows better rhythm and they find a few moments where they can do a few steps of ...
