In this first video, Courtney King-Dye and Anne Gribbons discuss quicker movement vs. more loftiness for the piaffe and passage. The rider begins her session with Courtney and works on making her gelding quicker. Courtney discusses how a rider's worst enemy is freezing in the passage--putting the aids on and staying there. She stresses the importance of being able to use your aids independently.
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In Part 2, Courtney continues to work with the rider on making her aids quicker. She has her work on leg yielding so the horse can't brace against the hand but must go sideways and carry himself.
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In this video, we move on to Day 2 when Courtney works with the rider on pirouettes and offers exercises to increase the quickness behind. They also work on the half pass.
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In this last video, Courtney talks to the rider about keeping a metronome in her body to keep the horse from going slower. She explains that you want the horse to go tick-tock, tick-tock instead of ding-dong, ding-dong. They end with a well-ridden passage and piaffe.