German Olympian and World Champion event rider Ingrid Klimke explains how to first introduce the horse to the cavalletti. She demonstrates how to walk and trot over polls and how to use your position. Placement between poles should be approximately 1.20m or 5-feet apart approximately.

Steffen starts this session by riding the horse. He focuses first on the horse's reaction to the leg and then takes up the contact. He spends plenty of time working in the walk to allow the horse to relax. Then he works on the same ideas in the trot until the horse is comfortable there, too.

On Day 2, Bonnie Canter returns to work with Olympian, Sabine Schut-Kery, focusing on elements of Intermediaire I. Sabine encourages Bonnie to concentrate on tempo and maintain it. Vitali needs to grow stronger in his hind legs to carry more advanced elements in the higher levels of dressage. Bon...

Five-star eventer Sharon White coaches two riders on young horses as they warm up over cavalletti. She uses cavalletti at the walk and trot to help the horses bring up their backs, loosen their toplines and create roundness. They go over the cavalletti at the canter to conclude the warm-up.

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Tanya Rennie and Faldo work with Olympian Sabine Schut-Kery. By finding the horse through the leg aids and using shoulder-fore, Tanya can play with the energy and get Faldo to be less flat. In the half steps, Sabine notes Faldo needs to be more attentive. By sitting up, supporting him and using t...

The German Riding Pony returns for the second clinic day, and Steffen Peters and the rider continue to build on the first day’s work. In the warm-up, Steffen wants the rider to correctly set up the pony, but then the pony needs to carry himself and maintain what is being asked of him. They mainly...

Steffen Peters and the rider work on schooling piaffe. Steffen explains the rider needs to use her legs to correct the piaffe, not maintain the piaffe. He also wants to think about this work playfully. They might do some different movements in between and then test a little piaffe to see if it is...

U.S. Olympian Allison Brock has this pair work through resistance problems to help the mare work more though her body with swing.

Steffen Peters and the clinic rider continue working on the mare's half halts as well as forward and back in all gaits. The horse needs strong seat support coming back with a holding leg aid – not a pushing forward leg aid. The goal is to slowly increase the time lengthening without having her ru...

Steffen Peters coaches a Training/First Level rider as she works on keeping consistent contact with her young horse. Steffen encourages intentional riding to get the desired response to the rider’s aids from the horse. The pair works on transitions and collecting the canter on day one of the clin...

Olympic medalist Sven Rothenberger continues his work with Endel Ots and the Dutch gelding Lion King. Praising the horse and offering a short moment of relaxation helps avoid tension. Sven wants Endel to make clear transitions between medium and collected gaits. It's important to warm Lion King u...

Steffen’s overall goal for a horse is that he is supple enough to yield forwards and sideways to each leg and each rein. The horse needs to relax and understand why the bit is there, and the rider always has to check in to see how the horse feels on each rein. That suppleness should then be match...

Laura demonstrates and explains what it feels like as she warms up her upper-level horse in the walk. The focus still needs to be on the horse engaging the back and hindquarters. She also shows examples of how the horse goes when he is not ridden as correctly. She does a good deal of lateral work...

Sabine Schut-Kery works with accomplished medalist and freestyle rider Marjolein Geven and her horse Sir Frederico. Marjolein must be proactive and conscious of her aids to ensure she's not supporting Sir Frederico too much. The horse needs to push, come into the contact and not suck back. Combin...

Steffen Peters talks about tempi changes. He suggests getting the two tempis extremely reliable before starting with the one tempis. It is also important to always keep the quality of the canter in mind. Since this horse gets tight in the changes, he suggests allowing the horse to stretch down in...

Tanya Rennie and Faldo return to continue riding with Sabine Schut-Kery. At the canter and in pirouettes, Tanya uses a little more inner leg to control the shoulder and keep Faldo's inside leg under his body. She works to keep the horse under her but forward—more jumping through in the flying cha...

Olympic medalist Sven Rothenberger coaches Molly O'Brien and impeccable stallion Fortunato H2O. Sven focuses on the overall impression. Molly must keep Fortunato engaged, active, and out from behind the vertical. Hind legs drive from behind, pushing the front legs forward. With more activity, For...

Steffen works the horse in canter. He feels that the horse gets confused with the leg aids in canter, so he does exercises to help the horse understand what he wants. Steffen continues working on getting the horse to relax and use his topline going both directions.

Steffen emphasizes that a rider should not have to constantly ride with a strong contact and leg. While it is easy for the rider to carry the horse, it is okay if the horse makes a mistake and breaks gait. If that happens, the rider can fix it. When you ask for the horse to go forward or move lat...

Molly O'Brien and Fortunato H2O return to work with Olympic medalist Sven Rothenberger. Sven explains that Fortunato has star quality but they need to revisit basics—contact, seat and leg position, and balance. Working on letting the horse be longer, Sven coaches Molly on straightness and contact...

Lena Wedenmark covers the biomechanics of the walk, an extremely important gait. It consists of four-beats with each leg moving independently, and there is no moment of suspension. She discusses some of the issues she sees in the walk and gives tips on how to improve the gait.

Grand Prix competitor AnnA Buffini demonstrates riding a square on a 4-year-old mare. With a young, or lower-level horse, the focus of the exercise is on straight lines and bending through the turns, which helps teach the horse how to balance back, how to turn and how to go forward off both legs....

Steffen Peters helps a Second/Third Level rider work with her tense horse at the clinic. Steffen encourages loosening up the horse’s body to help quiet his mind. The rider works on alternating between flexion and counter flexion and changes of direction at the walk and trot to supple her horse.
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The half-halt rebalances the horse, asking him to shift more weight onto his hind end and recycling forward energy to his hind legs. In this video, Ashley Donadt offers simple exercises to help you feel and understand the mechanics of the half-halt, explains why and how it’s used, and teaches you...