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Dressage or Hunter riding?

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:19:46 +0000

I’m switching from Eventing to either Dressage or Hunter riding. I want to choose only one discipline, in which to really work on and compete in. I would just like some opinions from you guys. Which do you like better and why?

Also, I have a 15.3hh Quarter Horse. He would most likely be an amazing hunter, but he also has a beautiful dressage walk and trot (however, the canter would need some work).
Also, which saddle/make do you prefer for each discipline?

Why choose? Both disciplines offer something different and you should be able to continue showing hunter until you get through 2nd level dressage….after that it may be conterproducitve to do both. but for now, it would break up the monotony of training for him. It sounds like you mostly dont like the cross country phase…so what about combined tests , which only have stadium and dressage?

Academic art of riding – Classical riding – Dressage

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:10:49 +0000

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Horse: Hugin, knabstrupper stallion, 23 years old
Rider; Marijke de Jong
Owner: Bent Branderup

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Denmark october 2008
Training with Bent Branderup
The legendary Hugin is born in 1986, and is on this movie 22 years old.
The horse is totally blind.

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/what are ways i can quicky improve my dressage skills?

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:13:44 +0000

I’m currently taking dressage lesson and am quickly learning, but would like to know some tips on how i can become better at riding dressage. any tips are great! (would love personal experience rather than just of a website!)
I kno that it takes hard work cocentration and pracitce but is there a way i could preform beter?

I have been riding English Pleasure for years. I have taken hunt seat and jumping lessons on and off, but I started consistently taking dressage lessons about 8 months ago. I really love it! Anyway, I love my instructor, and she is awesome. She specifically uses all types of metaphors and talks about each muscle, etc. She gets a lot of her stuff from Mary Wanless and has studied with her in England. She got Mary to come here and give a clinic 3 weeks ago, and I got to go to one session. I would really reccommend buying a Mary Wanless video. It will help you think about so many different things. Anyway, here are a bunch of tips, on and off horse, that you may or may not know.
–shoulders back, head up and back, straight line shoulder-hip-heel. Don’t lean too far back…a lot of people do this & get behind the vertical.
-spiral your legs in: think of pointing your toes towards the horse, this should spiral your legs in towards the horse more and remove your ankles/feet/heels from being on the horse, though they will be used as an aid. Your toes will be dead straight pointing ahead. Your weight will and should be resting on the inside of your thighs and not on the bottoms of your thighs. basically, if the horse flew out from underneath you, you would be in a standing position with your knees bent and toes straght ahead.
-think front tendons up: there are tendons that attach your thighs to your pelvis right in the middle of the front of your thigh. You should be squeezing with your thigh but should have those tendons loose, allowing you to sit deeper in the saddle. This is especially helpful for canter.
-tight core: you need to strengthen your core: take pilates and yoga classes. When you ride, engage your abdominal muscles and your back and lateral muscles. you should be engaging all of your core muscles but still breathing deep into your abdomen.
–foot light: you are squeezing with your thighs, you should have hardly any weight 15% max in your stirrups.
–hands still: you need to have constant connection with the bit. When you trot, you need to lenghthen and shorten your arm length. To do this, you will bend and straighten your arms a little, all the while keeping your hands still.
–when i am at work (or if you are in school, work, etc.) I try to tighten all of my core (stomach, side, and back muscles). I also try to sit up straight at my desk w/ my back flat, my legs on either side of the chair, and my legs spiraled inward. Of course, I can’t do this all day–look weird and feel weird–but I practice it a few times
–When posting, make sure you get to the top of the rise, right over the pommel–you should be straight up and down at the top. however, you should also be able to control your horse’s trot from your post. To slow your horse and lengthen his stride, stay up longer in the post and down longer in the seat. This is reeeeaaaaallllllyyyy hard at first. It will help to use a neck strap—this goes around the horses neck. You can hold onto it with one hand, along with your reins. this will help you pause a little longer at the top of the rise, which is really hard while you are still developing insane dressage muscles. I did this at the wanless clinic, and it helped tremendously. It is amazing how the horse responds to this. Think as if there was chewing gum stuck to your butt, like there is resistance to getting to the top of the rise, pause, and resistance going back into your seat, pause.
–canter: again, foot light, front tendons up, lats down—push down with your muscles on your sides,move your butt down and up towards your pubic bone, then quickly move your butt all the way back to the cantle to follow the motion of the canter. move your hands with the horses head and keep constant contact.
–circles: when doing cirles, make sure that your horse is flexed inward.his nose should be pointing slightly in but do not overbend. squeeze with your inside leg and sponge your inside rein a little…Also, practice counter flexion to stretch him and encourage him to bend at the poll, flex, get into a frame, etc. on the circle use the same cues, but do it on the outside leg and rein.

There are a million things I could tell you…I’d write all day. Feel free to email me. I am still learning myself, especially putting them all into practice, but I have gained a good amount of head knowledge due to my instructors and clinics (2 clinics), including lessons on anatomy and the physiology of riding…they even had a fake skeleton pelvis on a saddle, etc. If there are specific things you want to know, I can help you. However, it is hard to help too much without being there in person.

The best advice is to ride often, ride with different instructors that are extremely knowledgeable and who have studied under people well-known in the field of dressage. have someone take picture and videos of you so that you can see what you look like when riding. I am always surpris

Where can I get good riding clips of saddle seat and hunt and jumpin and dressage?

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:07:23 +0000

Just wondering

For buying a good riding clips of saddle seat, hunt, jumpin and dressage try to visit http://www.saddleonline.com a unique store for all kind of saddle. Might be this would help you. They have variety of saddles and you must like them.

German Horse Dressage Hofperle by Hochadel

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:45:20 +0000

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Hofperle by stallion Hochadel
born10.05.2006 – Mare – Hanoverian – Dressage Hoirse Sale

Due to her many victories and placements, this exceptional dressage horse lady can impressively point to her success within the dressage arena. Hofperle, approx. 168cm tall, has excellente basic gaits and is very, very easy to ride and train.

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Do you ride Dressage or do you know what dressage is?

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:43:30 +0000

Simple answers,
either yes or no, i ride dressage, or i know what dressage is.

No- I do not ride and/or perform dressage. But yes I do know what it is…

Dressage vs Western, Horses

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:01:40 +0000

dressage vs Western, Horses

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Would watching/reading too many books on dressage be deterimental towards my riding?

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:47:42 +0000

I’ve been riding for quite a few years now, but I’ve just recently started riding dressage with a new instructor at a new barn and let me tell you- it’s hard! I was taught how to ride wrong for a long time at my old barn, and now I have a lot of bad habits to break and I have absolutely 0 self esteem in my horseback riding skills right now because I’ve been told that basically everything I’ve been doing for the past 7 years was wrong. Although my new instructor is great, I’ve just kinda had trouble grasping the concepts of dressage and sometimes I don’t really understand what she’s telling me because I am totally lost and confused and doubting everything I do. I’m such a horse nerd and I desperately want to get my hands on every single piece of dressage literature on the market right now and learn everything RIGHT, but I’m nervous because my instructor says that I "overthink" A LOT while riding and that I need to stop thinking and just ride. I feel like thats easy for her to say but I need direction to know how to ride correctly in the first place, right? Anyway, from personal experience do you find that reading a lot about dressage theory confuses you and overwhelms you when you get on your horse to ride, or do you think it’ll be helpful? I just ordered the USDF Guide to Dressage today and was thinking about also getting Sally Swift’s Centered Riding or some of Jane Savoie’s stuff? HELP! ):

The only way that I can see that it would be detrimental is if you try to accomplish everything at once. It will take a long time to create new muscle memories, so you can’t start off doing upper level work. However, I see no problem with being aware of the whole path, as long as you keep your focus on the part of the path you are on.

I’d also recommend W. Musler’s Riding Logic.

thoroughbred dressage horse riding? anyone?

admin — Sat, 22 May 2010 11:45:39 +0000

hello. i am currently free leasing a dressage horse. he is thord level trained. un fortunatly, i have never ridden dressage. but i am loving learning how to do it. my question is. how do you ride dressage? legs? hands and raines? butt? i have great balence, but when i trot him, he puts his head down real low< almost to the ground> so i know hes trying to tell me im doing it wrong. i have friend at the barn who is there on the weekends, and i rode him today, but i was just wondering if someone could tell me where to put everything and in what position. i know this is a hrd question, but if you could do the best you can, me nad stroker would really appreciate it. he is really big<17.3> so he can be intimidating, but im not scared of him, he super sweet and very funny. i just want to know how to keep him happy while riding. thank you.
i am cleaning 8 stalls three days a week for the lease on him. i’ve been doing this for about two weeks now, i didn’t know he was thrid level dressage until today. she told me he had some dressage training, but someone who knows him from a long time ago said he was thrid level. thats why i am inquiring. i really don’t want to ruin his training, if i can’t do it within a few weeks, im going to change horses. thanks.

You need to take lessons. We cant tell you what you are doing wrong with out being there to see you. Hire a trainer. I know its fun to learn but if you didn’t know how to ride at least at 2nd level then you shouldn’t lease a 3rd level dressage horse. It takes a lot of work. PLEASE get a trainer before you ruin his training. (which you will do by not doing his cues right, he will try to please you by doing it WRONG)

Find a dressage instructor or get a different horse

Loyd by Stallion Londonderry – Eventing Dressage Riding

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 23:56:42 +0000

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