Training Articles

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With nationals coming up ive been having lots of chats with the riders i coach about how they deal with mistakes and problems in a test....

So last week we did a whole training article around transitions, and we covered a lot! From the different types of transitions and what...

Transitions form a solid basis for everything we do in dressage. They are obviously in every single test from Intro to Grand Prix but...

We all lose marks in different places but so often i see riders lose easy marks. These are the marks they really didnt need to lose,...

This week i was having a chat with one of my riders who had a big test coming up. We had been working on their centre lines and...

I realised that we havent actually done a troubleshooting tip in a long time! For those of you that are newer to the training articles,...

Its a fact of life that some horses are spooky and some arent. We all know horses are naturally flight animals and to an extent i think...

This week i wanted to talk about riding horses that are strong or feel like they lean against you. I've had quite a few riders coming to...

The length of rein you use can vary and change as you go through your session, you might lengthen your rein to stretch your horse or...

Now we've all been there, where you have a caller so you haven't learn your test, you haven't run through your test before the...

I think its really important to talk about and reflect on the things we learnt in the last year, what we learnt from the bad experiences...

Its that time of year again when we are all trying to find that perfect gift for the people we love! I know finding that perfect present...

Suppleness is one of those things where i think we all struggle with how much we should be aiming for? How supple should your horse be,...

I think we all probably know the importance of bend, we need it on circles, serpentines and corners and our horse needs to be supple and...

The give & retake is one of the movements that i think is so often misunderstood and rarely worked on in training. So what is a give and...

I have had a lot of clients recently that have come to me wanting to improve their medium trot or wanting to teach their horse how to do...

Having our horses on the bit, having them round or in an outline is something that seems to be something all dressage riders focus a lot...

Why is tension an issue? Tension is one of those things that can completely destroy the mark you get for the movement or even your whole...

I thought this would be a really interesting topic to talk about as I feel like its a big gap where I see a lot of people missing out on...