Training Articles

What rein length should you ride on?

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...

Why You Should Be Doing More Test Riding

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...

What I Have Learnt From 2022

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...

Gift Ideas For Dressage Riders!

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...

Is Your Horse Supple Enough?

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,...

What is the difference between bend and flexion ?

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...

Perfecting your Give & Retake

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...

Get to grips with medium trot

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...

The 4 things you need to get your horse round and in an outline

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...

7 tips for dealing with tension at competitions

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...

Analysing your test sheet

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...