It’s true that developing “correct” impulsion may take years to fully learn and understand. But that doesn’t mean that even the most novice rider can’t learn it at the basic level, and use impulsion to help counter or completely eliminate riding problems as they arise.
Improving the horse’s movement is one of the first things we should attempt to work on from the minute we get on the horse’s back. Here are four basic steps so you can get started with your own horse.
The thing is, the harder we try to keep the legs from moving, the more they swing, tighten, and finally slide out of the stirrups! What to do? Here are three steps (pun intended!) to a quieter leg position.
This exercise can help you get started at a basic level. These two movements combine to give you a sort of road map, if you will, to begin to find your horse’s back.
It’s a simple leading routine. But does it ever produce a calm, happy, horse and handler relationship.
3 steps to transform on-the-forehand to (more) on-the-hind-end – and what it feels like.
We likely never notice them at all but there is quite a lot to be said about the elbows.
Because dressage training is rooted in the absolute basics that all horses will go through (whether or not the riders are aware), time spent on developing the dressage in the rider is never wasted!