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A person riding a chestnut horse in an outdoor arena, showcasing excellent rideability, with the text How to get your DREAM RIDE! overlaid in white, bold letters. The horse is trotting, both wear riding gear, and trees fill the background.

How to Improve Your Horse’s Rideability

Last Updated: 4/30/2026 We all want to have our dream ride, and for me, that all boils down to the thing that people call “rideability”. What is rideability? It’s a feeling of connection with…
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A person in riding gear is riding a brown horse with white wraps on its legs in a dressage arena, showcasing essential horse training for achieving steady contact. Text on the left reads, How to get a STEADY and SUPPLE CONTACT.

How do you get a steady contact and your horse on the bit?

As dressage riders, getting our horses to accept a contact and being able to maintain them steadily “on the bit” is one of the most important things for us to be able to do,…
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Text reads How to Fix Hollow Canter Transitions. Two riders in riding gear are shown on horses; one outline glows red (showing a hollow frame), the other glows green (showing an engaged frame) for better horse training during the trot-canter transition.

The Trot-Canter Transition

The transition from trot to canter is one of the most difficult transitions in my opinion! Most all horses want to come above the bit and use their neck in this transition. It can be…
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A rider in horse riding gear demonstrates how to post the trot on a gray horse, with bold white text reading How to Post the Trot on a black background to the left.

How to Post the Trot

Learning the posting trot is something we do pretty early in our riding careers and once we’ve mastered that rhythmic rise and fall with the beat of the trot, it’s like riding a bike,…
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A woman on a gray horse is coached by another woman, who points to her seat. Text reads How to sit the canter with an arrow indicating posture—perfect for anyone learning canter riding. Trees and a riding arena are visible in the background.

How To Sit The Canter

People always talk about the “rocking horse motion” of the canter, and how wonderful it is, but when you’re having difficulty mastering the motion of sitting the canter, the canter can feel less like…
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A smiling rider in black and neon green rides a gray horse in an arena. Text on the left reads How to ride the perfect CIRCLE, highlighting dressage basics. An inset shows them riding a perfect circle. Trees and sand arena are in the background.

Ride the Perfect Circle: Dressage Basics

Do you ever get sick of riding circles? Dressage is just getting on our horses and doing smaller and smaller circles until eventually we’re almost rotating on the spot (oh wait, that’s a pirouette!)…
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A rider on a black horse is about to jump a yellow obstacle in the Jump Arena. The split image shows an overhead view of the dressage horse’s shadow mid-jump, with bold text reading Dressage Horse in the Jump Arena.

Dressage in the Jump Arena

Sometimes, when you really want to get something done, you’ve got to overcome obstacles and improvise. And sometimes, we can turn the obstacles into tools that can assist us.  Not every rider has access…
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A rider on a black horse jumps over white poles arranged in a cloverleaf shape, showcasing Cavaletti training for improved suppleness. CloverLeaf Cavaletti text is overlaid, with an aerial view on the right showing the pattern drawn on the sand.

Suppleness with Cavaletti Training

I’m guessing that many of you are dressage divas to the marrow! I know we’ve got riders from all disciplines in this lovely community, but if you’re like me, it’s dressage all the live-long…
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A woman in riding gear practices dressage at the canter on a black horse in an outdoor arena, while an instructor walks beside them. Text reads Don't Grip! with arrows highlighting posture and riding tips about not gripping with your legs.

How Not to Grip with your Legs in Canter

Gripping with the legs at the canter is a very common mistake and it makes it impossible for the rider to be effective and for the horse to move correctly! It’s tempting to grip…
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