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What do purple elephants have to do with Dressage?!

The “Purple Elephant” technique is a great tool to help get you in the right frame of mind for riding. Your thoughts create your reality so its essential to have positive and empowering thoughts….
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A rider on a brown horse demonstrates a turn on the haunches in an outdoor arena. Three frames capture key moments of the walk pirouette. White text above reads, Teaching the Turn on the Haunches (Walk Pirouette).

Introducing Turn on the Haunches (aka. walk pirouette)

If you are moving up from First Level to Second Level this year, one of the new movements on your test will be the turn on the haunches. First introduced at Second Level, the…
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A person rides a black horse in an outdoor arena, wearing a helmet and boots. Blue and white text on the image reads, How do you ask horse to canter? Trees are visible in the background.

How to Ask Your Horse to Canter

In this video, we will be going over a few tips for how to ride canter transitions. The universal aid for canter is inside leg at the girth, and outside leg behind the girth….
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Image of a snowman with arrows depicting where to trot or canter when performing this exercise.

The Snowman Exercise

This is a great exercise to improve suppleness, throughness, and elasticity of your horse. In this exercise, make a large, 20m circle in canter, and a small 10m circle in the opposite direction in…
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Dressage Judging is it fair

Dressage Judging: Is it fair?

In this video we discuss dressage judging. As a rider and competitor, it is easy to feel that the judging is unfair at times but in this video we look at the judging from…
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Mindset in the Dressage Competition

The mindset that you have when you ride down the centerline for your Dressage test is essential to having a good ride. For me, I try to start my ride with a sense of…
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Horse show grooming hacks

Dressage Show Grooming Hacks

Today I’m going to talk about grooming at a show. These things have really helped me to make it all easier so I’m going to share some products I use and some tips you…
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hand walking at the horse show

Hand Walking Tips for the Dressage Show

In today’s video I’m at a show and I’m going to give you some tips for hand walking your horse around at the show. It can be a really useful tool to get your…
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Understanding the Collective Marks

Understanding the Collective Marks

Today’s video is about collective marks. What are the collective marks? At the end of your test, the judge gives you five additional scores, which apply from training through fourth level. These five scores…
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