Advanced Dressage Training by Angela Niemeyer Eastwood & Andrea Hessay

Author:Angela Niemeyer Eastwood & Andrea Hessay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Crowood Press

Correct bend through turns and corners.

It is possible to do the square in canter. The four turns become quarter pirouettes: two or three strides of pirouette canter per turn, moving the shoulders in front of the quarters. Obviously, when the canter square is achieved, it can be made smaller and the quarter pirouettes then turned into half pirouettes, thus changing the rein. The latter is something to remember to do regularly with all exercises

The final touch is that you check, from time to time, that you can ride this pirouette work with a giving inside rein so that the horse is working from your inside leg to the outside rein, keeping the bend.

Ride some straight lines, not necessarily on the track, and ask for some shortened strides, into pirouette canter, and then ride on again. Do this on both reins, and quite often, so that this becomes easy and part of the everyday routine

Ride on to a 20m circle with quarters in on to an 8m volte, keeping the rhythm and tempo intact without any variation – and ride out on to the larger circle again before he thinks of slowing down

When this is easy on both reins, ride on to the short diagonal line, straight towards the centre line, set up the positioning, and ride a large working half-pirouette back to the track, staying in counter canter. At A or C ride a single flying change or perhaps a simple change, then ride the exercise again on the other rein

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