11 Training Tips You Can Use Today

Step-by-Step Dressage Clinic Slide Show
with German Trainer's Team Member Jochen Hippenstiel
Clinic provided by Briar Fox Farm in Fall 2003

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Candy Nuss and Siegfried

Training Tip #3: Keep him in the rhythm and working through his back by not letting his neck come up too high. If not he gets uneven in the rhythm and then resists.

Candy is from Hoisington, KS. and her horse Siegfied is an 8 year old Bay Trakener gelding, 16 hands. Besides correctly positioning the horse, they also worked on very accurate leg yielding to get the horse moving from the inside leg and onto the outside rein. In Germany this is called "Weichen". The spectators also discovered that Leg Yielding Left in Germany means Leg Yielding off the left leg and moving to the right. In the US, Leg Yielding Left means Leg Yielding off the right leg and moving to the left. They also worked on very accurate execution of the counter canter.

Photo credit: BFF Handycam

Briar Fox Farm will provide top quality dressage clinics at most of our schooling shows. The show & clinic format offers a maximum experience for improvement. You can take a clinic on Friday evening before the show, show on Saturday morning, and take another clinic session or two on Sat. afternoon or Sunday. For more info and to enter....click here.