Part 7: Allison reminds a rider to be gentle and clear in her aids. Nagging legs and being too abrupt through turns has created an unhappy partnership. As Allison guides the rider to softness and helps give the horse consistency and clarity, the mare becomes visibly happier and more relaxed. She ...

Part 8: Allison reminds the riders that the outside rein is for rounding and slowing., and encourages them to have the lightest possible feel in their hands when they use this aid. She assists a rider whose horse is herd bound by helping the horse focus on moving forwards and giving the rein. All...

Part 9: Allison draws the group's attention to keeping a feel of their horse. She uses the example of one mare who is getting tight in her back and wound up, and explains hw it is the riders responsibility to notice this and do something to redirect it by showing the horse the way to relaxation a...

Part 10: The groups begins to work over a small grid of fences, with a focus on maintaining all the principles covered on the flat. Allison explains the priorities coming into the fence are line of direction, speed, rhythm, and balance. She works with one rider who has a more experienced horse th...

Part 11: Allison corrects a ride who sits down and goes against her horse on the approach to a fence. She explains that the horse is slowing on approach to ask for a little confidence, and helps the rider provide this by staying in the motion and closing the leg. She reminds the riders that when ...

Part 12: The riders continue to work down the line of fences. Allison explains why the one stride into the bounce is so useful, as it helps the horses that tend to rush slow down and think. Allison works with one rider who tends to let her horse jump underpowered. She explains this means the hors...

Part 13: Allison works with a rider to keep her butt out of the saddle on the last few strides into the jump. She explains that by sitting down, the rider is telling the horse to increase speed and is breaking the rhythm and flatwork rules on approach to the fence. Allison concludes the session.

Part 1: Susan Hutchison opens the session by working clinic riders on the flat. She coaches the group as they learn to effectively control their horse's speed. Focusing on the aids for collection and extension, Susan supports riders as they increase the quality of the gaits and their ability to r...

Part 2: Susan provides feedback as riders tackle fences. Working on developing the stride and common issues such as rider straightness, viewers observe positive changes in performance as the session progresses. Addressing 'universal errors' such as starting a course too slow and finishing it too ...

Part 3: Susan uses an exercise in speed control into a fence, with a sudden stop afterwards, to give horses and riders a new challenge. In studying the success and struggles of the riders, along with Susan's expert commentary, viewers receive insight into a valuable exercise for creating the corr...

Trailer for International five star event rider Sharon White's Straightness Over Jumps session. Sharon gives a lesson over show jumps, focused on maintaining straightness and balance over fences. The rider applies the principles of flatwork, paying attention to her position, and incorporating exe...

Part 1: Sharon opens the session by explaining the goal is to help the horse to use his back more. The horse is unreliable with his lead change and tends to be crooked to the right. Sharon explains how this can be fixed by focusing on making sure the horse is tracking up, and working in rhythm an...

Part 2: Sharon continues to work with the rider as she warms up to jump. They focus on correct position, dropping the stirrup irons to open the hip flexors and come around the horse. Sharon encourages the rider to be curious, to make her own corrections and not worry about making mistakes. They w...

Part 3: Sharon notes that the horse has a hard time staying straight and tracking up while jumping. She explains that sometimes working on the opposite issue helps correct the problem, and so they work on turns while jumping. Sharon using a circle jumping exercise to build strength and confidence...

Part 4: The rider applies the principles of straightness, balance and rhythm to a course. Sharon praises how effortless it looks as they have done the schooling. She reminds the rider not to interfere and to let the horse think for himself, and only adjust him when necessary, rather than interrup...

Part 1: Matt works on adjusting the horses stride while maintaining a consistent contact and rhythm in both trot and canter. He teaches the importance of timing the aids with the horses rhythm to avoid interrupting them. This helps encourage lightness and self carriage. Adding ground poles increa...

Part 2: Matt introduces a fence and discusses the importance of controlling the canter stride and keeping it rhythmic for a better approach. Focusing on the riders line of sight and seeing a stride, Matt assists them in setting up for a better jump. The riders have difficulty doing this without c...

Part 3: Matt focuses on assisting the riders to teach the horse to look for the jump. Matt helps the rider focus on finding their line into every jump, and keeps them riding forward even with distractions. Discussing the importance of going with the horse, Matt works with the rider to soften the ...

Olympian David O'Connor works with Sinead Halpin and her talented mare to improve their stadium jumping. He notices the horse struggles to maintain her shape and straightness over fences and suggests guide poles to help with this.

Part 1: David introduces the rider and her horse, who's at preliminary level currently and in an eighteen month training plan to be brought along. He explains she is a great mover, but very weak behind and she has a competition in two weeks. They start warming up, focusing on leg yield and canter...

Part 2: David encourages the rider to put the horse together earlier on the approach to a jump. He suggests working hard five to eight strides away to get her prepared, then have a quieter ride in and allow her to make a nicer shape over the fence. They work on jumping on a circle, and encourage ...

Part 3: David explains that the rider can help her horse and encourage her forward to the jump, but her hand has to remain consistent and help her stay in packaged to the fence. They start work on a combination of fences. David notes that the mare loses her straightness and shape, and suggests th...

Part 1: David explains that he believes every rider should be able to execute all of their dressage movements before jumping. He has them ride in two point and work through shoulders in, haunches in and collected canter. The riders practice lengthening and collecting the stride alternately, then ...

Olympic Silver Medalist Greg Best teaches a lesson in the stadium to help riders produce the right kind of jump for verticals. Addressing everything from position to tack, Greg thoroughly explains his approach and sets each individual rider and their horse up for success.