2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

2009 Adequan/USDF Symposium featuring, Jan Brink

Juan Manuel Munoz Diaz shows us the initial stages of introducing the piaffe and passage as demonstrated with two beautiful Lusitanos. Watch for his inspirational approach to building the foundation for correct and relaxed movements.

Dani Dockx conducts a lesson with a Lusitano stallion competing at I1 beginning with a lovely forward trot. He asks for the canter to go forward and collect, go forward and collect while keeping the contact. The medium canter is conservative, so they work on making it bigger.

Dani Dockx conducts a lesson with a Lusitano stallion competing at I1 beginning with a lovely forward trot. He asks for the canter to go forward and collect, go forward and collect while keeping the contact. The medium canter is conservative, so they work on making it bigger.

Dani Dockx conducts a lesson with a Lusitano stallion competing at I1 beginning with a lovely forward trot. He asks for the canter to go forward and collect, go forward and collect while keeping the contact. The medium canter is conservative, so they work on making it bigger.

Daniel Dockx rides the eight year old Manchengo in this next video who is just starting Prix St. Georges and piaffe and passage. They start with a stretch in the trot while maintaining the same rhythm, and ask for shoulder in and canter while in the same frame. He also does transitions within th...

Daniel explains why he uses the trot piaffe trot in the training of the piaffe and passage. Manchengo performs several of these transitions with relaxation in both directions, and Daniel follows with some passage. He rewards him for his hard work with another stretch. The extended trot is next.

Daniel describes how he handles a horse that gets tense when he starts to collect them. He checks his transitions within the gait in the canter in both directions before working on the half pirouettes. They do quarter pirouettes on a square, preparing him and keeping him relaxed. After a stret...

Laurens now goes to the piaffe and passage Ulysees has struggled with the piaffe and it is still in development He begins by making sure he is quick off his leg aids and is light in the front He makes sure he finds the rhythm that is comfortable for the horse and works on the basics when he becom...