Frame and Contact | Chrissa Hoffman | PART 03
Rider Position and Aids
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Chrissa Hoffmann rides Faustus in this new video. We saw him last year in the video entitled Developing the Changes. She is now showing him in the Prix St. Georges s Developing classes. He is struggling a bit in the pirouettes, but scored 8's on his changes! They begin to warm up in a lovely, loose, springy trot as he stretches and then they repeat this in the canter, adding a huge single change on the diagonal. She checks that she can bend him left and right and move him forward and back. As they start into their work, Chrissa checks to see how the contact is and if it stays the same through changes within the gait.
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