PSG Stretch and Collection | Daniel Martin Dockx | PART 01
Rider Position and Aids
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15m
Spanish Olympian Daniel Dockx works with a young American rider on a PRE horse showing Prix St. Georges s and I1. In the warm up they show great stretch, which continues into the trot. Daniel asks that they make downward transitions with the head still in the down position. When they start into the work, Daniel first asks them for working trot to collected trot transitions for just a few steps. In the shoulder in he stresses that the neck be in the right position with the inside leg to the outside rein and without running.
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