Dr. M_ller encourages the rider to become quicker with her corrections, and continue on the same path of keeping the contact through the resistance. Even as she is allowed to stretch, they still ask for contact on the reins. Dr. M_ller explains that once any possible soundness concerns are rule...

Connection, elastic elbows with Jose Mendez

Connection, elastic elbows with Jose Mendez

Connection, elastic elbows with Jose Mendez

Colonel Carde works with this student on achieving throughness threw activity.

Steffen Peters watches this pair warm up at the walk and explains what he is looking for as he watches a new horse. He talks about finding the right tempo for warming up and how that is different for each horse.  He helps her through a small spook by asking her to yield to the inside leg on a sma...

Charles de Kunffy works with this rider to help relax her horse and keep him from coming behind the vertical. He offers a 3-step approach to keeping the horse from coming too deep: 1. Slow down 2. Yield both reins forward 3. Accentuate the drive forward with your inside leg.

Christoph watches how they school the changes on a serpentine with a couple of simple changes, then a flying change. He helps her try to make this work, however he suggests a different way to school them. After producing several disunited changes, they decide to wait until the next day to continu...

Mr. Hess starts this session off with a great statement- You have to listen with your hands into the horses mouth.  They start out with a pleasant trot, but he asks that the rider make the steps bigger with a driving leg.  They add a shoulder in and a 10 meter circle in each corner.  He asks her ...

During a break they talk about the kind of flexion this mare should be working for, and he points out that she is behind the aids. When they return to the trot, Mr. Hess points out that to be in front of the leg the mare must respond immediately. After a 10-meter circle in the corner they asked f...

In this second video, Christoph Hess adds a lot of transitions to get the mare supple, obedient and in front of the leg. As they start with the trot, he asks them to go shoulder fore and make sure that he isn't looking at her neck. He has him ride several canter-trot-canter transitions with the r...

Cesar asks the rider to make sure her corrections are effective. He incorporates half steps into their lesson, as well as trot halt trot transitions. When they go to the canter, they work on canter walk canter transitions and collection.

The fist exercise Ms. Von Dietze has the rider become aware of how the vertebrae in her neck work to understand how this connects to engaging her abs and lifting her chest. They next work on her mobility by leaning towards the neck of the horse, rounding her back, stretching, and then rising bac...

The fist exercise Ms. Von Dietze has the rider become aware of how the vertebrae in her neck work to understand how this connects to engaging her abs and lifting her chest. They next work on her mobility by leaning towards the neck of the horse, rounding her back, stretching, and then rising bac...

The fist exercise Ms. Von Dietze has the rider become aware of how the vertebrae in her neck work to understand how this connects to engaging her abs and lifting her chest. They next work on her mobility by leaning towards the neck of the horse, rounding her back, stretching, and then rising bac...

The fist exercise Ms. Von Dietze has the rider become aware of how the vertebrae in her neck work to understand how this connects to engaging her abs and lifting her chest. They next work on her mobility by leaning towards the neck of the horse, rounding her back, stretching, and then rising bac...

The fist exercise Ms. Von Dietze has the rider become aware of how the vertebrae in her neck work to understand how this connects to engaging her abs and lifting her chest. They next work on her mobility by leaning towards the neck of the horse, rounding her back, stretching, and then rising bac...

Biomechanics expert Mary Wanless presents her theory on how to improve your riding. Her vivid visual images and emphasis on body awareness provide insights into how riders affect the movement of the horses.

Lars Petersen greets this rider and finds her partner is a Mustang mare!  They show him their usual warm up, and he asks that in the warm up she asks her to be lower in the neck from the withers and reaching forward when she softens the reins.  They establish a better response from the leg so tha...

They return to the sitting trot and establish a more consistent contact to the bit.  Lars explains that she cant be light until she is through and encourages the rider to keep a soft, rubber band feel with the bit. When they go to the canter he helps her push through the resistance to find more t...

Lars asks them to next to a shoulder fore with no bend making sure it not hindquarters out. They come to the walk and establish the connection  and then go back to the exercise. When she loses the base of the neck she halts to reestablish it, and Lars encourages her to eventually do it through co...

Olympian Lisa Wilcox describes how she works with a horse with a strong underneck to develop a better topline. The horse needs to bend in ribcage to be able to stay on the outside rein. Her reins are the same length, she explains, but the outside rein is farther up than the inside reins to allow ...