Raise Your Expectations | Steffen Peters | PART 01
Steffen Peters
•
18m
Steffen Peters helps this pair relax in their warm up using lots of walk halt transitions, asking for control of the first step out of the halt to set the tempo. Right from the beginning he looks for the horse to be in front of the leg and even in the reins. They work through the trot being precise about this, and then go to the canter. Steffen requires that the aids be light with an immediate response, and in the canter pirouette this really stands out. He explains that the rider shouldnt have to work so hard to keep the energy in the pirouette. He has them ride the first stride of the pirouette and then do a lengthened canter immediately. As the exercise progress he has the rider ride pirouette but ride a lengthening forward out of it if she feels it get labored. After a few times of doing this the pirouette is forward with energy.
Up Next in Steffen Peters
-
Improving Suppleness and Sensitivity ...
Steffen emphasizes that a rider should not have to constantly ride with a strong contact and leg. While it is easy for the rider to carry the horse, it is okay if the horse makes a mistake and breaks gait. If that happens, the rider can fix it. When you ask for the horse to go forward or move lat...
-
Improving Suppleness and Sensitivity ...
They continue in the canter work. Steffen wants the rider to do travers in canter. It is difficult for the horse, so they go back and do the same movement in walk before trying again in canter. This exercise will also help improve the canter half pass.
-
Raise Your Expectations | Steffen Pet...
They return to the walk pirouettes and Steffen asks the rider to raise her standards so the horse moves off her calf, not her spur and points out how raising her expectation to the response to her aids will improve the more difficult movements. He has her ride the canter half passes from I1 keepi...
