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How do I teach my horse dressage movements?

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How do I teach my horse dressage movements?

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Get an instructor or go to some clinics! Or at least buy a dressage training book for the more advanced movements (the flying changes and the piaffes). Training leg yielding is fairly simple, but your horse needs to be able to yield laterally to leg pressure. You can start teaching this on the ground, simply by applying pressure to the horse’s side where you would apply leg pressure if you were riding. A dressage whip can be helpful for this, using it to provide a gentle reminder of what you are asking. Once you get the horse yielding to pressure on the ground, practice it under saddle. The main thing is that the horse has to learn to move sideways but keep his body straight and parallel to the wall, crossing his legs over one another to move correctly. Seat aids, as you put it, are not a “movement”, but a necessary method of communication between you and your horse in order to perform any movement of dressage, along with leg and hand aids. Piaffes require far more detailed ground trai

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