101 Dressage Exercises

Ballou J.A. VIGOT 228 pages Whether you ride dressage as a discipline in its own right or want to use dressage schooling to improve your horse's overall performance, training with effective exercises is essential for riding elegant movements with pinpoint accuracy, improving communication between you and your horse, and developing your mount's suppleness, obedience, muscular strength and responsiveness. This book offers 101 exercises for you and your horse so you can school independently without an instructor on the ground. Riders and horses of every level and discipline will find both foundational exercises and exercises designed to teach more advanced manoeuvres. You can progress step by step, refining your ability to communicate through natural aids or perfecting your technique to perform more complex movements with grace and lightness. The instructions for each exercise are broken down into clear, simple steps and accompanied by numerous tips and arena diagrams to help you ride every movement as effectively as possible.