DRESSAGE
1. The object of dressage is the development of the horse in full harmony with the rider through harmonic education. As a result of this, the horse becomes balanced, flexible, resilient, free and receptive but also trusting, considerate and diligent, achieving complete understanding with its rider.
These qualities are reflected in:
• Freedom and regularity of paces
• In harmony, lightness and freedom of movement
• The ease of the front legs and the engagement of the hindquarters, through an energetic driven pulse.
• Perceiving of the reins, submission to the aids of the rider, and at the same time playing with the bit/mouthpiece in the mouth, without tension and resistance.
2. The horse creates an illusion, that it performs everything on its own initiative and understands what is required of it. Trusting and considerate, he readily subjects to the control of the rider, remaining absolutely straight in any movement in a straight line and keeping a constant bend when moving on curved lines.
3. Its walk is steady, free and natural. In trot it has freedom, flexibility and is steady and energetic. The rear is always active and is not granted. The horse reacts to the slightest of indications of the rider and so fills its whole body with liveliness and energetic drive.
4. Under the momentum and the flexibility of the joints, free and the fixed/paralyzing/ effect of resistance, the horse is subjected with relish and without hesitation and reacts to the various aids, calmly and with precision, showing a natural and harmonic balance, both physical and mental.
5. During all the work, even when braking to a stop the horse must be “on the rein”. The horse is said to be “on the rein”, when the neck is more or less raised and rounded to the degree of preparation, the pace is extended or collected, taking the rein, with light and soft contact, obeying with its full body. The head must stay in a steady position, and as a rule slightly in front of the nose-dive, with a flexible cervical vertebrae, with the highest point of the head being the highest point of the cervical vertebrae and without resistance to the aids of the rider.
6. In trot and canter it is needed to demonstrate rhythm and uprightness (cadence), which is a result of the good harmony, the horse shows this when it moves are well defined and smooth, are uniform, with good momentum and balance. The rhythm (cadence) must be maintained in all variations of the trot and canter and the performed exercises and is a fundamental element of Dressage.
These qualities are reflected in:
• Freedom and regularity of paces
• In harmony, lightness and freedom of movement
• The ease of the front legs and the engagement of the hindquarters, through an energetic driven pulse.
• Perceiving of the reins, submission to the aids of the rider, and at the same time playing with the bit/mouthpiece in the mouth, without tension and resistance.
2. The horse creates an illusion, that it performs everything on its own initiative and understands what is required of it. Trusting and considerate, he readily subjects to the control of the rider, remaining absolutely straight in any movement in a straight line and keeping a constant bend when moving on curved lines.
3. Its walk is steady, free and natural. In trot it has freedom, flexibility and is steady and energetic. The rear is always active and is not granted. The horse reacts to the slightest of indications of the rider and so fills its whole body with liveliness and energetic drive.
4. Under the momentum and the flexibility of the joints, free and the fixed/paralyzing/ effect of resistance, the horse is subjected with relish and without hesitation and reacts to the various aids, calmly and with precision, showing a natural and harmonic balance, both physical and mental.
5. During all the work, even when braking to a stop the horse must be “on the rein”. The horse is said to be “on the rein”, when the neck is more or less raised and rounded to the degree of preparation, the pace is extended or collected, taking the rein, with light and soft contact, obeying with its full body. The head must stay in a steady position, and as a rule slightly in front of the nose-dive, with a flexible cervical vertebrae, with the highest point of the head being the highest point of the cervical vertebrae and without resistance to the aids of the rider.
6. In trot and canter it is needed to demonstrate rhythm and uprightness (cadence), which is a result of the good harmony, the horse shows this when it moves are well defined and smooth, are uniform, with good momentum and balance. The rhythm (cadence) must be maintained in all variations of the trot and canter and the performed exercises and is a fundamental element of Dressage.
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