Dressage training and competition exercises for beginners

audiobook (Unabridged) Flatwork & collection schooling for horses: Horse books for adults | Natural Horsemanship

By Elaine Heney

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Ready to improve your dressage skills? This book is packed full of groundwork and riding exercises to improve your dressage training and competition results. It includes how to get ready for your next dressage competitions, handy checklists for your dressage test day and tips to help memorize your test. Plus if you've ever read 'needs more collection' on your dressage test results, this book will show you exactly how to improve your horse's posture, collection and self-carriage the kind way. No pulling on the reins or crazy muscles required! Help your horse to stay healthy, reach his full potential and have fun with dressage. Lessons included inside:

Why dressage is great for your horse

Dressage success tips

Saddles for dressage

Bridles and tack for dressage

Bitless, barefoot and treeless options

Finding a great trainer

How to improve your riding posture

When to start dressage training

Why should you do groundwork?

Halt and backup groundwork exercises

In-hand forequarter and hindquarter yields

Speed and rhythm groundwork exercises

Shoulder out groundwork exercise

Don't overbend your horse

When beginner dressage goes wrong

Collection - what it is and is not

Straightness riding exercises

Energy and impulsion riding exercises

Weight aids, timing and cues exercises

Bends and corners

Transition exercises

Serpentine riding exercises

Shoulder out for collection

Leg yields for collection

Going to dressage competitions & checklists

The warmup arena

Tips to remember your dressage test

Managing competition nerves

Dressage mistakes and problems to avoid

 Impress your friends and become a great dressage rider and talented horse person - starting today!

Dressage training and competition exercises for beginners