Developing Collection Part 1
Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride begins a series on developing collection. These are actual schooling session with Amber and Legolas as they begin the journey toward collection. In other words, you’ve got your horse stretching and well developed in working gaits, what comes next. We show you each days schooling over a period of a few weeks so that you can get an idea of how we progress over time. A good trainer is like a chess player, he is thinking many moves ahead and how his beginning strategy will effect his end game.
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Hi Will and Amber,
REALLY looking forward to this series and want to thank you for the time you are taking to pass on your knowledge. I am totally hooked on website and have begun training my horse using your methods – with excellent results so far!
Thanks Again for reviving Dressage!, Margaret
Keith says: Great series! Can you explain the aids you use for the canter strike off please. It looks to me like she uses the inside leg on the girth. I find by using the outside leg to ask for canter confuses the horse when trying to do half pass in walk or trot, as when asking for a yielding of the haunches they think it a canter request! So I have switched back to asking with the inside heal at the girth keeping it placed there with the outside slightly placed behind the girth to say ” keep in canter”. This way my hips are placed in the same manner as the horses. Do you do it this way to?
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Kali says:
No, I support with in the inside leg and ask for the new canter lead with the outside leg. When you ask for a horse to bend with the outside leg as in half pass, you slide the leg back from the hip, when you ask for a change with the outside leg you should move the leg more from the knee in a little circle to increase the intensity of the aid. Most horses have no problem understanding when it is done this way. Remember, whenever the horse is bent, your outside leg should be back from the hip, this is the single most difficult technique to achieve in riding and the one that keeps many people from every getting very far in dressage. Once you learn that it’s easy to bend horses once they are over their backs, remembering of course that no horse can bend until they are over their backs.
Mark Stevens says: Wonderful to watch
Like previous writer, I too use these videos to correct my previous training style. I have read Nunos book, and also Klimke and Franz Mariner who trained the Australian Olympic team, but all the reading I have done needed to be complimented by the Art 2 Ride videos of Wills. I wish I had been able to see these years ago. Nevertheless, I am now enjoying my 16.2 T/bred more than ever and I think he is enjoying me more as well as we focus on the stretching etc and build his back. Will, I hope you don’t mind but I have adopted you as my mentor and hopefully this 67 year old rider has a few more good years in him.
Cheers, Mark (Toowoomba, Qld, Aust)
Hi Will and Amber,
REALLY looking forward to this series and want to thank you for the time you are taking to pass on your knowledge. I am totally hooked on website and have begun training my horse using your methods – with excellent results so far!
Thanks Again for reviving Dressage!, Margaret
Great series! Can you explain the aids you use for the canter strike off please. It looks to me like she uses the inside leg on the girth. I find by using the outside leg to ask for canter confuses the horse when trying to do half pass in walk or trot, as when asking for a yielding of the haunches they think it a canter request! So I have switched back to asking with the inside heal at the girth keeping it placed there with the outside slightly placed behind the girth to say ” keep in canter”. This way my hips are placed in the same manner as the horses. Do you do it this way to?
No, I support with in the inside leg and ask for the new canter lead with the outside leg. When you ask for a horse to bend with the outside leg as in half pass, you slide the leg back from the hip, when you ask for a change with the outside leg you should move the leg more from the knee in a little circle to increase the intensity of the aid. Most horses have no problem understanding when it is done this way. Remember, whenever the horse is bent, your outside leg should be back from the hip, this is the single most difficult technique to achieve in riding and the one that keeps many people from every getting very far in dressage. Once you learn that it’s easy to bend horses once they are over their backs, remembering of course that no horse can bend until they are over their backs.
Wonderful to watch
Like previous writer, I too use these videos to correct my previous training style. I have read Nunos book, and also Klimke and Franz Mariner who trained the Australian Olympic team, but all the reading I have done needed to be complimented by the Art 2 Ride videos of Wills. I wish I had been able to see these years ago. Nevertheless, I am now enjoying my 16.2 T/bred more than ever and I think he is enjoying me more as well as we focus on the stretching etc and build his back. Will, I hope you don’t mind but I have adopted you as my mentor and hopefully this 67 year old rider has a few more good years in him.
Cheers, Mark (Toowoomba, Qld, Aust)