🌟 Dressage Thoughts 💫
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I’ve recently changed my dressage day routine at home, and I think it’s really helped our scores in the show ring.
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My previous routine after a walk and stretchy warm-up, I would begin trotting and cantering around the ring with no real plan. Doing transitions, lateral work, wherever I felt I wasn’t feeling so great would continuously add exercises. Fitness wise, it was fairly strenuous. But, I think because I was continuously moving/working on something maybe not so precise.
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve considered I do my fitness work other days, and I still walk and warm-up the same way. But, now I choose a few movements, I school each exact movement maybe 3/4 times, walk, then pick up my reins and proceed to the next.
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For example, if I want to work on my lateral work. I may do the same direction leg yield down the long side 3/4x. Each time I can improve my aids, help swatch understand the movement, then break. The first time, I might have let the h...