Dressage training and competition exercises for beginners: Flatwork & collection schooling for horses: Horse books for adults | Natural Horsemanship

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:

Origins of dressage

Why dressage is great for your horse

Benefits of dressage

Dressage success tips

Saddles for dressage

Bridles and tack for dressage

Gadgets

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

Walk in hand

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

Dressage riding exercises - The warmup

Straightness riding exercises

Energy and impulsion riding exercises

Weight aids, timing and cues exercises

Bends and corners

Transition exercises

Serpentine riding exercises

Falling in love with corners riding exercise

And many more riding exercises

The 10 step exercise for collection

Spiral collection exercise

The teardrop collection exercise

Shoulder out for collection

Leg yields for collection

Going to dressage competitions

Dressage test mindset

Checklist: The week before your dressage test

Checklist: The day before your dressage test

Checklist: Your dressage test day

How to get the most from the judge's advice

The warmup arena

Tips to remember your dressage test

Managing competition nerves

Competition tips

After your dressage test

Common dressage test questions and issues

Dressage mistakes and problems to avoid

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

Elaine Heney is the #1 best-selling author, award-winning film-maker, director of Grey Pony Films, and creator of the 'Listening to the Horse™' documentary. She has helped over 120,000+ horse owners in 113 countries to create awesome relationships with their horses. Elaine lives in Ireland with her horses Ozzie & Matilda. Discover Elaine’s series of world renowned online groundwork, riding & training programs at Grey Pony Films.