Recent content by Matafleur

Wonderful, thank you! I love the Dressage Accademy page for flat exercises but haven't found one for grids etc yet. I've been doing raised walk poles in hand before our hack day too so will start doing them ridden and incorporating transitions as we progress. He is very light in the hand...

Hi all, Can you give me your favourite grid/cavaletti exercises to build strength and push behind? I have a new 5 year old that I've bought for dressage but I'd like to keep his schooling interesting and not too intense. He is a very competent jumper but I am not hugely brave, so just looking...

Very, very normal. I doubt you will find a better yard. Although I am impressed that you have so many within 30 mins!

Yes, I think this is the way. I will have to learn to do these plaits 😭

Having been for a lesson today, consensus is big dressage plaits and suck it up! I will have to lose my love of small eventing plaits and embrace sewing. Or maybe quikknots if they work?!

I will experiment at the weekend and see if I can get this to work

Noooooo! I sort of want to but I don't think i can bring myself to! What if it looks terrible and I have to do 12 months growing it out while it just sticks up in the air?!

I totally could but I think it's too dense. It's not that long at the moment but there is so much of it, and it is wild and free! I think both solo comb and scissors may make it worse!

Don't, the temptation is very real!! The only thing stopping me is the fact my trainer may refuse to ever teach me again 🤣

Maybe not when I do them though! They are plenty smart enough for dressage, really nice.

I've seen this before actually! Thanks for the video, I will take a look. Maybe the way is to let the mane get longer and do this with it. We do Working Equitation so maybe this will suit, even though he's not Iberian.

Yours looks very smart! I dare not trim mine short at the moment as I think it will just stick straight up!!

Oh god, I can see myself removing a lot of mane here! I think he has a very wide crest so I'm worried it will look odd. It also splits each side so looks very wild! Can you see the hogged bit when you plait? I'm worried my hands are too shaky to get a nice even line 🙈🤣

I'm hoping the hive mind here can help with this, I've recently bought a new horse, nicely bred, very classy, elegant but with the mane of a Highland Pony!! I have nothing against Highland Ponies but I wouldn't want to have to put dressage plaits in them!! I am used to a mane that I can chuck...

Wow! That is a great write up, thank you so much for making the effort. My new horse arrived today (on my birthday!) so I am re-motivated again and did a few minutes of clicker with him today to give him the idea. Really interesting to read the BAM write up, it sounds like he mixes methods a...