Best first medium...?

[Ellie2893]

What medium would everyone suggest would be the best first one for me to try...?

What are the hardest movements involved as well (before I buy the sheets!)

Thanks

 

[ihatework]

It's probably worth buying the sheets TBH. Surely it will kind of depend on what movements your horse finds easier/harder and how they are sequenced within the test.

FWIW I'm just about to embark on my first mediums - I personally prefer to ride in 20x60 so have discounted all the 20x40 without even looking at them.
Of the 20x60 tests, I think it was M61 that flowed the nicest, as it is I'm doing M69 which also flows well. Has walk piri's, and also trot HP from corner to X and then a 10m circle 'the wrong way' if you know what I mean - so from L HP to R circle. The canter HP is just easy tear drop.

 

[dressagecrazy]

M61 is the easiest for rider & horse. It's a nice gentle Medium test with nothing to hard. No Travers, No walk Piri's, but there is ext Canter & Ext Trot. This is all from memory so i could be wrong.

 

[sarahhelen1977]

I've done a grand total of 3 mediums, and have done M61 twice. It's a nice test with nothing too taxing. The most difficult thing I found was riding the ext canter on the diagonal, without getting a change!