Dressage Help!

[Ilovemyponyapril]

I have just started to do dressage with my pony april. She's ok at it but she such prefeers more get-up-and-go types, i.e. xc, sj.

Any ideas on how i can make her enjoy it more (and me!)

And she isn't that great at holding her head...any training ideas or anything like that would also be really useful!

Thanks
Ilovemyponyapril

 

[*hic*]

To help her enjoy it more don't get into the arena and think right, now we're going to concentrate on dressage for forty minutes. Break it up a bit for her and remember that if she's working differently she will be using muscles she's not used to using and will get sore and tired if you push her for too long.

Ask your instructor what a sensible schooling plan might be for when you are in the arena and to show you what exercises you can do when you're hacking out to help her build the appropriate muscles without being in the arena and getting bored and fed up.

 

[Ilovemyponyapril]

ok