Dyslexia and dressage

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hi guys i am dyslexic and would eventually like to do some dressage and eventually do some eventing at intro and if im brave pre novice . The problem is i struggle with remembering the order of the markers and the test itsself due to my crap memory.

Is any you guys dyslexic and if so how do you learn test. Also how do non dyslexic people learn tests
 
I'm not dyslexic, although I am dyspraxic. I've always learnt dressage tests as patterns- either on paper or by trotting round the living room- I never bothered with the letters. It actually worked pretty well, as at a PC competition years ago they put the letters the wrong way round! The people who learnt the tests based on the letters all went horribly wrong and those who learnt a pattern all got it right. Well' up til the point they realised the problem and corrected it, anyway.
 
I can't do it from the letters either, and I also partly learn the tests with patterns (and running about in circles in the kitchen).

Drawing it out helps a lot (or those nice laminated diagrams from BD) but mostly I learn it a bit at at time, sort of short hand:

Up CL turn Right,
Circle in the middle
Change long Diag - bottom to top,
Canter before the 1/4 marker,
Circle in the middle again
etc
As the entrance is at A (bottom) and the judge at C (top) you don't even have to be able to have those 2.

I write that out with a daigram of the arena in front of me to make sure I get it right, then after that the letters are irelevant.

Also it helps to think in broad terms - do all the trot work is 1st, then the canter, canter change rein is through free walk,
Or - trot right, canter right, walk, canter left, trot left. That sort of thing, it gives a rough summary of the test that sort of creates a framework to build the detail onto.

Hope this helps a bit, GL with it.
 
Can you remember a rhyme? Sorry if that is a stupid question but I don't know much about dyslexia. So I remember where the place markers are by - All King Edwards Horse Can Make Big Fences. (coming in at A and going clockwise) - and I learn my tests by drawing them anyway.

Dressage tests tend to replicate patterns and repeat on each rein. Could you learn it if was read out to you? You can have your tests read for pure dressage but not for eventing, but the good news for eventing is - once you have learnt a test, it tends to the same one for the rest of the season (worth checking of course but thats what normally happens)
 
i found breaking each movement down, and drawing it out, and then got one of those dressage boards that you can draw on and wipe off, then just practice, practice, practice. good luck :)
 
im not dyslexic, but i get really confused if i have to learn a test by remembering markers too, so i remember the patterns. :) much much easier
 
Abismal short term memory right here!!

Learn patterns and shapes rather than *this letter to this letter = this movement*
 
im mildly dyslexic, Im also a teacher. I find it really hard to memorise a test and I have someone calling for me at the moment.Im working with a white board and pen,drawing it out and also walk through it in my living room. I'm finding splitting the test into 4 sections helps and have a 'prompt' in your mind that you use to move onto the next section.
 
I draw the test out and just learn the movements! Its more difficult and means having the test called isnt very helpfull but def possible! Does make lessons interesting though :)
 
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