Half Circle - Please explain

[vicm2509]

Ok I may sound a little dumb but I have never done dressage before in my life and I am about to start.

Ive been looking through the tests and they all seem fairly straight forward (well the prelim ones do anyway) but im a little confused about half circles.

Starting on the left rein can anyoneone please draw me a diagram of this:

BX - Half circle left 10 meters
XE - Half circle right 10 meters

Its off the prelim 4 test if that helps.

Im not actually doing prelim 4, im doing 7 & 10 but there are half circles in 10 aswell, aarrrggghhh. I dont have a clue where i am supposed to return to the track!

Thanks

 

[PaddyMonty]

Just imagine riding an S on its side from B to E.
Just remember to give yourself a stride or two straight over X to re-balance the horse and change the bend.

 

[K9Wendy]

In Prelim 10 it looks like an 'S' going across school from B to E if you can visualise that.

 

[vicm2509]

So it kind of goes B,G, X then X, D, E? Or do would that be too big?

Or is it more like B, I, X then X, L, E which would mean the S shape goes the other way?

 

[KatB]

Imagine you are doing a 10 metre circle at B, then when you hit X change the rein and do a ten metre circle from X, going striaght when you hit the track. Its just a way of changing the rein.

 

[TGM]

Might be worth subscribing to

www.dressagediagrams.com

They do some great diagrams of all the different tests.

 

[xxcharlottexx]

very very quick diagram but hopefully you can get the idea...

the black lines are meant to join up and pass through X
but as i say it was rushed