Hollyanna
Well-Known Member
I am looking for online videos to help with my dressage training - exercises, tips etc. I signed up for the one where you pay monthly to watch the training videos, but have found them pretty unhelpful to be honest - they show professionals on their own horses who naturally really move or for the most part are "built the right way" and have been trained by said professional from when they were backed. They show an exercise to help say - engage the hind quarters and develop a more expressive trot and then hey presto the horse is suddenly trotting around with this magnificent trot - which of course it will because it's been trained to do this from the start.
I go off and try the exercise and my lovely beast dreams up some sort of evasion or other interesting answer! It would be great to see a professional training an ordinary horse, working through the problems that might arise and how to deal with them - possibly sitting on a clients horse or something similar. There was a brilliant video of Charlotte riding a young pupils horse in a demo and I found this really inspiring watching her figuring the horse out and how to improve it - why aren't there more videos like this?
My own story - I have a homebred horse that I am just starting to compete at advanced medium - we've figured our way along and worked up the levels, having to undo bad habits and things we've learnt wrong along the way. I have regular lessons but it would be brilliant to watch some training videos like this. We're never going to set the world on fire (happy if I get over 60% at this level!) and in my tests I always get "needs to sit more" or "to take more weight behind" (usually followed by an eye roll when I read my sheets - same old - same old!) - I'm pretty sure her front legs are a few inches shorter than her back legs - she's certainly croup high so feel like I am fighting a loosing battle before I start - but I adore her and just want to be the best we can be! If I could have millions of lessons i would, but time / money llimit me to one or two a month (particularly at £60 a shot, plus entries etc it soon ads up!) we will get there one day but need all the help I can get!
Does anyone know where I can find videos like this? TIA!
I go off and try the exercise and my lovely beast dreams up some sort of evasion or other interesting answer! It would be great to see a professional training an ordinary horse, working through the problems that might arise and how to deal with them - possibly sitting on a clients horse or something similar. There was a brilliant video of Charlotte riding a young pupils horse in a demo and I found this really inspiring watching her figuring the horse out and how to improve it - why aren't there more videos like this?
My own story - I have a homebred horse that I am just starting to compete at advanced medium - we've figured our way along and worked up the levels, having to undo bad habits and things we've learnt wrong along the way. I have regular lessons but it would be brilliant to watch some training videos like this. We're never going to set the world on fire (happy if I get over 60% at this level!) and in my tests I always get "needs to sit more" or "to take more weight behind" (usually followed by an eye roll when I read my sheets - same old - same old!) - I'm pretty sure her front legs are a few inches shorter than her back legs - she's certainly croup high so feel like I am fighting a loosing battle before I start - but I adore her and just want to be the best we can be! If I could have millions of lessons i would, but time / money llimit me to one or two a month (particularly at £60 a shot, plus entries etc it soon ads up!) we will get there one day but need all the help I can get!
Does anyone know where I can find videos like this? TIA!