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Connected Dressage
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Registrace 25. 07. 2014
Connection. Lightness. Balance! Celie Weston is a Classical Dressage Trainer, Instructor and Life Coach who inspires horses and riders all over the world to find harmony and balance together through the Art of Riding in Lightness. Originally from Denmark/Scandinavia, Celie has traveled the world and lived in many different countries from Europe to Australia, the Middle East and now the US. Celie has been featured several times in various TV shows documenting her work with rehabilitating and training horses. As a columnist, Celie was a featured writer for Horseman’s News and the PRE Magazine - the latter focusing on the PRE in art.
HOW TO AVOID BRACE OR BTV WHEN YOU TAKE CONTACT
To avoid the horse bracing against the hand and the contact avoid pulling directly back on the reins. Instead lift one rein and ask for lateral flexion. The bend supples the horse and eliminates brace.
Once you have lateral bend, yoou can squeeze both reins to ask for the horse to give poll flexion (but stay bent whilst doing it) and if the horse doesn't come into frame avoid pulling the horse into frame, simply use your voice, seat or legs to tuck the pelvis and drive the horse over the topline into the bridle and onto the bit.
Always follow any poll flexion with a neck extension, no matter the length of the frame. A neck extension doesn't mean "long and low" it means lengthening the space between the vertebrae and keeping the throat latch open. If you for example have a collected frame, you would simply give your elbows an inch forward every few seconds to "stretch" the neck slightly.
To fix Behind the vertical BTV
1. Lift up the nose (bring your hands forward)
2. lift up the withers (bring your hands over the withers)
3. Create lateral flexion
4. Ask for poll flexion with lateral flexion
5. Give neck extension (stretch the neck slightly forward)
Once you have lateral bend, yoou can squeeze both reins to ask for the horse to give poll flexion (but stay bent whilst doing it) and if the horse doesn't come into frame avoid pulling the horse into frame, simply use your voice, seat or legs to tuck the pelvis and drive the horse over the topline into the bridle and onto the bit.
Always follow any poll flexion with a neck extension, no matter the length of the frame. A neck extension doesn't mean "long and low" it means lengthening the space between the vertebrae and keeping the throat latch open. If you for example have a collected frame, you would simply give your elbows an inch forward every few seconds to "stretch" the neck slightly.
To fix Behind the vertical BTV
1. Lift up the nose (bring your hands forward)
2. lift up the withers (bring your hands over the withers)
3. Create lateral flexion
4. Ask for poll flexion with lateral flexion
5. Give neck extension (stretch the neck slightly forward)
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Beautifully explained. I often feel my ride is determined by the first taking of contact.
Try this when they come behind: in a relaxed rhythm, add leg & push your hands forward with the feeling in the hand like you are throwing a sheet over bed. Also, lovely pony :)
Great idea. Your horse seems little tense- which makes him stiff. Would rather see a video with handler being more aware of how they hold lead/ touch horse and notice where the horse is.
Dressage pony!!! but how do you do this on 16.3h?
Very intuitive & helpful. 👍🏼
Great video - thanks. My worry is that the cue for lifting the leg is similar to the cue for just picking the feet out. My mare learns so fast I’m worried she’ll be bowing every time I’m picking her feet out or the farrier comes! Am I worrying unnecessarily?
My horse moves his hind end when I turn his head. He also tries to resist by tossing his head.
That's amazing.
well done..
So lovely. I was watching your long rieining instruction but unable to comment. What is "jo flexion" please ? You said it 3 times...!!!
Hey! The word I’m saying is “Jaw Flexion” - teaching the horse to flex his jaw allows him mobilize his tongue, swallow and free his sternum in order to lift his back. To learn more about jaw Flexion you can download my free Ebook on the subject here artfulriding.thinkific.com/courses/jawflexion
Aldo does the same thing close to fence! Drives me nuts. Maybe we need to make a big sand pit out in the middle of the field for them to roll in. 😂
I don’t think it’s bareback (no hate)
You’re right, we meant bareback pad 😊
Oh ok! I just thought I saw a saddle 😂 I have really bad vision!😂
@@Leah_six It is a Christ Lammfelle (sheepskin) bareback pad - it's wonderful to ride in. You can attach stirrups to it as I have in this video.
@@ConnectedDressage ohh ok! I’ll have to look into buying one!
What a sweet gentleman’s ❤ 🐴
Now. THIS. Is how to weave poles. 😎
Aww
No more licking *Horse : Plotting on how to lick the camera again
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would have the horse standing square (as much as possible) while stretching her neck like this :-)
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Hello how are you hope you guys doing good
Right, so I tapped his leg and got nothing! Not a blink. No reaction! I decided then to tap and pick up his foot. Is that the right or wrong thing to do?
I tap my colt on the back of his leg to get him to stand up for halter. When I started I tapped on the bottom of his leg but now we have moved up to the top near his girth area. Have you ever taught this to a horse and use the tapping cue when they already have a tapping cue that means something else?
Love these videos very help ful easy to understand.
My horse likes to side step so I put her up against the fence but now everytime she shifts her weight back she steps back with the other one, wondering what I could do to fix that
I’m really enjoying your videos!
Excellent demonstration!
Brilliant video!! So helpful!
Great video and stunning horse! I'm currently trying to teach a horse to bow, but when I hold his leg and ask him to shift his weight back he will actually put weight into the hand holding his leg and try to walk backwards. Obviously I can't hold his weight and end up having to break it off. I don't really want to use ropes/tie him up. Do you have any tips?
Get his but up against a fence. Dont pick up his leg just lure him with a treat between his two front legs to get used to shifting the weight back. Once he is good at that without backing than pick uo his leg(fence still behind him) eventually leave the fence
The magic spot was impossible to see because Kathy was in the way
Great video, I chanced on this in a search, and it addresses several issues I am dealing with. Great visual and thank you!