First Level Test One The new 2019 -2021 USEF Intro through Fourth Level Dressage Tests effective December 1, 2018 are available on the USDF website here. In First Level Test 1, the pattern is essentially the same as the previous First Level Test One, except now all the lengthenings are longer. In movement 5, the […]
INTRO AND TRAINING LEVEL The new 2019 -2021 USEF Intro through Fourth Level Dressage Tests effective December 1, 2018 are available at https://www.usdf.org/downloads/forms/2019.asp I know all competitors have been waiting anxiously for the new tests. Those of you traveling to Florida soon will be showing these tests starting December 1 of this year. This blog is […]
. . AADA makes a splash at Dressage at Devon. A record number of amateur entries in the AA division. If it’s Dressage at Devon on the East Coast it must mean rain. Well it did rain as usual but not during the AADA morning breakfast meeting on September 29. The meeting was very timely as, […]
Lisa SchmidtUSEF ‘S’ Dressage Judge : FEI Trainer : AADA Founder TRAINING THE MOVEMENTS SERIES Other movements in Second Level which have coefficients are the canter serpentines of equal loops on both leads. The movement in box #20 reads “C-A Serpentine three equal loops width of the arena, no change of lead.” For this movement […]
Lisa SchmidtUSEF ‘S’ Dressage Judge : FEI Trainer : AADA Founder TRAINING THE MOVEMENTS SERIES In Second Level test 3, there are 7 out of 27 movements which have coefficients. One movement is the free walk, which I covered in the first Training Level blog. This blog is about movements 13 and 14, the half […]
Lisa SchmidtUSEF ‘S’ Dressage Judge : FEI Trainer : AADA Founder TRAINING THE MOVEMENTS SERIES The next coefficient movements at First Level test 3 are the canter loops on the right lead and on the left. The movements are #15 and #20. “K-X-H One loop maintaining the right lead” and “H-X-K One loop maintaining the […]
Lisa SchmidtUSEF ‘S’ Dressage Judge : FEI Trainer : AADA Founder TRAINING THE MOVEMENTS SERIES In First Level Test 3 there are five coefficient movements. Two I reviewed in the Training Level blogs; the Free Walk and the Stretch Circle. The three others are the halt at X facing B, and the two canter loops. […]
Lisa SchmidtUSEF ‘S’ Dressage Judge : FEI Trainer : AADA Founder TRAINING THE MOVEMENTS SERIES “How To Improve your Regional Championship Score” Welcome back to the series, Improving your Regional Championship Score.At Training Level the other movement with a coefficient of two is Movement #12, “B Circle right 20 meters in rising trot allowing the […]
Lisa SchmidtUSEF ‘S’ Dressage Judge : FEI Trainer : AADA Founder TRAINING THE MOVEMENTS SERIES As many competitors prepare for the USDF/Great American Insurance Group Regional Championships, there are several little tips at each level that can help riders improve their scores and achieve the opportunity to participate in the coveted victory gallop or victory […]
Timmie Pollock, Ph. D , C.C. – AASP Equestrian Athlete Sport Psychologist Your Horse Is Your Mirror Series KNOW YOURSELF THROUGH YOUR HORSE The examples that I have described are just a few of the many I have come across in which a person’s thoughts or beliefs interfere with their enjoyment of or progress […]