Thank you Alicia 👍 I wonder if you please could explain a bit more about how to “open the door “ - how much exactly I can give without throwing all the energy away 😅 Thank you in advance
Hello Alicia, your videos really helped me a lot. May I ask how we can do half-halt in trot? And how we can do to transit from extended trot to collected trot? Thank you! Erica
Hi Erica, Great question! The half halt is that very elusive aid that everyone talks about but don't really know how to do! There isn't an exact science with the half halt, it's a constant readjustment of the body. Whenever we are readjusting the body, we are leading with the shoulders. So wherever the shoulders are, the rest of the body follows. For example - if the right shoulder is falling out, the quarters are likely to be trailing left. What the half halt is, is the constant readjustment of the shoulders, every single step of the way. In trot, in walk, in canter - it's all the same. How do you adjust from the extended trot to collected trot, shows the need to understand the training scale. A way to look at the extended trot from the collected trot is merely a longer collected trot. The collection still remains, we are just asking the horse to take less steps. Eg. across the diagonal in the collected trot, you might do 50 steps (just an example to explain what I mean, these figures aren't exact), but in extended trot, you might try to make that 20 steps. It's not faster, the level of collection doesn't change, it's simply that the horse is taking a bigger or a smaller step. This is where the training scale comes in so amazingly. If you add rhythm, suppleness and connection into impulsion straightness and collection, you equal these things automatically. Then when you add the half halt (i.e. shoulder control) you now have control of this. The Dressage Institute program explains this very well, and because this is such a great question, I would love to give you 1 week free of the program so you can get in there, watch the videos, ask questions live and really delve into the competency based learning that is the Dressage Institute. (contact the team at hello@dressageinstitute.com to get your 1 week membership sorted).
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Thank you Alicia 👍 I wonder if you please could explain a bit more about how to “open the door “ - how much exactly I can give without throwing all the energy away 😅 Thank you in advance
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Hello Alicia, your videos really helped me a lot.
May I ask how we can do half-halt in trot? And how we can do to transit from extended trot to collected trot?
Thank you!
Erica
Hi Erica,
Great question! The half halt is that very elusive aid that everyone talks about but don't really know how to do!
There isn't an exact science with the half halt, it's a constant readjustment of the body. Whenever we are readjusting the body, we are leading with the shoulders. So wherever the shoulders are, the rest of the body follows. For example - if the right shoulder is falling out, the quarters are likely to be trailing left. What the half halt is, is the constant readjustment of the shoulders, every single step of the way.
In trot, in walk, in canter - it's all the same. How do you adjust from the extended trot to collected trot, shows the need to understand the training scale.
A way to look at the extended trot from the collected trot is merely a longer collected trot. The collection still remains, we are just asking the horse to take less steps.
Eg. across the diagonal in the collected trot, you might do 50 steps (just an example to explain what I mean, these figures aren't exact), but in extended trot, you might try to make that 20 steps. It's not faster, the level of collection doesn't change, it's simply that the horse is taking a bigger or a smaller step.
This is where the training scale comes in so amazingly. If you add rhythm, suppleness and connection into impulsion straightness and collection, you equal these things automatically. Then when you add the half halt (i.e. shoulder control) you now have control of this. The Dressage Institute program explains this very well, and because this is such a great question, I would love to give you 1 week free of the program so you can get in there, watch the videos, ask questions live and really delve into the competency based learning that is the Dressage Institute. (contact the team at hello@dressageinstitute.com to get your 1 week membership sorted).
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