2016 West Coast Dressage Convention - Four Year Old, balance, stretch, steadiness

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Adelinde Cornelissen leads an excellent session on working with a four year old mare just beginning her promising career. It's so exciting to see how her insightful instruction can help this pair develop their balance and confidence in this fundamental critical work! The total running time of this three part video is 34:00.

Adeline starts off talking about how important it is to start out with a goal. - Part 1 ( 0:08:49)

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Adeline starts off talking about how important it is to start out with a goal. She encourages the rider to sit up tall and stay balanced so her horse can balance. She touches on how important the walk is for the stretching and relaxation during periods of rest and also to get the horse supple.

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Adeline begins working on the downward transition from trot to walk. - Part 2 ( 0:12:44)

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Adeline begins working on the downward transition from trot to walk. The horse wants to hide and be deep. She encourages the rider to let go so the horse holds herself in the balance. This horse tends to trot immediately after being patted. They move onto the canter working on the same thing, letting go without getting any faster and keeping the horse underneath you.

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Adeline begins this part talking about her background with sports and how that is so important to riders. - Part 3 ( 0:12:28)

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Adeline begins this part talking about her background with sports and how that is so important to riders. She also discusses the mental aspect of riding and the little things you can do to improve your riding off horseback. They begin riding again, still working on getting the horse to balance underneath the rider and to stay steady. At the very end they discuss how to improve the riders position.

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