If you don’t ride dressage, chances are you have questions about it, all of those fancy moves & lead changes with every stride? The video below offers a quick look at what dressage is & provides a little bit of information about the discipline.
This video is a short clip, but it may surprise you how beneficial much of the dressage work can be. Helpful in increasing both flexibility & athleticism of your animal, as well as enhancing the relationship between you and your mount. If you find dressage interesting you may want to check out some of the discipline terminology, A – E, F – O & P – W (yes there really is that much of it, so start studying them now!).
Do you dressage? Or have you considered adding some of the dressage moves to your practice routine? I’d love to hear how you incorporate dressage into your discipline.
I am very lucky to be at a Riding Stable that has two (!) Olympians there; Cindy and Neil Ishoy. I have seen them around, along with there fabulous horses. Both are Canadian. Neil Ishoy is not as well know as his wife, Cindy Ishoy. According to the Canadian Olympic Committee, he was to participate in the 1980 games in Moscow, but did not participate. On the other hand, his wife, Cindy Ishoy, is much better know. Cindy Ishoy was in 6 Olympic games, not participating to two (1980 in Moscow, and 1976 in Montreal), but on her very first Olympic games (1970, Munich) she ranked 6th in team Dressage, but was eliminated in Individual Dressage. She got a bronze and fourth at the 1988 Seoul, 10 and 34 at the 1992 Barcelona games, and 31 and 9 in the 2004 games in Athens.