Dressage Rough Draft

Dressage, It actually has nothing to do with dresses or dressing. Many people have no idea what dressage is. Dressage actually involves training a horse. There are many steps to training horses dressage which depends on the horse's age, breed, and demeanor. First, you would start out picking out a horse that will fit your needs and wants. If you're a “green rider” you wouldn’t want to get a “green horse” because it would create a lot of frustration because a “green horse” has little or no training and only been training for about 1-2 years so with a “green rider” with little experience or almost none. If you can’t train or if you don’t want to train, you should be looking at how the horse is schooled in dressage, barrel running, and show horses. If you're looking for a challenge to train a horse or you're an expert, you would try a barrel racing horse, a barrel horse would be hard because all they want to do is run and go faster than …show more content…
“The walk” is slow, natural and flat- footed 4-gait, “The Trot” is a 4-gait between a walk and a run, “The Canter” is a 4-gait where each foot hit the ground independently, “The Piaffe” is a trot in place, “The Passage” ‘slow motion’ trot and have to prolong the legs off the ground, “The Pirouette” It’s a canter on a circle and stays center on one stop, “The Levade” It’s where forelegs are raised and the haunches are bent. There are many causes and effects that dressage has on horses. “The “combined Effect” pressing down on his/her back with the stick cues “stand”, after you stop giving the cue, in this event the way to signal the horse to stop is to use the combined effect”(Kali, 1:04-1:13). “The Balancera” helps calm down a horse’s when he/her nerves are significantly high. While you're considering the horse’s nature, how old it is and what type of horse you have will determine the style in which they learn