Improving Your Preliminary Dressage Marks

Learn how you can get those extra marks and what judges are looking for in your Preliminary tests.

Vanessa is all about getting the basics fully established to lay the foundations of later training. Riding accurately in your every day training to help create balance in your horse.

As part of season two Vanessa runs us through some of the preliminary movements and gives us tips and ideas on how to get those extra marks in your test.

Here is a wee snippet from the video in season two running through preliminary movements and what she focuses on. Watch what ingredients come to play as Vanessa rides her young Jade through the movements.

In Vanessa Way’s season two program ‘Mastering Your Dressage Movements’, she runs you through the ingredients for a good preliminary test and why working on those basics every day matters.

See first-hand each horse and watch how Vanessa works on each individual’s strengths and weaknesses to create balance no matter the age and stage of the horse.

See first-hand what to expect, what commonly goes wrong, how to overcome obstacles and how to improve your marks so you can shine in the competition arena.

Get access to the full video plus over 4 hours of Vanessa’s teaching with her season two online training program ‘Mastering Your Dressage Movements.’

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Check out all of Vanessa’s online programs here

Want to improve your dressage riding off your horse?

Check out our sister site Dressageridertraining.com

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