Thank you Excellent information

Damn this judge is extremely critical nitpicky and there's no kindness or gentleness in his voice. He needs to work on it 5

Dude I’ve never done dressage I’m a jumper but a ton of my friends want me to enter a dressage show. It’s gonna be so bad but so fun lol. Hope I get an easy test.

Beautiful!

The 20m circles look like eggs.make them more round

Now this is correct 😊 lovely, soft and supple

Thank you SO much for that, very informative. I don't do dressage, but I enjoy watching it and that stage always looked so boring.

Fantastic video, thank you for sharing these comments

Nice to hear these comments from a judge. Conversely, here are some from a rider who is striving to train her horse classically correct: wishing that judges would stop rewarding horses with ridiculously high scores who clearly are not working over their backs but deceive by showing us their flashy movement (huge dips behind the saddle and diagonal pairs at the trot not in alignment as tell tale signs), necks sucked back into their shoulders with some showing a break at the 3rd vertebrae, and piaffe and passage pathetically hollow, legs stabbing the ground, with little or no thrust coming from behind. Please pass this on to your fellow judges.

This poor horse is running from the man's hand. the rider is a head of the horse. And the horse is hollow in the back. I could say more I won't.

man that was boring as hell

I hate life because of fear/guilt.Fear has many forms such as anxiety, anger, confusion, doubt, ego.

Thanks for the video, I am doing this test in 2 weeks as my first dressage show and I wanted to see what it looked like, I already memorized it in like 20 minutes hahaha. So thanks.

Hey, nice video! Thanks

This really helped me with my essay! Thank you!

great horse, needs to be straighter. great mover too

So helpful thanks

Yes, Starr Vaughn generously provided their facility for us to tape this ride and others in the 2011 On the Levels.

Is this at Starr Vaughn?

youre right, it is correct to halt at the riders knee but at this level it doesnt really matter, and if you read the test its not really what the judge is looking for. They want a steady tempo, round circles, a balanced horse + rider with a good seat + quiet hands who uses her aids correctly. The point of this level is to build the confidence of the horse/rider, and is not usually used in competition so it is used to introduce the team to memorize a test and the sport of dressage/ a ring.

Great rider, beautiful horse!

These are from the New 2011 tests, the 20 meter circles are also at A and C now

What year is that intro test for? I thought on intro tests that the 20m circle is at b and e only.

Thank you for sharing your wonderful knowledge! Can I ask a question? When you halt at X, should you halt at X with horse front feet or halt at X at rider's knee

I'm totally in this video. I rode in the clinic. They didn't put my horse in the video. :( haha