How To Start Half Steps In Hand With Your Dressage Horse

Every Friday we try to post some homework for the weekend here at Dressage Hub. Usually it is a trot pole exercise that you can do with your horse to mix things up. Today we are going to do something a little bit different to help you break the boredom of the winter blues with training your dressage horse.
This in hand dressage exercise to help you introduce the half steps to your dressage horse can be done with a horse that is currently schooling or training dressage at a lower level. In fact, that is the perfect time to start to introduce this exercise so that your horse is ready for it as you progress up the levels in dressage.
The in-hand dressage work will not only help you with piaffe and passsage at the higher levels but it will help you with canter pirouettes and the rest of the collected work that is required of an upper level dressage horse.
This simple training exercise will only take you ten minutes but the results will benefit you and your dressage horse for a lifetime.
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[@emmawillard1832]

The point of the exercise should be: explaining to the horse to stop into the outside hind and go forward with the inside hind. Slow down stop into the outside, forward upward engage with the inside hind. Stopping the horse onto his forehand is the opposite of explaining to him that bringing his haunches under himself is the lesson. With the head and neck too low, the horse has no choice: the horse cannot use the head and neck as a lever against the quarters -- relative elevation -- when the poll is at or below the withers. Thus it stops into and onto a foreleg instead of into and onto the outside hind. The point of half steps -- from the very beginning -- is to explain to the horse that his haunches are the power to stop and to advance. That exercise alone prompts and promotes supple hips and supple hips prompt and promote range of motion in the joints below the hips.

[@maloryp4]

In 2022, being a pro in horses, and still not knowing that patting a horse on the neck like that is certainly not a praise, is.... pathetic and sad

[@Hannahs_Mustangs]

Ay, this is awesome! I was just wondering how to start this with my mustang! Thank you!!

[@betsysmall3576]

Who is this?

[@sarathompson2748]

Henry Boswell.

[@jessallies1]

Henry Boswell