How does everyone approach training for a specific dressage test? I'd love to hear some ideas, tips and tricks. I decided I'd go for a whole-part-whole approach. So I learnt the test on paper first then I thought I'd run Estrid through it without any schooling and film it to see where we're at. Then I can break it down into skills/parts and focus my training on them before putting it all back together the week before our competition.
Ironically my competition is actually Intro C now but it won't have done us any harm to have a go at Intro A and I've only spent one training session on it. Looking at them, I think that C might actually be easier as the 10m half circles in working trot in Intro A were actually quite tight and tricky! They share the same fundamentals with working trot, medium walk, free walk on a long rein. Intro A also has a serpentine and two 10m circles with a give of the inside rein.
I'm pretty sure that schooling the foundations are probably usually required before entering and training for dressage, but having a competition to go to gives me focus and having a test to focus on gives my training purpose and direction so actually I see it more of a training exercise in itself rather than getting competition ready.
At this point Estrid can slow down, go faster (but not canter to a leg command), go slower, stop, start and turn. As my dressage rider friend put it we're completing the actions without quality and that's 100% ok with me at the moment, I want to complete the movements, be able to do the tasks and then we can bring in the quality, starting with rhythm and then onto suppleness.
Having looked back through our first test run our main focus for now will be bringing the core up and lengthening through her back and to try and get a bigger difference between our medium walk and free walk head carriage.
Thanks for watching,
Beth
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