Dressage: Foundation for All Riding Disciplines
Lesson Eight Quiz
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TRUE OR FALSE:
1. There is only one true way to perform a shoulder-in.
True False
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2. Your leg asks the horse to rein-back.
3. Do not drop your hips; they must always stay level.
4. 9 O’ clock is on your left side.
5. If you are correct, your left hip will be on 8, and the right on 2 for a slight bend to the left.
6. In a counter-bend, the horse must always look to the inside.
7. There are 2 tracks made when performing a shoulder-in the way the Spanish Riding School teaches it.
8. You cannot trot a horse when doing a counter-bend.
9. When you drop one hip it sends the horse in the opposite direction.
10. The leg yield is the most classical exercise of laterals.
11. It takes years to train a horse up through the levels.
12. In a rein-back you need to have the horse's rib cage into your inside leg.
13. A horse must gain speed to be able to counter-bend on the circle. True False
14. Always be sure that the horse's center of gravity is in his forehand.
15. Any horse can back up correctly if you hold his head in.
16. The leg yield creates wonderful bend in the horse's joints.
17. In the rein-back, the horse steps back with each foot at a time like the walk.
18. When doing the pelvic roll, clock exercise, be sure to keep contact with the saddle as you rotate your pelvic around the "clock".
19. When you drop one hip, the other hip lightens.
20. Lengthening is very important in these exercises.
TASKS:
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1. Borrow, buy, or go to a gym and use an exercise ball to practice the clock exercise enough to write about it. Explain what the ball tells you about your body. Apply this to your riding and explain in essay form your observations about your riding and also your horse's performance.
2. Go to a Dressage show, or the dressage portion of an Eventing show, and write an essay of your observations. (Try to watch the warm ups, too, if possible.) What movements do you recognize? What behaviors do you see? Did anything make an impression on you? etc…
3. Borrow or rent videos of competitions in dressage. They can be Olympic or local, regular or musical kurs (dressage staged to music), but be sure they are not instruction videos. Observe, then contrast and compare what you see. It is good to see what your developing eye notices. Explain in essay form.
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