Group+1+-+Dressage

===Dressage is a competition form, which the horse’s obedience, agility movements, physics and abilities assessed, as the rider line-up and work with the horse considered by the judges. The exercises will be carried out in an appropriate form, which is based on the horse's natural conditions.===

===This discipline has often been compared to classical ballet and is often described as the world's hardest sport because it requires so many wonderful qualities of both horse and rider. During the competition rice program, in which different gaits and exercises will be judged based on a point scale between 1-10. The overall impression of the horse judged, and certain exercises are considered especially difficult or decisive.===




 * ===Dressage is an advanced and difficult branch. You will be frustrated at yourself and your horse if you do not make things right, you want to give up, you’ll be so disappointed when you've struggled and practiced so long to 'no avail'. I've been through all that, but when we've mastered it, and things begin to loosen, then it’s the best feeling in the world. The fact that you can cope with being in the 500 kg to dance and go exactly as you request, it’s huge, and that’s a feeling that is worth all the hard work!===

===Many think dressage is boring, no action. You just sit there and say "go". They are quite wrong, it requires very much, and not least, it's so great to watch, the harmony between a horse and rider, they become one!===

===Before I got my own horse, I rode on an old dressage horse who’s 18 years old. In his younger days he had compete in st. Georg classes, and he has extremely nice movements. But he wasn’t easy to ride, I struggled for a year to get in touch with him at all, the first few months I demanded nothing of him. Gradually I began to demand things of him, I began to collect him, when it began, he would challenge me, and it wasn’t the easiest I have experienced. He stood on his hind legs for about a whole hour, and just backed right into the fence, steeply and threw himselves around, I fell off him 2 times, but climbed up again, because this was very important to not lose. The last miuntes it was quite extreme, until suddenly he gave up. After that he behaved like an angel, was super kind with me, we worked well, and it seemed that he enjoyed working.=== ===Now, I got my own horse, who is quite different from the other horse. And we have much to learn, bough of us. But we doing well for now, and I am extremely happy for him, it’s my dream horse. And I hope we’ll get many, many years of memories.===



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 * =====-Elisabeth=====

dressage is all about interaction between horse and rider,

media type="youtube" key="KCcDmz0tNRA" height="344" width="425" This is just basic dressage. ||