rider – A to Z Dressage

Ride for the Sake of the Horse — not Yours!

Don’t ride for the sake of riding, Ride to help your horse develop! by Rivkah Roth DO DNM “Like Rider like horse, like horse like rider” is a sentence I coined in the 1980s as an expression of the mutual influence on each other’s body, i.e. rider seat vs. horse movement and body use, and…
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The Failure of Dressage Judging

and how it may detrimentally influence today’s riding Style and training approaches. by Rivkah Roth DO DNM I have long said it, including postulating better eye schooling for the dressage judges and tips on how to get to a more correct eye in my reference handbook and teaching manual “A to Z Insights for Riders,…
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Eye Schooling

The dressage world is waking up by Rivkah Roth DO DNM A new generation of riders is looking to get trained along the classical criteria of systematic horse training as described by the Training Scale (Ausbildungsskala). Meanwhile, many of the international top riders still subscribe to shortcuts – possibly encouraged by dressage judges who fail…
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Correction Riding

An Advance Teaser from A to Z Insights for Riders, Trainers, and Coaches by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2020-10-21 on coachmetoo Correction riding is a highly specialized, often thankless, branch of correct dressage training. It would be wonderful if we wouldn’t need it, but sadly, we see more and more need for good correction…
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Rider’s A to Z Mini-Glossary #1

25 Days, 25 Letters of the Alphabet… by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2020-02-20 on coachmetoo By popular demand we republish a Rider’s A to Z Glossary of technical terms; a more or less alphabetical Series of rider expressions that, in form of a Rider’s Advent Calendar, Rivkah Roth wrote for and posted on her…
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Show Season Preparation

Seat Exercises on the Longeline by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-03-23 on coachmetoo If you haven’t done so yet this winter it is time for a few weeks of intensive seat exercises and a major “tool building” refresher Performing seat exercises on the longe for an elastic and balanced, independent seat requires an highly…
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The Rider’s Hand

(Not) for Debate – and not just for DQs: “Close your hand!” by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2015-01-16 on my Equiopathy facebook page and prompted by a paper linked to by that post. Equiopathy questioned: exactly, how?… and why? There is a lot more to closing a hand than simply a broad-statement request. 1)…
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Rider Sin #2: Thumbs up

The One Place where Thumbs Up are Unwanted! by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-11-21 on coachmetoo But that is exactly what I see more and more riders do in dressage and jumping. And it is so wrong on many levels. Growing up in a classically correct training environment it never occurred to me that…
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Rider Sin #1: Pulled-back Elbows

Or Why “We Can’t Ride on the Horse’s Head” by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-11-17 on coachmetoo A rider attempting to control the horse by its head – i.e. “hold” the horse by the bit, with running reins, or other contraptions – will fail because riding front-to-back is against the nature of our prey-animal…
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