I CANNOT RIDE THIS TOP DRESSAGE HORSE 

so funny 😂

Didn’t realise they’re so spicy to be honest 😂

😂🤣😂🤣

Him just noping out off canter was amazing, loveble doofus.

@@elphick.event.ponies barely contained chaos is what we like to say LOL

Mine is just like that at the beginning when I’m not warming him up the way he likes it 😂

He found everything funny 😂🤣😂 even when he was up, lmao I'm watching this again later too funny

Yes!! It’s genuinely adorable it makes me smile 😍 what a horse too 😍

Yes I really like watching Righ. He seems like a good time. Thise warmbloods are such characters. I died laughing when he kept hitting the brakes. Omg so funny and when he kicked out at Rich like a bratty little brother who just wants to do it himself. I have always loved the personalities of warmbloods. They're like 6 year old boys. Just always in trouble for something.and trying to sneak around or get away with things blaming it on a sibling who doesn't exist so in turn telling om themselves Or just doing it right in front of you to get a rise and then run away laughing. Ugh yeah. I do love a warmblood.

so annoying.

@@juliettedauterive3745 ?????

I couldn't get the dressage horse to canter the first time even...haha so I can relate.

I enjoyed your comment about having to get "into dressage" in order to ride that monster's trot...LOL. Hate to tell you but any warmblood "moving forward" at the trot almost requires dressage training as well as people who can help you with YOUR body and relaxation. It's so easy to tense up and so hard to relax and let go when riding. It literally takes years of work just on YOU. Best of luck and remember to enjoy each moment!

Thanks

He might be a good instructor, but I wouldn't let him ride my horse, he has no feel in his hands and ride rollkur, which is a weak hand position by the rider.

@@Galemor1 I think he's doing just fine without your armchair advice.

@@leslieranne8671 On his horses expense..

@@Galemor1 from what I saw, this isn’t rolkur. Rolkur is COMPLETELY different from what he’s doing, I think his horse is a little bit behind the vertical but thats not the same.

@@Galemor1that horses mouth is foaming so maybe but it doesn’t look like it to me

Hahahaha

This is honestly the best way to describe it 😂

A perfect analogy, well said.

@@elphick.event.ponies btw it was kinda nice to see someone so good at riding struggling to get a canter. Literally had the same problems with a dressage horse as well. The first time I got on I couldn't get a canter even if my life depended on it.

totally the horse is like ," what r you asking me to do?"

Awh thank you for this ❤️

Wow, wow, wow! Best experience to date.

Ì8

I agree!!! 😊

What an absolutely horgeous, well trained horse! Very impressed you conquered your fears and brought us this wonderful video. Thank you.👍But I do wonder how he would like to give up all the controlled movements and get to go galloping full out down a beach to his heart's content just once. Jesse Drent in Holland showed his Arabian mare on her 28th birthday doing just that! Actually that was pretty much her favorite gait her entire life. So much so that Jesse was the only one who felt safe riding her LOL 🐎😃

my horse is a dressage horse and not sassy at all.

That's where a weight cue comes in handy. I had a western trained horse who could go from a dead stop right into a canter just on how I adjusted my weight. It's a magical feeling 💖

@@SaccharinSweet123 I was just about to say this. My western horse whom I gotten into dressage training (his siblings are all jumping prospects lol but my boy knocked his dept perception off and can't get him used to big jumps besides two feet) he copied my friends dressage horse while I was working on his movements as a 3 year old and just started adding commands for the new gaits. My boy I taught from any gait was squeeze and kiss to go into a lope if I want a faster gait after the lope it's tap and kiss, clicking and taping also works. And he also know whoa is stop. He is a big gelding now but full of spark. He also knows lead changes. My dumbbutt while riding English forgets that I am suppose to plow rein him and not neck rein. Someone told me my gelding is nice and calm once and would be great for show jumping. Little do they know that Loki is a firecracker.

He said "don't ride him all fairy like" because coaches speak the truth

@@haeleighbrenneman7269 I agree! I have a coach with that type of humor, and he doesn’t mean it rudely, it’s simply the truth. No hate to Meg though, she is a great rider!

Awh thank you! Yeh the canter was a long time coming 😂

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It's not as easy as you'd think. I was on a 17.3hh Westphalen gelding out of the famed stallion Weltmeyer who did Intermediare I & II. He was a canter pirouette machine which were so fun. My trained did 1 tempis and passage on him. I just did 3 tempis thoigh I likely could've done 2. Great trot amd canter half passes. Super easy haunches-in and shoulder-in. The hardest thing was picking up a clean canter from the walk as if you didn't ask absolutely perfectly the way the horse wanted...he was a bit of a shit and would throw tantrums and just stop and refuse to continued once the lesson hit the 40-45 minute mark which was the end...and he would go into haunches-in instead. The owners were listing him for $100,000, so I got to take lessons on him. Then there was another 3 day event horse, an 18hh Hanoverian, that my trainer was bridging up tge dressage levels and he was a solid 3rd.

Actually, its a terrible feeling! When I bought my new horse, I was still used to my average old horse with average gaits. My new horse has more gaits and is a really nice dressage horse. But suddenly you feel so stupid, not getting him into canter etc. It can really be a downer because youll feel so stupid lol

Agreed 😂😂😂😂😂

Kudos to you, this stuff is hard 👏🏼😂

As a dressage rider I found this quite validating XD

@@elphick.event.ponies Dressage is the hardest Equestrian discipline to learn as it all goes on feel, and that is something a coach can't teach you. Unlike the Jumping disciplines where a coach/trainer can help you place the Horse in the best place in front of a jump to jump it. There is a saying in Dressage, the easier it looks, the harder it is to do.

@@MissJools11 Wow. I sadly never got that far in dressage, basically still a beginner but was told i had the natural talent for it... though the terminology often threw me off... never quite got the hang of the terms plus action either. I wish I could afford to pick it up again but that's unlikely for awhile, if ever, given our situation.

@@MissJools11 I’m going to disagree about Dressage being harder to teach than jumping. Yes, some of the Dressage movements are VERY technical and you have to rely a lot on feel. However, I’m a hunter/jumper rider whose trainers always worked with me and my horse on a lot of lateral work (including shoulders/haunches in, and side pass at the trot), turns on forehand and haunches, counter canter, etc. Even had a lovely jumper with a dressage background who I figured out how to do Tempe changes on every two strides and do canter pirouettes. As for jumping, a trainer can tell you ALL day what the “correct” take off spot should be for different types of jumps (stand off a little farther for verticals, get closer to the base of an oxer or “spread” jump to make sure you clear all of the rails), and they can use “placement” poles in lessons to help you practice developing an eye for the correct takeoff distance. However, that only goes so far…. You have to develop your own eye for a distance, and be able to gauge your horse’s speed and impulsion enough to know if you need to steady or push forward to reach the correct distance. There are a lot of aspects that you have to have a feel for, that are almost impossible to teach well. Also, correct pace and correct takeoff spots varies between the hunters and the jumpers. The hunter judges want to see a horse going around a course at a good pace that “looks” like they are just quietly loping along, looking relaxed with slightly stretched down necks and slightly poked out noses and they want the horses to stand off the jumps a bit and leave that “hunter gap” (aka a longer takeoff distance to the jump). In the jumpers, your horse can carry him/her head and neck like a giraffe, and it doesn’t matter. You can’t always keep the same, steady rhythm around the course, as some related distances are set short and some are set long. You have to adjust your pace and striding for that, as well as to pick up extra pace wherever you can to ensure that you remain within the time allowed (or have the fastest time in a jump off). Jumpers usually take off a bit closer to the base of the jumps, especially for large oxers and triple bars. There are a LOT of nuances that you just have to learn the feel for (since, unfortunately, horses don’t have speedometers 😂) and correct take off distances can be affected by so many variables.

Aw I’m so sorry :(

My mare passed away many years ago too. It was traumatic and I haven’t been on a horse more than once since. This video being recommended to me nearly brought me to tears with how much I didn’t realize I missed it.

@@lexinicole4317 I've been missing horse involvement for some time now. Though I've never had the luck of being able to afford a horse of my own.

@@thepaganapostate3208 I definitely consider myself blessed. My horses I owned were all free rescues (usually a dollar paid for paperwork reasons). They always came to me with behavioral problems or physical injuries when I got them. I worked through my late teens and early 20s at farms that allowed me free boarding as part of my pay. It was still such an expensive thing, I drove myself into debt trying to provide for those little buggers. Sending internet love! Horses are good for the soul, if only it weren’t so expensive and challenging of a hobby.

@@lexinicole4317 Oh indeed. I do lament how expensive they can be (any animal really but horses especially). However, I do think this spring and summer I'll volunteer at a local-ish stable and get more hands-on experience that way. Also looking into books to read and videos to watch and learn from. Hopefully that will get me an in... and... my latest interest, wanting to learn how to make costumes for horses. As per a recent visit to Medieval times. I'm aiming to learn better sewing/pattern skills to do that hopefully this year.

Oh! And can I point out how hard Otis tried to figure out this new rider?! Good Boy!!

Same ❤

That's a good word for it!

Awh thank you!

Awh thank you! Yes this series sure has opened my eyes

Awh thanks! Yeh, I didn't see it coming to be fair 😂

Ohhhh. Trust ME. I ride a spicy mare sometimes. She's bucked everyone but me surprisingly. Although it might have something to do with speaking their language. No, I'm not mad. I can speak their language. (ish)

I've heard that top level dressage horses need to spicy, because more energy makes a high level of collection easier. I've also heard that western reining horses should be more laid back, because a super spicy horse will not do well in a high speed sport.

Ikr. He was probably bucking because he was uncomfortable :(

@@KinleyEquestrianthe horse and her don’t know each other plus she does eventing and not dressage and the foam means the horse is relaxed

@@LeopardSsoEdits You clearly have no idea what you are talking about, could you please stop defending something you don't unterstand. Hyperflexion is a serious problem for the health and mental state of horses. It's so fucking sad to see so many people still ignoring that and even defending it. Rollkur is nothing less than animal abuse. Ask any health professional you'd like, be it vet or physiotherapist. They will all tell you the same. FEI already banned Rollkur but apparently there still is a long way to go.

@@MsAppletreee someone already told me it’s not relaxed and I couldn’t see the difference soo yep

@@MsAppletreee well.. they actually didn't ban Rollkur or hyperflexion. They just renamed it "LDR" (low deep round)...

Awh yayy!! How exciting for you ❤

WISH ALL INSTRUCTORS WERE THIS AMAZING, PATIENT, RELAXED, & FUNNY!!! We can learn so much more & very quickly with humor!!! Of course, a BIG part of this fantastic experience was your AMAZING HORSE, OTIS as well! 👏