Turn your Horse Without the Inside Rein!

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In Dressage, we hear over and over again “inside leg, outside rein.” The idea is that eventually, as you train dressage, the inside rein will become less of a crutch and the horse will learn to maneuver from the inside leg and outside rein aids.

Why is this important?

One of the main objectives of Dressage is to get the horse to be more uphill. Naturally horses carry the majority of their weight on the forehand but in dressage we want them to transfer the weight to the hind end for the advanced movements such as the pirouettes and piaffe!

Using the diagonal of inside leg and outside rein helps to get the horse uphill. When the rider applies the inside leg, they drive the energy of the horses’ inside hind leg up and into the outside rein. Engaging the inside hind leg from the rider's inside leg and containing the energy in the outside rein will get the horse more uphill.

Pulling on the inside rein has the opposite effect. The inside rein will cause the horse to over bend in the neck, fall out with the outside shoulder and lose the alignment through the body. Turning or attempting to execute any movement only from the inside rein will make the horse downhill instead of uphill.

This week’s video focuses on turning without using the inside rein. Instinctually we all want to pull on the inside rein to turn, however we must train ourselves (and horses) to turn from the outside rein and leg. While the inside rein indicates flexion, the outside rein and leg execute the turn!

This video is bout how to ride a horse, how to steer a horse, the inside leg and outside rein. It addresses what to do when horse wont turn, horse turning and the function that the outside rein, inside leg, and the importance of rider position in turning the horse. This is a form of a dressage lesson from an experienced dressage trainer.

Видео Turn your Horse Without the Inside Rein! канала Amelia Newcomb Dressage