{"id":59909,"date":"2021-07-28T14:26:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T04:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=59909"},"modified":"2024-03-10T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T05:09:19","slug":"what-wrong-with-that-piaffe-passage-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/07\/what-wrong-with-that-piaffe-passage-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s wrong with that piaffe passage tour?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I watched the horses go round in the Grand Prix and the Special at Tokyo, I was reminded of an article by Jeremy Steinberg – especially the point about the horses falling onto their front legs in the piaffe. Although Jeremy singled out Parzival, now retired, in his comment, there were more than a few with the same fault at these Games – CH<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s what Jeremy had to say:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing I do look to them for, one thing that I do think gets overlooked and that is all the piaffe \/ passage these days with the horses that don\u2019t sit. A lot of competition horses are so far out with the hind legs in passage, that the riders get lower and lower to the ground as the neck gets higher and the croup gets higher and the rider is sitting in the middle on a bouncy trampoline.”<\/p>\n

“Then in piaffe, it\u2019s as if the horses hit a mud bog or something, shuffle for a few strides or they\u2019re trotting in place with no lowering of the croup. I never saw Parzival piaffe where the front hoof was higher than the hind hoof.”<\/p>\n

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\u00a0You can\u2019t teach a horse to push its hind legs out and trampoline its back, to load its quarters. It\u2019s almost an\u00a0impossibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Bartle, dressage \u2013 and eventing \u2013 medallist, talks about good piaffe and passage:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe quality of the piaffe and passage is reflected in the extent to which the exercises are performed with apparent ease on the part of both horse and, just as importantly, rider.<\/strong> They must appear as natural to the horse as the trot or the canter and for that reason the training which produces these exercises must be a logical extension of dressage training. Because the bulk of the horse\u2019s weight is carried by the hindquarters, the foreleg is enabled to be picked up and then put down in a vertical plane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more about piaffe and passage, and how to train these movements:<\/p>\n

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Read more on training Piaffe and Passage from Christopher Bartle:<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2019\/11\/piaffe-and-passage-with-christopher-bartle-part-s<\/a>ix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have been watching some of the piaffe and passage in the Tokyo tests, and are wondering, that doesn’t look right – you are not alone. Jeremy Steinberg explains…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,4],"tags":[1243,20,1403,2130,2033],"class_list":["post-59909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dressage","tag-dressage","tag-dressage-training","tag-jeremy-steinberg","tag-passage","tag-piaffe"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67663,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59909\/revisions\/67663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}