{"id":62960,"date":"2022-04-14T16:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T06:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=62960"},"modified":"2022-04-14T16:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T06:02:40","slug":"go-forward-with-charlotte-dujardin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2022\/04\/go-forward-with-charlotte-dujardin\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Forward with Charlotte Dujardin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charlotte Dujardin works on forward with Bonnie Kingsley\u00a0and a six-year-old Friesian stallion, Braggo. In The Netherlands, the stallion had been a harness horse, now he was being trained for dressage. And the session works on the Basics \u2013 surprise. Charlotte works on exercises to develop an essential basic \u2013 forward.<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Charlotte is not a breed snob: \u201cThis horse looks really fun \u2013 how good will his piaffe \/ passage be with his pushing hind legs and great front legs. However he has got a tricky neck, so up and naturally on the bit, we have to work on getting him to drop and stretch, so the neck is not so tight. Friesians are tricky in the neck because they are carriage horses and get a strong under neck.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Charlotte asks Bonnie to ride a leg yield from the centre line, but is unhappy with the horse taking charge of the movement: \u201cFirst ride a diagonal line, A to S, ride the diagonal straight first, then ask him to go sideways. There she let the horse fall sideways rather than going forward and sideways. You have to stay in charge of how much sideways. The whole time, he is trying to take over, trying to get to the wall quicker than Bonnie wants him to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe wants to rush sideways, most horses want to hug the track, this exercise gives the rider control.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Charlotte jumps on and demonstrates how much deeper she rides into the corners, that\u2019s discipline. She tells us it\u2019s the job of the rider to maintain suppleness and contact. \u201cOften when the rider says the horse is \u2018lazy\u2019, it\u2019s actually the rider who has made the horse dull. You\u2019ve got to allow the horse to go forward, the contact is there with your horse, but not enough forward\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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And Braggo was learning to go for a bit of a burn:
\n\u201cWhen I touch him with my leg \u2013 FORWARD<\/strong> \u2013 straight away. See how much quicker he is now after three times. If you leave your leg on them all the time, they get more and more dead and lazy. Touch and forward. They have to react from the smallest aid, when you get to Grand Prix, you just want to steer.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m going to try a flying change. It doesn\u2019t matter if it doesn\u2019t look pretty at first, as long as he does one side to the other. Never tell them off if they don\u2019t do it perfectly or they will become afraid of doing changes.\u00a0Okay, he just changed in front, how you start doesn\u2019t matter, at home I\u2019d use a little whip to bounce him through.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Never tell them off if they don\u2019t do it perfectly or they will become afraid of doing changes… Valegro showing Charlotte’s\u00a0<\/strong>system works.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Charlotte Dujardin works on forward with Bonnie Kingsley\u00a0and a six-year-old Friesian stallion, Braggo. In The Netherlands, the stallion had been a harness horse, now he was being trained for dressage. And the session works on the Basics \u2013 surprise. Charlotte works on exercises to develop an essential basic \u2013 forward. Charlotte is not a breed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":62986,"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":[468,2069,2337],"class_list":["post-62960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dressage","tag-charlotte-dujardin","tag-dressage-basics","tag-forward"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62960","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62987,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62960\/revisions\/62987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}