Improving the levade

16 July 2009

The levade while ridden is getting better and better:

I start with a 20 minutes warm-up:

• Walk on a circle
• Shoulder-in and haunches-in on a circle
• Forward-down on the diagonal
• Trot on the circle
• Shoulder-in and haunches-in on a circle
• Half-steps

 

Then I take a 5 minute break.

And then we go to work: trot, half-steps, piaffe, levade, piaffe. To the left and to the right.