How to ride shoulder in
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Comment down bellow of you think the shoulder in is one of the best movments in dressage... even though this movment disappears as we get to the Grand Prix, it is still a fundamental part of training the Grand Prix horse. I was inspired this week by watching videos of top riders working on the shoulder in... even though my attempt at this exercise isnt close to these top riders i feel like it helps horses at all levels to organize their bodies and come closer to engagment, throughness and collection. Hubertus Schmidt • DressageClinic.com Pre... edward gal • Edward Gal training Mo... Amelia Newcomb • Shoulder-In: The MOST ...
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Thanks for being so relaxed and light - it translates into your riding! so many videos are stiff and the people seem like they are not having fun at all. You are inspiring.
I like the sailing instructions, especially the contemporary blur; very avante garde:)
The whiteboard and your drawing are great 😁
Joseph, FYI, I've just increased the male subscribers count ;-) Thanks again for this great video !
Yessssss! Thank you!
Joseph, I have been working on this technique recently. Thank you for the video it helped a lot.
This is so great. Thank you for being so down to earth. I love all your videos.
I think it makes a lot of sense. Love how you help understand movements.
I like the imagery you created on the white board. I struggle with keeping the horse swinging because I lock up while trying to ride the movement. I have to tell myself always to swing, swing, swing with every stride.
Love your vlogs ! Please , please please keep them coming ! Awesome help !
Hello Joseph....very helpful...Jazz looks lovely yes just Lovely. Thank you for your channel.
Thanks for this you make things so simple. Me and my horse are slowly doing these movements. I might even register him in dressage move him up a level next year. His jumping might take a side seat.
I was just working on some shoulder in today, before I got thrown (stallion had a little fit). Great timing for this video, totally gets the Hind end caught up to the body without "kicking & pulling." LOL
relevant to see first stages and being patient:)
Thank you for this. A good explanation of the purpose of shoulder in and how you can use it to develop the connection. P.S. Love the whiteboard....
Thanks for the simplicity. I share your videos with my students. Cant wait to ride with you again in Seattle! White board is really great with video explanation. Have one in my indoor arena for the same reason!
I think that horse enjoyed doing that. That is why he was so good😀And of course beautiful!!
It's not the matter of the angle:) it is a matter of which part of the vertebra rotates in which diraction. don't start with shoulder in - start with "shoulder for" having in mind that if you're ridding e.g. right, the vertebra behibd your saddle must be "rotated right'. When you can express shoulder for in walt, trot and gallop also on circles, that it is the time for shoulder in. (sorry for my English- got very rusty)
Clear as mud.
Yep, it works, Great explanation for myself on how it’s done correctly, you can see it, I’m a “see it” learner,,lol🐎🐎🙏💕 Thanks 🐎🐎🐎
I would add that this movement has brought me and my horse along quicker. He just gets lighter after we practice this movement.
Hello, may I ask something???
We offen start with young horses in rising trot... Moremovement from the hindlegs and close them by sit in.
Yes Hubertus is great!!!! ☺💖☺💖💖☺
being some sort of Dressage greenhorn I have to state that there wasnt a single exercis that helped me to learn how to properly sit in the middle and get my mare to carry herself and hindlegs moving like doing the shoulder in
It’s such a great exercise
yes this shoulder in ridden by Hubertus Schmidt is great and that "Fürst Fabio" i saw at age 3 winning the Bundeschampionat in Germany, it is a small horse but now looks so big and R.I.P. maestre Nuno Oliveira said the shoulder in is the aspirin of riding ; but it doesnt truly work with an always balancing seat , with the weight aid ....smile.....no bending in hind legs without weight aids.....and no true straightness without using weight aids, cause no matter what one will ride §1 is: horses go/balance themselves under weight, that is simply pyhsics and no miracle ......smile.....like your channel
I love Finney😀he is so pretty! He looks so pretty while you are working with him. He looks like he wants to please you for a young horse😀
Absolutely brilliant riding... Hubertus Schmidt... just like your shoulder in in the first minute. The difference perhaps being that HS's horse performs slightly more spectacular. Lifts its legs a bit more expressively. But that may have to do with your horse's level of training. Meaning that it just is a matter of time. And I am sure you do not wish to hurry a horse along.
As for the exercise itself it is my personal experience that many riders (and even their instructors) sometimes or perhaps even more than sometimes do not notice the horse "disappearing" over the outside shoulder within the exercise. But this is my personal experience.
Great explanation. Thanks for the info! Are there any good books that you would recommend on dressage?
I like anything by Charles de Kunffy.
Having a lesson with my OTTB we had a brilliant moment with shoulder in, I told her it was better than sex. She nearly fell of her chair laughing. Love these moments and your great videos. Thanks
What do you mean by 'come through the outside rein'?
Wow, I can really identify with this video. My horse is young (for a draft cross) and is just learning the shoulder in and I have to accept a very slow transition because he is young and not as balanced and supple as a more seasoned horse. It's a shoulder fore in the beginning and I have to accept that, because he's not able to bend as much as he needs to. After a matter of weeks of slowly building the bend and taking him from a walk to a trot while doing it he does a few steps of proper shoulder-in and we are gradually getting there with more and more steps. However, sometimes I do a shoulder-in towards the rail on the long side of the arena. I feel that it supports what I'm asking and he "gets" it that we are bending and going forward at the same time and not bending and going into the center of the arena. Is that OK? Or am I cheating? Thanks for a great video. You and your sister are the best!
Why don’t we do shoulder in with his head against the wall? I was doing a leg yield at a trot like that yesterday and it surprised me how it reinforced the half halt in the outside rein. Super cool.
you can also try playing with renvers on the track , with that the rider is better to feel the back of the horse, a wall in front i suppose would prevent the rider from feeling horses back and only the wall is your so thinking "half halt" in the end only by hands , but half halt is more, the essence is its a half Go not a Halt and a rebalancing in our seat , Robert Dover brings it to the point in his horsemanship week here in Internet saying "the half halt is the end in its self"....enjoy.......the fingers are communicating with the horses hind legs between your seat and not with a stopping wall in front...smile
Yes! I’m a lady but agreed! More men need to get back to dressage ! 🤗🥰
question : where is the head of the horse in the shoulder in ?...which line ??? your whiteboard shows head is right of the forehand right leg ?
Nuno Oliveira has written while doing shoulder in the head of horse should be on a line you can imagine between horses forehand legs and not more to the inside !
Don't worry about the head too much. . It's about the body and the legs. The head will follow. .. should the head and neck contort or rotate or anything it tells you something is not aligned in the body.
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Thanks!
White board illustration good !
I’m going to try to get bigger dry erase markers. I think that will make it easier to see... my art skills on the other hand, those we may be stuck with. 😂 thank you for watching.
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White boards are great teaching tools! You ought to know that riding has been taken over by women! It's a woman's sport first, a man's sport second. Why? Cause men like to jump high and run fast and try to kill themselves with cars and motorcycles. Of course I jest, but that's what it seems like. Women's center of gravity is in their hips, men's is in their chest or shoulders. So when I see a man riding English, especially Dressage, tells me they've learn to drop their center of gravity closer to the horse. Case in point: When women carry a child, where do they prop them? On their hips. Where does a man carry a small child? On their shoulders. More men ride western because they have the upper body strength to fling that 40 lb saddle on the back of a horse. And that western saddle "sucks" them in, they don't really have to lower their center of gravity as much. Of course there are exceptions. Personally, I don't find any elegance watching a a western rider do a "jog" trot. Like watching paint dry. Oops, there I go, on a rant! Sorry, back to shoulder in...
Very helpful but So much clicking tongue!!!!!....
Thank you!
You’re welcome. Glad you found it helpful.