De-complicating Dressage

This months guest is Charlie Hutton, who grew up at Talland School of Equitation, surrounded by horses and dressage. You may recognise him from multiple different TV Shows on Horse & Country TV. Now he is a successful international Grand Prix rider with 8 international wins and 6 national titles. He is also Dressage Mentor for the World Class Podium Potential Pathway where his role is to nurture and develop athletes from Junior riders to U25 Grand Prix. He is also an incredibly successful coach around the world. In this episode, we cover LOTS! From the type of horse he likes, how he uses science to guide how he cares for his horses, how to work out the fact from the fiction when researching, asking your horse small questions to improve your training, the benefits of bareback riding to help you feel the horse and how they're moving and how mentoring should be something every rider can benefit from. To find out more about Charlie:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Charliehutton.netWebsite: Charlie Hutton Equestrian Home - Charlie Hutton Equestrian

We're here for season 2!I am so excited that we are joined for our first episode by Sara Jane Lanning! International Dressage Rider, List 1 Judge and coach! Sara tells us exactly what the judge is looking for and answers the big question of whether judges judge different horses differently; where she sees most riders make mistakes in their tests and what we can do as riders to boost our marks and improve our scores. Enjoy!

This week we are doing a little bit of mindset work and looking at how we as riders deal with pressure and stressful situations. We look at the different types of riders, which ones you are and how to deal with these mistakes and problems in tests and trainingUltimate Transition Masterclass: Transitions Workshop | DecomplicatingDress (decomplicatingdressage.com)Subscribe to hear new episodesYou can find me at• Instagram: www.Instagram.com/decomplicatingdressage • Facebook: www.Facebook.com/decomplicatingdressage🌟Need a boost to your training🌟The Ultimate Rider Programme is our membership for riders who are passionate about becoming the best riders they can be ->www.decomplicatingdressage.com 

After our last episode you all had a few questions - here we answer 4 great questions from Stacey, Rochelle, Tori and Rachel all about transitions!If you enjoyed this episode then please do share it ! It means the podcast can reach more people and will be able to help them with their training too! 👩‍💻Ultimate Transition Masterclass: Transitions Workshop | DecomplicatingDress (decomplicatingdressage.com)Subscribe to hear new episodes You can find me at• Instagram: www.Instagram.com/decomplicatingdressage • Facebook: www.Facebook.com/decomplicatingdressage🌟Need a boost to your training🌟The Ultimate Rider Programme is our membership for riders who are passionate about becoming the best riders they can be ->www.decomplicatingdressage.com 

We have been talking for the last few weeks all about transitions over on our social media channels so i wanted to collect all the most needed information around transitions and put it into one easy episode! This episode includes everything from the types of transitions, how to ride really good transitions, the benefits of them and what the judges are looking for and need to see in a test for you to get a great score for your transitions.If you enjoyed this episode then please do share it ! It means the podcast can reach more people and will be able to help them with their training too! 👩‍💻Subscribe to hear new episodes every Friday.You can find me at• Instagram: www.Instagram.com/decomplicatingdressage • Facebook: www.Facebook.com/decomplicatingdressage🌟Need a boost to your training🌟The Ultimate Rider Programme is our membership for riders who are passionate about becoming the best riders they can be ->www.decomplicatingdressage.com 

I know we've been doing a lot of test/competition focussed episodes recently but the more we do them, the more questions keep coming in! So this time were taking a look at the 4 most common areas i see riders lose marks. These arent the big ones though that you need to go away and spend months working on. These are little tweaks and changes you can make that will have a big improvement on your scores. If you enjoyed this episode then please do share it ! It means the podcast can reach more people and will be able to help them with their training too! 👩‍💻Subscribe to hear new episodes every Friday.You can find me at• Instagram: www.Instagram.com/decomplicatingdressage • Facebook: www.Facebook.com/decomplicatingdressage🌟Need a boost to your training🌟The Ultimate Rider Programme is our membership for riders who are passionate about becoming the best riders they can be ->www.decomplicatingdressage.com 

I know that we do always want our tests to go as well as possible but, sometimes things to do go wrong and i think weve all had those tests before that dont go as planned. In todays episode we take a look at what to do when things go wrong and what the best way is to lose as few marks as possible and get yourself back on track ASAP!If you enjoyed this episode then please do share it ! It means the podcast can reach more people and will be able to help them with their training too! 👩‍💻Subscribe to hear new episodes every Friday.You can find me at• Instagram: www.Instagram.com/decomplicatingdressage • Facebook: www.Facebook.com/decomplicatingdressage🌟Need a boost to your training🌟The Ultimate Rider Programme is our membership for riders who are passionate about becoming the best riders they can be ->www.decomplicatingdressage.com 

We havent done a troubleshooting episode in a while so i thought leg yields would be the perfect one to get us back into them again! For those of you that are newer to the podcasts in our troubleshooting episodes we take a look at a movement and all the most common problems all riders face when we ride them. We look at where each problem comes from and what causes it and then how we go about fixing it. If you enjoyed this episode then please do share it ! It means the podcast can reach more people and will be able to help them with their training too! 👩‍💻Subscribe to hear new episodes every Friday.You can find me at• Instagram: www.Instagram.com/decomplicatingdressage • Facebook: www.Facebook.com/decomplicatingdressage🌟Need a boost to your training🌟The Ultimate Rider Programme is our membership for riders who are passionate about becoming the best riders they can be ->www.decomplicatingdressage.com