NEW Dressage DVD Rudolf Zeilinger Vol 3 LATERAL WORK

Rudolf Zeilinger, long time pupil of Willi Schultheis and instructor of Olympic and world champion horses, is known for his sensible and sensitive way of schooling dressage horses. His horses are fascinating to watch again and again because of their easy, relaxed and natural way of working.

Motivated and supple horses upto Grand Prix level - for Rudolf Zeilinger lateral work is an essential element in a horse's dressage training. In the third part of this series, this successful rider and trainer demonstrates lateral work with his own horses, explaining when to begin, what requirements have to be fulfilled and how he works individually with horses that vary greatly in temperament as well as training level. In this very impressive presentation the viewer is able to experience how all of Zeilinger's horses achieve constantly increasing levels of elasticity, impulsion and suppleness as a result of lateral work.

The programme concentrates on shoulder-in, shoulder-fore and half pass with the sequence of steps being clearly explained with the aid of diagrams, he explains how to develop impulsion by increasing and decreasing the tempo and the use of transitions to improve self-carriage and encourage the horse to step under with the hind legs, all necessary requirements of lateral work.

We also see Zeilinger teaching a student how to perform correct lateral work, he emphasises the need for suppleness and balance in the rider and corrects the riders position.

The programme concludes with examples of incorrect lateral work and he explains how to correct the faults shown along with a detailed description of the rein and leg aids.

Language: English and German.