Musical Freestyle Dressage

Elements

Dressage Movements:

Leg yields, rein-back, shoulder-in, tavers, renvers, half-pass at trot and canter, flying change, pirouette, turn on haunches, piaffe, passage.

Test Movements:

All of the elements to be socred in one box on a dressage test sheet.

Figures:

Circle, half-circle, change of rein, sperpentine, figure-of-eight.

 

 

Patterns:

The design by which the other elements are linked together (e.g., zigzag in trot).

Combinations:

Sequences involving two different elements (e.g., simple change, change lead through trot, zigzag in canter with flying changes).

Transitions:

Changes between two different gaits or from one pace to another within the same gait.

Gaits:

Walk, trot, canter.

Paces:

Working, collected, medium, extended, free.

(There is obviously some overlap. As examples: a simple change is a test movement and a combination; a half-pass is a dressage movement, but half-pass zigzag in trot is a pattern, and half-pass zigzag in canter with flying change is a combination.)

 

Freestyle Dressage Requirements and Limitations