A dressage rider needs to be dedicated to the sport, ambitious, competitive and they need to put in the riding time. Discover what a dressage rider needs to do in order to succeed with helpful advice in this video on horse training and dressage.
So some qualities that, you know, you would want to strive to have as a dressage rider or that you need to have as a dressage rider, I think -- or any rider for that matter, but especially dressage -- is the dedication. You most definitely need to be dedicated to the sport. You need to put the time in to ride. You know, you can have a great horse and have a great coach, but you need to get the time in the saddle and put in that time and dedication to...for it to amount to anything. You definitely need to be keen, I think, and really want to ride and have that...be ambitious. I think that it would be...it's a great quality to be competitive a little bit. A little bit of competitiveness is good. You know, it gives you that competitive edge. It makes you want it, it makes you go for it. And dressage really is great for any discipline, so you know, like I said earlier, dressage is a...means really only training, so you would want to have any kind of basic dressage training, whether you're a jumper, an event rider. Especially for the event riders, it's great because dressage is within the discipline of eventing. You've got your cross-country jumping in dressage and a lot of the eventers, you know, dressage is not their strongest suit. So if you can really improve your dressage as an eventer, you know, you will be way ahead of your game. And we have a lot of students that come to us as even hunter riders, jumper riders, and especially eventers that want to brush up on their dressage so that, overall, they can improve their quality of...their horse's quality of going and the way that they give the aids and ride. So I think it's really important, you know. Not necessarily, you don't have to be a Grand Prix rider. You can be a very basic level rider and just want to have fun, but to brush up on those skills will improve any discipline.
