Lainey Ashker explaining a proper half halt from your seat!!!! I’m like a sponge when she comes!!!!
Posted by Madison Wingate on Tuesday, December 17, 2019
You know we love sharing Lainey Ashker‘s “Grid of the Day” a.k.a. #GOTD jumping exercises here on EN, and every so often we’re lucky enough to catch some dressage wisdom from her as well. In addition to being a five-star event rider, Lainey competes in pure dressage and just recently earned her USDF Gold Medal.
The half halt is an essential, but sometimes mysterious and elusive aid where there often seems to be a thousand ways to describe how to ride one, yet no definitive explanation for proper execution. It can be a matter of finding one of those thousand descriptors that clicks with the rider. Madison Wingate had one such lightbulb moment around riding a half half during a recent lesson with Lainey at her own Lake Geneva Equestrian Center in Wisconsin, which routinely hosts Lainey for clinics.
Watch and learn! Can you spot the moment that it clicks for Madison?
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