For a lot of riders in Britain, coaching dressage “in-hand” nonetheless feels area of interest – one thing related to the Spanish Using Faculty of Vienna or the Cadre Noir in Saumur. But, throughout Europe, it’s a staple at each degree, and it’s now gaining floor right here too.
At its core, in-hand coaching is simple: with a bridle or cavesson and a education whip, the handler works the horse from the bottom to construct suppleness, power and understanding, both earlier than or alongside ridden work.
Not like lungeing or long-reining, it’s nearer to “driving from the bottom,” utilizing the reins, whip and physique language to speak. The outcome? Higher stability, clearer communication, and a horse extra ready – bodily and mentally – to study.
Why in-hand coaching works
“It’s nearly like Pilates for the horse,” says Swedish coach Charlotte Wittbom on classical in-hand work. “If I’ve performed all of the lateral actions and helped the horse fireplace up the right muscular tissues, then once I put a rider on, the horse is a lot extra ready.”
Charlotte discovered her craft in Portugal with the Valença household and at Morgado Lusitano earlier than shifting to the UK, the place she now collaborates with five-star worldwide decide Stephen Clarke.
Nonetheless, at first, Stephen admits, he wasn’t certain. “Charlotte got here to me eager to adapt her classical background to competitors,” he remembers. “As soon as I noticed how she used groundwork, I used to be impressed.
“There are riders I’ve been instructing for years that I’ve struggled to get into actual self-carriage – and one session with Charlotte, and it clicks. It’s a superb device.”
Charlotte emphasises that the fundamentals are all the time the inspiration. “We will’t simply inform a horse to fireplace up their core. We have to put them ready the place these muscular tissues are engaged, breaking the motion aside to allow them to perceive it with out the added complication of a rider.
“I wouldn’t begin piaffe earlier than doing this, however even when a horse is superior, the fundamentals don’t cease.”
The outcomes will be hanging. “We used infrared cameras as soon as to check warm-ups,” she says. “It took 20 minutes ridden for the horse to get the topline engaged – with groundwork, it took 30 seconds.”
Coach Kathrin Roida, who has written extensively on in-hand work, agrees that the advantages scale proper as much as the highest of the game: “Each horse may passage gracefully in-hand when it’s taught with lightness. It develops physique and thoughts collectively.”
Dressage Coaching In-Hand | AmazonIn this e book, Kathrin particulars her strategies, sharing the tales of horses of various ages, breeds, and coaching backgrounds, and demonstrating the steps to instructing them: shoulder-in, travers, renvers, pirouettes, half-pass, piaffe, passage, canter work, the Spanish stroll, and way more.
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<h3>1. Introducing the whip as a communication tool</h3>
<p data-start="328" data-end="587">Before you can do any meaningful in-hand work, your horse needs to trust the whip as a guiding aid – not fear it as punishment.</p>
<p>“From the ground, we can teach the horse that a whip resting lightly on the top line means halt,” says Charlotte. “Then, touching the girth area means go forward. Just as the calf at the girth is a ridden aid, the whip becomes a ground aid. With those two – start and stop – you have the basics.”</p>
<p><strong>Why it helps:</strong> Establishing clear “start” and “stop” buttons from the ground creates a shared language. That clarity carries through every other in-hand exercise – and later, under saddle.</p>
<h3>2. Hindquarters around shoulders</h3>
<div id="attachment_906299" style="width: 2570px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-906299" class="lazyload blur-up size-full wp-image-906299" data-processed src="https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/03/new-hh-placeholder-200x200.png" data-src="https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1706" data-sizes="auto" data-srcset="https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-300x200.jpg 300w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-600x400.jpg 600w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-135x90.jpg 135w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-320x213.jpg 320w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-620x413.jpg 620w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-920x613.jpg 920w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-1220x813.jpg 1220w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-1620x1080.jpg 1620w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_11026-1920x1280.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /><p id="caption-attachment-906299" class="wp-caption-text">For hindquarters around the shoulders, we want the inside leg to reach in and over the outside hind. Credit: Isabel Pearce</p></div>
<p><strong>How to do it:</strong> Stand by the horse’s shoulder, facing slightly towards the hind end. Hold the reins – or line – in your inside hand, whip in the outside hand, angled towards the hind legs. Then, ask for a step of the quarters around the front end by gently tapping the hindquarters while keeping a light feel on the reins. You want the inside leg to reach in and over the outside hind leg. Reward even one correct step.</p>
<p><strong>Why it helps:</strong> Teaches the horse to bring the hindlegs under and respond to sideways aids. Begins to mobilise the hips.</p>
<h3>3. Shoulders around hindquarters</h3>
<p><strong>How to do it:</strong> Position yourself just behind the horse’s head, body angled slightly towards the shoulders. Keep the neck softly flexed inwards and use the whip near the shoulder to ask the front end to step around the hindquarters. Take it one stride at a time.</p>
<p><strong>Why it helps:</strong> Separates front end from hind end, develops shoulder control, and lays the foundation for <a href="https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/dressage/shoulder-in-how-to-ride-aids-solve-common-problem-35157">shoulder-in</a>.</p>
<h3>4. Lateral basics</h3>
<div id="attachment_906304" style="width: 2570px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-906304" class="lazyload blur-up size-full wp-image-906304" data-processed src="https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/03/new-hh-placeholder-200x200.png" data-src="https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1706" data-sizes="auto" data-srcset="https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-300x200.jpg 300w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-600x400.jpg 600w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-135x90.jpg 135w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-320x213.jpg 320w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-620x413.jpg 620w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-920x613.jpg 920w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-1220x813.jpg 1220w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-1620x1080.jpg 1620w, https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/10/IP_10855-1920x1280.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /><p id="caption-attachment-906304" class="wp-caption-text">For leg yields, try it on a line you use when riding to maximise the benefits. Credit: Isabel Pearce</p></div>
<p><strong>How to do it: </strong>Position yourself near the horse’s shoulder, holding the reins in your inside hand and whip in the outside. Next, walk purposefully but steadily with the horse on a diagonal line. Face the horse as you move, matching your steps to their rhythm.</p>
<p>Keep the aids clear and simple – tap lightly with the whip at the girth to ask the hindquarters to step away, while maintaining a soft inward flexion with the reins. Reward every correct crossing step, even if it’s just one or two at first.</p>
<p><strong>Why it helps: </strong> “As well as activating the core, the horse is developing an understanding that will become the foundation of your ridden work, that’s why it makes sense to use the same lines as you will use when riding,” Charlotte explains.</p>
<h2>Building it into your routine</h2>
<p>With all of this work, it’s worth remembering that in-hand training is physically demanding, even without a rider on board. You wouldn’t thank a Pilates instructor for making you repeat the same exercise endlessly! Start with three to five correct steps and build progressively.</p>
<p>But whatever your horse’s age, size or breed, all can benefit from short, regular sessions. Even five to ten minutes in-hand before schooling or hacking can switch on the right muscles and improve focus.</p>
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