For the nerdy folks. Dressage is the equestrian sport I often compete in. Now it's fun and tough. There are different levels. Intro is the most basic level and it goes all the way to the Olympic level Grand Prix. My horse and I are like in 2nd grade. I school First Level and I have competed at First Level a month ago. But mainly I've shown in Training Level.
What's a freestyle? It's like gymanstics or ice skating, you create your own test and put it to music. Now this is very challenging.
Part of me was like oi I don’t have the time or energy. But I loved the idea. Star Wars freestyle. Plus I have that little voice in my head that says “It’ll be fun!” The angry little voice goes, “what in the world is wrong with you?”
My first step was looking at the test requirements. I had to know what I could and couldn’t do. For training level I could pretty much walk-trot-canter. 15 meters circles. Free walk. Very basic.
Then your horse. Every horse has their own personality as well as their own way of moving. You have to calculate your horse's bpm, beats per minute for each gait. Walk-Trot-Canter. I calculated my horse's gaits and they were walk (55) trot (75) and canter (104).
You should match the music to the horse’s personality.
Now my friend and I just put on Star Wars music at the barn. It was fun. One of the first songs we listened to was the Cantina Song. Now both horses seem to be perky, it matched the pony more than Lilly.
The Imperial March was 104 BPM and it matched Lilly. It’s just kind of long so we’d have to remix it somehow to make it that I’m not cantering my whole test.
So far the experiment is fun. Even if I don’t end up making a freestyle it’s been fun riding to Star Wars music.
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