Thanks for all the replies guys. Everyone seems to be on the same page with flat work as pertaining to jumping. I just watched the 2nd video of the 3. I really like what he has to say about lengthening/shortening at the canter for the purpose of jumping. He says it needs to build up or down 1,2,3,4,5 instead of 1,2,5,5,5. He compares it to music. I love when you learn stuff from a video you only stumbled across because you were bored at work.
Just adding from old school opinions. From Colonel Alois Podhajsky, whose books I have read, and Franz Rochowansky, I audited one of his clinics, both of the SRS. Plus many others of their era who I had the honor to meet.
Their mindset is/was every “riding horse” should be ridden “on the aids”. These horses should be able to travel across country in balance, lateral work such as should-in/haunches-in, turns about the forehand and haunches, medium to early collection plus lengthening in gaits. This is just basic “schooling.”
“Dressage” begins with true collection and extension of gaits, lateral movements such as full and half-passes, and so on.
The horses and riders in the Rochowansky clinic I audited were expected to have the skills defined in 2nd paragraph.
So what most of us call dressage is identified as “basic schooling” by old-school trainers and riders.
Fooler, I did not know that. Very interesting. Flat work is grade school and dressage is college if I’m reading that right. Thanks.
That is how I understand what I read and have been told tbchick84.
