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PIAFFE COURSE
By Tristan Tucker

Every horse can learn to piaffe. So start with the one you already have.

Twenty-six video lessons, the deepest module Tristan teaches, from the very first reaction on the ground to a confirmed piaffe under saddle, with four different horses worked through in full.

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  • ✓Build the movement in the right order
  • ✓Reduce aids as your horse understands
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4HORSE TYPES WORKED THROUGH
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WHO IS THE PIAFFE COURSE FOR?

It is not a movement for special horses. It is a conversation.

  • The rider who was told her horse cannot

    Wrong breed, wrong build, wrong level, not enough talent. What actually stops most horses is not conformation, it is that nobody built the steps in an order his body could follow.

  • The piaffe that turned into an argument

    You have tried. What you got was tension, running backwards, or two frantic steps that felt like panic rather than power. Every attempt since has started from that memory.

  • The rider who wants the training, not the trick

    Piaffe done properly is a horse carrying himself, balanced, in one place. That is worth having whether or not you ever ride down a centre line, and it changes everything else he does.

Sound familiar?

  • You have been told your horse is not built for it.
  • Asking for it produces tension, not collection.
  • He offers two steps and then runs out the front or the back.
  • You need more and more whip for the same answer.
  • You can get something on the ground and nothing under saddle.
  • You want a method, not a video of a finished piaffe.
  • You want him carrying himself, whatever you call the result.

"You do not need a dressage horse or a dressage goal. The lifting, the balance and the carrying power in this course improve any horse's way of going."

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THE REAL PROBLEM

Piaffe asks a horse to produce a lot of energy and keep it in one place.

That is precisely the situation where tension usually escapes: forward, backward, or up. So the horse who gets tense when you ask is not refusing the movement, he is doing the only thing his body currently knows to do with that much energy and nowhere to send it.

Build the container first.

Adding whip adds energy. If the way out has not been built yet, more energy means more escape, and the piaffe gets further away with every attempt. So this course builds the container first. Lifting and holding a hind leg, then walking and lifting, then the hop, then shaping the body around it, and only then reducing the aids.

Tristan Tucker riding a black horse in passage at a Grand Prix dressage competition

Your instructor

Meet Tristan Tucker.

Tristan spent years working with horses at the top of the sport, and with the horses that were not coping with it. What he kept finding was the same thing: the behaviour everyone was trying to train away was a body that had never learned how to come back down.

The TRT Method came out of that, and it is now used by more than 122,000 riders in over 90 countries.

This is the deepest module Tristan has recorded, and the one where his claim that every horse can learn it gets tested on camera, on four horses who could not have been more different.

LESSON PLAN

Four parts, and the piaffe arrives in part two.

You start on the ground with one hind leg. Everything the finished movement needs is already in that first exercise.

Piaffe Course lessonPart 01

Before you get started

Tools, mindset and the foundation underneath the movement.

  • Before we get started, and the tools I use
  • Getting into the right mindset
  • The foundation of the piaffe
Piaffe Course lessonPart 02

Build the movement

Five steps, in the order his body can follow.

  • Lifting and holding the hind leg, then walking and lifting
  • Achieving the hop
  • Shaping the body, and reducing the aids
Piaffe Course lessonPart 03

Different types of horses

Four horses, four problems, four answers.

  • Higgs, the hyper-mobile horse, worked through in three lessons
  • Don, grumpiness, and Wally, sensitivity
  • Zephir, and what long hind legs change
Piaffe Course lessonPart 04

Under saddle, and the front legs

Take it into the ridden work, then add the lift in front.

  • Piaffe under saddle
  • Lifting front legs, introduction plus four parts
  • Case study, in three parts

Twenty-six lessons, and the first one is a single hind leg. You are not learning a movement, you are building the horse who can do it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Before you decide.

Every horse can learn to offer a piaffe-like response, and part three exists because horses differ so much in how they get there. What varies is how far it goes and how long it takes, not whether the work is useful.

No. Most of the course is on the ground, and the ridden lessons come after the horse already understands the question. If you never take it into the saddle you still have a horse who carries himself better.

Yes. Piaffe is the largest of the eleven modules in the Schooling Bundle. If you own that bundle, the Tristan Tucker Collection or a TRT membership, you already have every lesson on this page.

No. You pay once and keep lifetime access, including all future updates.

You have a 30-day money back guarantee. Email us within 30 days of your purchase and you get every cent back.

For life. There is no time limit and all future updates to the course are included.

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Take the Piaffe Course on its own, or get it with ten more of Tristan's schooling modules.

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Piaffe Course

4 parts · 26 video lessons

  • Before you get started
  • Build the movement
  • Different types of horses
  • Under saddle, and the front legs
€69one-time
  • ✓All 26 video lessons, ground and ridden
  • ✓Four horse types worked through in full
  • ✓Live monthly Q&As with Tristan
  • ✓Access to the TRT community and its database of answered questions
  • ✓Lifetime access, including all future updates
  • ✓30-day money back guarantee
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Schooling Bundle

Get the Piaffe Course and ten more of Tristan's schooling modules, 73 lessons in total.

€149one-time
  • ✓Everything in the Piaffe Course
  • ✓Double Lunge, 12 lessons
  • ✓Flying Changes, 11 lessons
  • ✓Free Conversation, 6 lessons
  • ✓Connective Energy, 5 lessons
  • ✓The Bow, 3 lessons
  • ✓Lifting Front Legs, 3 lessons
  • ✓Getting On the Magical Way, 3 lessons
  • ✓Climbing Wall, Lie Down and In-Hand Lateral Movements
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Follow the steps, see how your horse responds. If you feel this is not for you and your horse, email us within 30 days and you get every cent back.

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