George Williams Teaching Piaffe Passage Transitions
George Williams Teaching Piaffe Passage Transitions
Introducing a developing the correct and tension free Piaffe and passage transitions can seem like a daunting task. In this video George Williams makes it simple and quick to school and develop a progression for the piaffe and passage transitions. Starting from the collected trot and working up into the piaffe and passage transitions this exercise is ease to introduce, use and develop as you move up the levels with your dressage horse.
This video was filmed at the Robert Dover Horsemastership Program in Wellington Florida.
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President of the United States Dressage Federation and a member of several United States Equestrian Federation Committees, George Williams is an accomplished International Grand Prix competitor who is widely renowned in his field. He is a prominent figure in the dressage community whose career highlights with Chuck and Joann Smith’s Grand Prix mare, Rocher, included: three-time Dressage at Devon Grand Prix and Grand Prix Freestyle Champion, 2005 USEF/Collecting Gaits Grand Prix National Champion, Team Bronze at 2005 CHIO Aachen, fifth at the 2003 FEI World Cup Final in Sweden, USEF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Freestyle Horse of the Year, as well as being named Dressage Horse of the Year by The Chronicle of the Horse. Williams was co-winner of the USEF Equestrian of Honor award for his success in 2005.
He has been studying dressage since 1973 when he traveled to Germany to enroll at the Reitinstitute von Neindorff’, where he earned his German Bronze Rider Medal. Upon returning to the U.S., Williams began training with Karl Mikolka. He also trained in Germany with the former U.S. Dressage team coach and Olympic Gold medalist, Klaus Balkenhol.
In 1981, Williams became a resident rider and trainer for The Tempel Lipizzans in Wadsworth, Ill., in order to continue to work under his mentor, Karl Mikolka. From the summer of 2000 until the spring of 2009, he rode and trained for the Smiths at their Gypsy Woods Farm in Richwood, Ohio. Williams has worked closely with Kathy Connelly over the years. Williams rode and trained for Elizabeth Juliano’s Havensafe Farm of Middlefield, Ohio and Wellington, Fla., from 2009-2014. During his time at Havensafe Farm, George successfully competed several horses for Juliano. In 2009 the Oldenburg gelding, Don Bailey, was Reserve Champion at the USEF Developing Horse Championships and in 2011 the Oldenburg mare, Horizon, was Reserve Champion in the four-year-old division at the USEF Young Horse Championships. He also had numerous wins, including at the USDF Regional Championships, on Cleopatra and Riccidoff. George now teaches and clinics with Williams Dressage LLC.