Dressage

When you see a rider riding a dressage test, you will notice that you can barely see the rider giving the aids . Dressage is an event and competition in English riding category. There are two "types" of  dressage one is riding a planned test, which every competitor rides the same test and another one is dressage to music. Dressage to music can be solo, double or quadruple.
      You can go to youtube and search "hip hop dressage" (freestyle to music) and Prix St Georges.


source from(http://www.dressagedirect.com/ec_hagen_2005)
The basic gaits are walk, trot and canter. (There is no gallop in dressage)
But there are much more complicated. There are two degrees in collection. One of them are collection and collection plus.
Trot: extended, collected, medium
Walk: extended, collected, medium and walk on long rein
Canter: extended, collected
Here are some advanced movements.
Passage, piroutte, half pass and much more.
There is also classical dressage but only lipazzaner stallions can master.Its called "airs above ground" Lipizzaner a born black and when they grow their coats will turn white which we call gray horses.
Here is a lipazzaner stallion performing a courbette.


These moves are not for performing in the times when there's war, it's for defence and attack for knights riding on horses.