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Practice from the couch. Quick-fire arena prompts to help you memorise every dressage marker.

App · Free

Arena Letters Trainer.

Memorise the dressage arena layouts. Quick-fire prompts eventually cover all the arena markers until you can place A, C, B, E, K, F, M, H, X — and the quarter markers — without thinking.

3–5 minute sessions
Plays in your browser
Works on phone, tablet, desktop

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Test Replay.

Walk through any Schoolers Dressage Online test movement-by-movement, then test yourself on the sequence. In development — sign up to the newsletter to be notified when it launches.

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Why the drills work.

Our drill apps for dressage riders draw on a handful of well-established principles of how the mind learns, so you can improve your test riding from the couch. Developed in collaboration with a Certified Hypnotherapist.

Effortless recall.

Repetition moves information from the working memory into the subconscious, where it can be recalled effortlessly. This is the difference between thinking and feeling.

Focus on your riding, not the test.

The subconscious runs learned patterns in parallel, so once the arena layout is ‘programmed’ into the mind, the rider’s conscious attention is freed up for the horse.

Feel confident under test pressure.

Skills are encoded alongside the state they’re learned in, so practicing calmly between rides builds a recall pattern that holds up under test pressure, rather than collapsing the moment the bell rings.

Have fun.

Short, regular sessions outperform cramming, because the subconscious learns through familiarity.

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