Dressage Adventures

  • Home
  • Dressage Adventures

Dressage Adventures The #1 Dressage Platform loved by equestrians with a passion for training and competing online, just like you! www.dressageadventures.com
(1)

02/11/2025

Do you wish you could ride FLYING CHANGES? Follow this series and learn how to break the movement down into simple smaller parts, which EVERYONE can learn!

The first step is 'SHOULDER CONTROL'. Flying changes are all about weight shifting so that your horse’s front legs are free to lift in front. Imagine that you’re a puppeteer controlling your horse’s front leg - this is a really fun exercise!

Think about following the front leg with your hand. Ask yourself – can I get my horse to step wide with her front foot? Keep asking for a little more each time so that your horse begins to make a clear connection between your hand cue and the shoulder.

Jenku explains that once you realise there is a connection with your horse’s mouth corners and the front legs, the better you will be able to communicate what you want your horse to do for the Flying Change.

Buy the 'Ridden Autumn Season' here: https://adventureswithjenku.com/pages/ridden

01/11/2025

This training program is a complete eye opener. If you're lungeing in the conventional way - your horse is missing out! Here's why...

If you don't see results in the first 7 days, simply request a refund for the full purchase price!

Click here to get started:
https://adventureswithjenku.com/pages/lunge

"I’ve never seen anyone more passionate and gifted with horses than Jenku. Watching the magic and chemistry he has with ...
31/10/2025

"I’ve never seen anyone more passionate and gifted with horses than Jenku. Watching the magic and chemistry he has with horses is like watching an old friend - it’s entertaining yet so easy to understand and follow."

Click here to view our training programs: https://adventureswithjenku.com/pages/our-lessons

NO HORSING AROUND MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
If you don't see amazing results, simply contact us within 7 days for a prompt and cheery refund. 😊

No matter what level you ride, from beginner to Grand Prix, Jenku's method will transform you - and your horse!Start you...
31/10/2025

No matter what level you ride, from beginner to Grand Prix, Jenku's method will transform you - and your horse!
Start your training program here: www.adventureswithjenku.com

30/10/2025

Horses don’t have a language brain, yet we are training them to do complex movements without using words. This is MIND BLOWING stuff!

I'm super excited about this video as LEG EXTENSIONS are useful for so much other dressage work. Think of freeing up the shoulder for the EXTENDED TROT and for FLYING CHANGES in the canter.

To recap, Jenku makes sure that Jack’s 'static' leg extensions, which he learned in the Summer season, are solid. Once these are consistent, he can progress to 'dynamic' and ask him to take a step forward. The sequence looks like this: 'extend leg, take a step forward, reward'.

This exercise is as much about ‘training the trainer’ as it is about training the horse. If the horse is not getting it right, it means that you aren’t getting it right. That is not to discourage you, but rather to encourage you to take it back a step, work on the basic movements until they are really established and then try again. It does not make you less of a trainer. There is wisdom in slowing down and starting again.

The secret's out! Top riders train 'In-Hand' to enhance their performance. Now you can learn how to do it yourself! Every video is packed with educational fun, and magical moments that are easy to follow and execute. Enjoy! www.adventureswithjenku.com/pages/in-hand

29/10/2025

Clucking like a chicken is never a good idea - unless you’re Miss Henny Penny!

Successful training is all about timing and breaking a movement down into learnable parts. HOCK FLEXIONS are a precursor to PIAFFE, so it’s important that you master this so that you can then move on to more complex movements.

Riders often think that clucking frantically will generate energy and get their horses to lift their hind legs. The reality is that this often ends up making the horses nervous as they frantically move around like a cat on a hot tin roof!

In the Summer Season, Jenku trained Jack to do a static hock flexion. In this video you will learn how to build on that, and start to add forward steps to the movement.

You will see that Jack is allowed to make mistakes, this is normal. If you were playing the violins, you would hit thousands of false notes, but each day you would improve.

The same applies to your horse. If he makes a mistake, ignore the unwanted behaviour and focus on the positive elements that he offers you. The more you focus on the positive tries, you’ll be surprised to note how much more frequent they are.

The secret's out! Top riders train 'In-Hand' to enhance their performance. Now you can learn how to do it yourself! Every video is packed with educational fun, and magical moments that are easy to follow and execute. Enjoy! www.adventureswithjenku.com/pages/in-hand

28/10/2025

What I LOVE about this video is learning how to put all the different lateral movements together and discovering that MAGICAL 'feeling' in your hands - that moment when your horse softens, and lets you know that he’s found his best balance. This truly is DANCING with your horse!

In our previous videos, Jack has learned shoulder in, renvers and travers as separate exercises, so combining them is just a matter of stringing the separate components together.

These are not just fancy moves for the sake of it. 'Flexibility increases relaxation and relaxation increases flexibility' so for a highly-geared horse such as Jack, doing these exercises helps him access the parasympathetic state of his autonomic nervous system. This allows the powerful V8 engine running inside him to go from full throttle to a slower idle!

You will see how completely thrilled I am with Jack’s progress. He’s short-coupled and stiff, so this lateral work is excellent for his flexibility and you can really see how he loosens up as the lesson progresses.

The secret's out! Top riders train 'In-Hand' to enhance their performance. Now you can learn how to do it yourself! Every video is packed with educational fun, and magical moments that are easy to follow and execute. Enjoy! www.adventureswithjenku.com/pages/in-hand

27/10/2025

In this video you’ll start by learning how to do TRAVERS in-hand along the wall. Then, when you’ve got this nice and solid, Jenku shows us how you can move it away from the wall, and start doing some intricate patterns which is very exciting.

This will include HALF PASS, which is simply travers on a diagonal line. The trick is to break the movements down into smaller, learnable parts and then like a jigsaw puzzle, you can put all the parts together. Get the bend and ask the hind legs to step sideways.

The bit, reins, your body and whip all create a ‘mould’ for your horse. When you’re training, every 'mould' should feel the same. Every time your horse's body takes the travers shape, you click & reward and say “Yes!”. By training sympathetically and for relaxation, it will soon be comfortable for your horse and they assume the shape willingly.

Relaxation is your number 1 criteria. Everything follows from there. In the end you can really see how super soft and light Jack looks and when it comes to translating the movement under saddle, he’ll already know just how his body should feel and it will be a job well done.

The secret's out! Top riders train 'In-Hand' to enhance their performance. Now you can learn how to do it yourself! Every video is packed with educational fun, and magical moments that are easy to follow and execute. Enjoy! www.adventureswithjenku.com/pages/in-hand

Address


Telephone

+447773322881

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Dressage Adventures posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

  • Want your business to be the top-listed Pet Store/pet Service?

Share

Together We Can

Our Story

In 2018 Jenku was touring the UK when he visited Mount Pleasant Equestrian in Cambridgeshire. The yard is owned by former film producer Tracy Fall; ’Jenku is so entertaining to watch. I love how he mimics what the horse is thinking.’ As the clinic progressed, more and more clients gathered to watch. Everyone loved it.

As a thank you for such a wonderful enriching experience, Tracy sent Jenku a film documenting the events of the day. Unbeknown to her, Jenku had been searching for a film maker for many years, and so ‘Adventures with Jenku’ began.

Tracy is a British Dressage coach, group 3 rider, and proud owner of four warmblood dressage horses, each with very different strengths, weaknesses, and personalities. Our online lessons show how Jenku has helped each horse overcome their weaknesses using four key training disciplines; scatterproof training, lungeing, in hand, and ridden.