Dressage

Dressage Focus

Dressage is all about consistency and style for both horse and rider. Stride characteristics for each style within a gait are vital to achieving a high performance. Considerable training is required to achieve the different styles within the gaits. ETB-Pegasus enables you to compare your performance during training with those at Olympic level and adjust accordingly.

ETB-Pegasus uses 21st century technology to do this quickly and accurately. You can be ready to test in the time it takes to tack up. Just three components are needed and you are ready to go:

4 Limb sensors within 4 brushing boots.

A GPS sensor is mounted on the rider’s hat.
A laptop is used to analyse the data.

Each horse has its own natural gait characteristics. As training aims to optimise these at different, winning, sports levels monitoring them objectively can be a clear aid in the process.

The current, most common method for measuring these characteristics in different horses uses high cost 3D motion camera equipment. This can produce accurate data but it requires a lengthy, laborious set-up in a very controlled environment and you only obtain information from the side and strides that were in view of the camera.

ETB-Pegasus systems not only show you stride information, but the GPS readout also shows where you were in the test at any particular time. This can aid answering questions like: Are your circles consistent, is your horse anticipating, does your rhythm change at the corners?

Freestyle Dressage Riders find Pegasus is an invaluable tool when choosing music to match exactly the rhythm of their horse for each and every pace within any test.