Dressage Misconception #14…

Seriously. They’re really two different things. I promise.
This week’s comic was inspired by a friend of mine who commented to our mutual coach (they had been working on the extended trot) that she finally could tell the difference and that until then she’d “always thought the extended trot was more of a desperate medium.” 😀 I thought that that was actually a pretty legitimate description of some trots I’d seen (and done) over the years while attempting to figure out this whole dressage thing. 😉 Of course even if you can’t always tell from watching, there really *should* be a difference….