Why My Instructor Spells Down Transitions

Dannelle riding Blessi in
a dressage test

Blessi and I have been taking some dressage lessons with a local instructor.  Blessi sometimes decides to be extra cooperative during the lesson.  Whenever the instructor asks me to do a down transition, Blessi immediately does what she suggests without me asking him to.. The instructor had to start spelling the down transition commands. We went through the entire lesson with statements like this--"When you get to C, W-A-L-K.

These Icelandics can really make you laugh.