Christoph Hess – The Horse Magazine

A Conversation with Christoph Hess

January 7th, 2023
Christoph Hess has been one of the most important influences on dressage over the last 20 years, time and time again, he uses his role as a commentator to emphasise the importance of correct riding, of following the classical scale. More distilled wisdom recorded at Frankfurt Show in conversation with Christopher Hector... Read Article 5 Comments »

Is dressage heading in the right direction?

August 26th, 2022
Christoph Hess has been one of the key players in the defense of correct dressage riding and training, as an educator at the DOKR, a judge and commentator, and now more and more, a trainer. He talks about what is right and what is wrong in the world of dressage... Read Article 1 Comment »

Christoph Hess – Dressage Tests – Do they test our training?

December 6th, 2021
Judge, educator, trainer and communicator, Christoph Hess asks how can we make sure that our dressage tests really do test the correctness of our training.... Read Article 3 Comments »

Kira Wulferding – elegant effective riding works

September 18th, 2021
One of the amazing features of the German equestrian scene is the depth and knowledge, and talent, of its members. Christopher Hector recalls and enjoys the successes of one of his favourite riders, from afar, a few days ago I saw that she had placed third in the Grand Prix at Herzlake, with a score of […] Read Article Comments Off

Basics for Everyone with Christoph Hess

July 1st, 2021
Join a working session with Christoph Hess. Surprise, he works on the basics, and shows us a working session that will help us establish them. “It is easy to explain the theory, it is more important to see the theory in practice. We will see that 99% of problems are basic problems…” There didn’t seem […] Read Article 1 Comment »

What is Collection? With Christoph Hess

June 28th, 2021
Christoph Hess tells us the elements of collection, what should we look for, and some exercises to achieve it - an easy-to-understand guide with lots of pictures... Read Article 1 Comment »

Stretching for eventers with Christoph Hess

December 10th, 2020
Megan Jones and Kirby Park Impress work with Christoph Hess and show us stretching is for all horses, whatever the discipline… “Once again, harmony, once again, the rider is schooling for trust – the horse knows ‘the rider is my partner’, Christoph tells us. “The first goal with this young eventing horse is the same […] Read Article Comments Off

Dressage: Christoph Hess asks do we need more ‘horse friendly’ tests?

October 24th, 2020
Christoph Hess talks about how the dressage tests can be more 'horse friendly'... Read Article 3 Comments »

Christoph Hess talks about the basics

July 30th, 2020
In the sometimes stuffy world of dressage, Christoph Hess, luckily for the world’s dressage horses, directs a large portion of his enthusiasm at improving their lot, not just the way they are ridden but also how they are bred, raised and housed. Christoph has had a wide influence on the equestrian scene for many years. […] Read Article 2 Comments »

A clinic with Christoph Hess: Part 3

June 17th, 2020
In this final part, Christoph Hess demonstrates how the German training scale works with more advanced horses. Great reading... Read Article Comments Off