Udo Bürger: The Way to Perfect Horsemanship

March 22nd, 2024
This extract discusses the key concept of relaxation... Good performance always depends on relaxation; it is a basic requirement for specialisation in all branches of competitive riding. Read Article 2 Comments »
 

Hubertus Schmidt on Classical Training

January 1st, 2024
Why Classical Training? Listen to Hubertus Schmidt: we have a book, and it says, this and this, that is the right way. It takes you all the way from the warm up – making the horse loose and supple, step by step to the next point to higher collection... Read Article 2 Comments »
 

Miguel Tavora – Remembered…

December 29th, 2023
Six years after his death, we pay tribute to Miguel Tavora. This article celebrates his teachings and the lessons of the great masters whose wisdom he passed on to countless riders... Read Article 5 Comments »
 

Steffen Peters: to be true dressage, we go back to self carriage…

November 2nd, 2023
Dressage star Steffen Peters teaches correct, horse friendly dressage... The bottom line has to be that it is true dressage, that we go back to self carriage, suppleness…” Read Article 1 Comment »
 

Going into Collection, laterally with Miguel Tavora

September 23rd, 2023
A horse needs to be loose, supple, forward, straight, engaged with good balance and impulsion, to start collected work. These qualities are mostly developed by lateral work... Read Article 1 Comment »
 

Wolfram Wittig -The Dressage Breeding Formula

June 27th, 2023
"For me the main target is keep the horses healthy, I'm not focused on low, deep and round or anything like that, keep the horses healthy and make sure you have a happy athlete." Read Article 6 Comments »
 

Throughness, how to get it, how it feels, with Princess Nathalie

May 26th, 2023
Princess Nathalie zu Wittgenstein, has proven herself one of the world’s top dressage competitors, but she is also an exceptional trainer of riders, and that is why she is currently the coach of two of the very top in the world, Cathrine Dufour and Daniel Bachmann. In this article she unravels one of the most […] Read Article Comments Off on Throughness, how to get it, how it feels, with Princess Nathalie
 

Top teacher’s comeback – Leonie Bramall competing again

May 19th, 2023
Leonie Bramall is one of the world's great dressage instructors - now she is on the competition comeback trail. Enjoy her words of wisdom... Read Article 2 Comments »
 

Collection and the Neck…

March 17th, 2023
the positioning of the neck is critically important, because the neck is the gatekeeper to connecting the topline of the horse. If the topline can be made to be one strongly connected piece, then if the rider can get the horse to start bringing the great muscles of the hind end more under the mass, the rider has the possibility of lightening the forehand, not by a few percentage points but by an infinite range all the way up to 100% lightening of the forehand, as in the levade... Read Article 11 Comments »
 

Martina Hannöver – Training the young horse

February 18th, 2023
"There is no secret, the work with the young horses is always the same. To go straight and go forward." Read Article 1 Comment »