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Jean Bemelmans – Understanding your horse

October 19th, 2021
Jean Bemelmans, Master Trainer, tells us: As a trainer you cannot look at the technique ONLY, first you have to look in the eyes of your horse, you have to ask, what does this horse want? Does he want more training? Does he want less training? Is he happy? Read Article Comments Off

Connection – Where to now?

March 5th, 2021
Connection is one of the crucial questions in modern dressage, German rider, trainer and theoretician, Susanne Miesner looks at the issue... Read Article 4 Comments »

Top tip: Stefan Wolff on suppleness…

January 25th, 2021
It's a crucial concept for dressage training - SUPPLENESS. German dressage trainer Stefan Wolff explains how and why to achieve it... Read Article Comments Off

Beginning the Big Tour with some sensational horses, riders and trainers

January 18th, 2021
Brilliant horses, wonderful riders, great trainers combine for an amazing seminar - as they discuss, and demonstrate, the steps on the way to Grand Prix... Read Article 1 Comment »

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

The Classical Tradition, the Training Scale and Dressage Today

October 11th, 2019
This is the final in a four part series of articles that looks at the development of the principles of dressage training from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages and into the present. This article discusses the emergence of the German Training Scale and in a postscript considers the state of the art in 2019... Read Article 11 Comments »

Competition Dressage – and REAL Dressage

September 11th, 2015
Marianne Litchwark trained with the great Paul Stecken, and spent a lifetime guarding the classical principles... Read Article 1 Comment »

A fresh look at the Training Scale With Andrew McLean

December 3rd, 2014
One of the refreshing things about Andrew McLean is that he is quite happy to cross-examine sacred cows, and always prepared to think outside the square. So while for most of us, the German Training Scale is very close to the revealed truth, for Andrew it is just another training method that needs to […] Read Article 8 Comments »