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APRIL 2006 • VOLUME 8 • ©HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
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DRESSAGE YESTERDAY
DRESSAGE TODAY
DRESSAGE TOMORROW
A talk, delivered by Dr. Max Gahwyler at the 1993 USDF Annual Meeting
Published in Dressage & CT July 1994
Reprinted with permission - This is Part 2 of a 2 Part Series.
"Dressage is and has always been an expression of the time in which it was practiced, a true mirror of the cultural period, an outlook on life of those who practiced and developed it in its time. This was recognized already a century ago by Alphonse Toussenel, who stated that if you look at how a nation uses its horses, it will show you its character and civilization.
Also today, we are definitely putting competition before knowledge and education, and very few riders make even a minor effort to study, read, and understand the concepts, approaches, and theories postulated by past and present masters. They simply don't realize what they are missing. "
Continued from Last ISSUE
In dressage, the Ecole de Versailles and its achievements were rejected and Andalusian horses forgotten. Baucher presented his new method in circus performances, mainly with Anglo Thoroughbreds, often claiming as his inventions what had been stated by eminent equestrians long before him. Basing his approach on the domination and destruction of any resistance and personality fo the horse, softening of the jaw between curb reins and spurs, it was not surprising that there was an outcry of opposition, even among his own countrymen. Even so, allowed to demonstrate his teachings to the French cavalry, he was never accepted. Ultimately, he gave his critics their due by retracting his teaching method in the appendix of the 12th edition of his book only to promote his second method, which consists of a much softer hand, a snaffle bit, slow progress, and the concept of hands without legs and legs without hands, which is basically nothing new, was never controversial, and was already recommended during the Renaissance hundreds of years before.
The individualism in France, however, never allowed a unified French dressage concept to develop, ....
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