It is time to start taking a deeper look at what we see before us. Why is it that one leading horse cannot do something that every child's pony can and is still winning?
We ask an international german judge the question what do you think, what does one say, when someone who we know that practices rollkur is consistenly winning? An interview where the judge asks..:"How brave is the judge?"
The master Nuno Oliveira addresses what happens when we tighten the noseband, how it changes what happens in the horse's body. Something we all can see in this year's World Equestrian Games.
The easy way to fool the judge. Get more marks! How can you make sure the judge thinks that your horse is focused and completely submissive? Or how are the judge's making sure that the competitors never work ahead of the vertical?
We always think of the history of dressage as being so classical. Classical somehow coming to mean good in our minds. When we think about the schools and the masters of the past, when we think about the airs above the ground, all of these mean classical. BUT perhaps not everything is as it appears.
It is time to start taking a deeper look at what we see before us. Why is it that one leading horse cannot do something that every child's pony can and is still winning?
For a dressage that is as beautiful as it is successful. What will it take? Free Article.
Editorial: Can we compare the World Equestrian Games to Kindergarten? To a classical kindergarten? Find out here.
We ask an international german judge the question what do you think, what does one say, when someone who we know that practices rollkur is consistenly winning? An interview where the judge asks..:"How brave is the judge?"
The easy way to fool the judge. Get more marks! How can you make sure the judge thinks that your horse is focused and completely submissive? Or how are the judge's making sure that the competitors never work ahead of the vertical?
We always think of the history of dressage as being so classical. Classical somehow coming to mean good in our minds. When we think about the schools and the masters of the past, when we think about the airs above the ground, all of these mean classical. BUT perhaps not everything is as it appears. 
In principle a horse should not be made to "yield to the leg" at any other gait than the walk.