We regularly see lifting the lumbar back given as one of the reasons that rollkur, long and low and deep and overbent is a good thing. Perhaps we should stop a moment and examine the first perspective that lifting the lumbar back is good?

Rather than expecting riders to ride to the rulebook, the FEI systematically is changing the rulebook to fit the riders. What is wrong with this picture?

The riders start too high up on the horse’s learning ladder. As a result, when they hit a barrier, a wall, they don’t have a deep enough insight into the nature of the horse and without that knowledge the barrier doesn’t come down easily.

A former director of the Spanish Riding School on the seat and the one single thing that will make the biggest difference!

Different training methods give us different training accesses. What are the differences and can you tell?

Are they already perfect? Would it be suicidal to critique the SRS?

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