Learning to understand the canter, provides us with the basis to not only improve the canter and the rider at canter but also the basis to learning and improving the flying change.
An easy way to teach the flying change both to the horse and the rider. Our training methods should also reflect the qualities that we want in that flying change.
The sad quiet loneliness of one horse, the words of a new book and the deliberate play of two groups of horses, teach an experienced horsewomen how one more time she still had so much to learn.
Dominique Barbier – Reflections on French Classical Dressage
In the light of current FEI dressage issues,
Barbier believes that there is no longer any comparison between
“classical dressage” and “modern [competitive] dressage”. “The pure
meaning of ‘classical dressage’ no longer exists in the competitive
dressage arena