What is dressage? Trainer Christopher Bartle discusses, and Ingrid Klimke demonstrates for him with her dressage specialist, and her eventer:
“There have been trainers in the dressage world, and this takes us back to the whole discussion of rolkur, where you are taking away from the horses, their spirit, their ability to look after themselves, you are internalizing them too much. That type of dressage training is contradictory to eventing, and contradictory to dressage…
Dressage training in a classical sense is all about training a horse to carry itself, to be able to respond to the rider’s direction, but not to lose its initiative and not to lose its ability to be a true partner to the rider.”
Feature is Michael Jung and Sam on their way to individual and team Gold in London in 2012, trained by Christopher Bartle
Read more:
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/03/top-tip-with-christopher-bartle/
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/03/what-makes-a-winner-tips-from-christopher-bartle/
Amen! They are gorgeous 😍💕