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Collection in Canter with Christopher Bartle

July 14th, 2017
Christopher Bartle on all you need to know abut the canter pirouette Developing collection and the movements required in the more advanced tests. The three priorities, the acceptance of the forwards aids, the slowing aids and the lateral submission, remain so throughout all the work and are a necessary pre-condition to the achievement of the […] Read Article Comments Off

Flying Changes with Christopher Bartle: Part Four

June 19th, 2017
Christopher Bartle continues his series on training up to Grand Prix, in this episode he explains how to train the flying change... Read Article Comments Off

Walk Pirouette and Half Pass with Christopher Bartle: Part Three

June 1st, 2017
British dressage star, Christopher Bartle discusses the next step on the path to collection. THE pirouette and half-pass and the related movements of renvers and travers represent the next step in the logical progression towards collection. During the basic work the lateral submission was achieved by asking the horse to move away from the inside […] Read Article Comments Off

Christopher Bartle – The Next Step: Part One

February 27th, 2017
It’s official now, Christopher Bartle, eventing super coach after leading the Germans to two Olympic gold medals (three if not for Bettina Hoy’s blonde moment in the showjumping at Hong Kong) and one silver, is on the move, leaving the mighty German team to take over a consistently under-performing British team. Read Article Comments Off

Christopher Bartle – Will he stay, or will he go?

October 16th, 2016
At Pau, Christopher Bartle was working with Team Jung It seems that Christopher Bartle’s tenure as the German Team coach may not be over as we all assumed when he applied for the job with Team GB. When I suggest to Christopher Bartle that his decision to move from coaching the German eventing team, to […] Read Article Comments Off

Coaching eventers… with Christopher Bartle

July 1st, 2016
Christopher Bartle is simply the most successful eventing coach in the world today - how does he do it? Read Article Comments Off

Event horses, accidents and collection… is there a connection?

June 9th, 2015
Eventing is in a state of flux: what will the courses of the future looking like? How will the Olympic Games be structured? Will the new four star test work? Some of the world's experts have their say... Read Article Comments Off

Christopher Bartle – At Lochinvar – Part 4

November 14th, 2014
One of the exercises the Christopher Bartle loves to see his pupils ride, and ride well, is the square. “In this exercise you are riding a square instead of a circle, so again what you are doing is getting the horse to accept the half-halt down the outside rein,” he says. Read Article Comments Off

Christopher Bartle – At Lochinvar – Part 3

Christopher Bartle has clear-cut guidelines for the transition into canter and the work within the pace. Little changes in the basic principles, whether the horse is preparing for canter pirouette work or simply finding its balance on a 20m circle... Read Article Comments Off

Christopher Bartle – The Masters

Chris Bartle is a very technical and theoretical teacher. Almost mathematical. He would never stand in the arena and just roar commands such as ‘push him, push him’ or ‘more, more’ as has been seen from various visiting ‘experts’. Read Article Comments Off