March 23rd, 2017
German professional Stefan Wolff trained with Klaus Balkenhol - and it shows! This gifted trainer is putting the classical principles into practice. Read Article1 Comment »
March 16th, 2017
Story and Photos – Rebecca Ashton Stefan Wolff on Throughness. As the Bereiter for Klaus Balkenhol, young Stefan got plenty of both. Klaus is a very practical straight forward sort of trainer, but he is also steeped in the German tradition and the Classical Principles. After leaving Klaus, Stefan trained in the USA where he competed […] Read Article1 Comment »
April 1st, 2016
Dressage trainer, Christian Thiess talks about Uberstreichen... Read ArticleComments Off on Uberstreichen: The Fine Tuning Before the Concert
August 9th, 2015
Great horses, some great riding and some dodgy judging at the World Young Dressage horse champs and Andreas Helgstrand in huge controversy... Read Article74 Comments »
June 17th, 2015
We are visiting our friends, Johan Hamminga and Jennifer Sekreve in Holland. Outside it is freezing cold, inside you don’t notice the temperature because you are too focused on the dressage brilliance in front of you… Read ArticleComments Off on Johan Hamminga: Sitting in the hall, watching great training – Part Two
May 27th, 2015
Our latest series with the German dressage trainer, Stefan Wolff started with a Grand Prix horse, then a Prix St Georges horse, and now we finish our working session with a Medium level horse, Tanase Peckham’s five-year-old Winterstern. Read ArticleComments Off on Tanase Peckham & Winterstern – Working with Stefan Wolff
May 15th, 2015
Stefan Wolff is the complete professional, and even at the end of a 12 hour teaching stint, he was still focussed, still ready to produce a startlingly good lesson... Read ArticleComments Off on Stefan Wolff – The Art of Dressage Training
April 24th, 2015
Gerd Heuschmann is a unique combination – an equine vet who actually rides… and he uses this knowledge to argue that we must respect the classical principles when we train for dressage. Read Article5 Comments »
April 12th, 2015
Bimbo Peilicke was one of the great masters of German dressage - join him as he gives a lesson to a young rider... Read ArticleComments Off on Belinda Bristow takes a lesson with Bimbo Peilicke
December 3rd, 2014
We so often watch the top German riders working on the Grand Prix movements that it comes as something of a shock to see Klaus Balkenhol's head rider, Stefan Wolff, working with a very very green three year old filly Read Article2 Comments »