Paul Belasik – Why are fundamental problems persisting in elite dressage?
In part one of this series with Paul Belasik, Paul looks into why the fundamental problems in elite dressage are still persisting... Read Article 13 Comments »
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In part one of this series with Paul Belasik, Paul looks into why the fundamental problems in elite dressage are still persisting... Read Article 13 Comments »
In Whose Hands?
Paul Belasik looks at today's culture of dressage, and worries that the 'win at all costs' mentality is taking over. He finds the real values of dressage in the timeless writings of the great French écuyer, Antoine de Pluvinel... Read Article 7 Comments »
Crookedness: The Shadow Side of Straightness
As he promised in his last article, Paul has returned ready to 'face a beast that has challenged some of the greatest equestrian minds and bodies throughout history. A Beast That Can Block All Your Knowledge of Collection.' Crookedness: Read Article 4 Comments »
Collection and the Neck…
The positioning of the neck is critically important, because the neck is the gatekeeper to connecting the topline of the horse. If the topline can be made to be one strongly connected piece, then if the rider can get the horse to start bringing the great muscles of the hind end more under the mass, the rider has the possibility of lightening the forehand, not by a few percentage points but by an infinite range all the way up to 100% lightening of the forehand, as in the levade... Read Article 11 Comments »
Why Collection Always Supersedes Rhythm
What is more important - Rhythm or Collection? Paul Belasik tackles a question that is being asked more and more often in modern dressage... Read Article 2 Comments »
Paul Belasik charts the heritage of dressage…
Paul Belasik has an exciting new project - a wall poster that charts the historical development of dressage... Read Article 1 Comment »
A Cornerstone of Training a Classical Dressage Horse
We think that this is one of the most profound, enlightening articles on dressage trainining that we have ever published.... Read Article 4 Comments »
Conquistadors and Artists: Dressage and the Military
Did the dressage movements start as military drills? Or is the real story much more beautiful? Paul Belasik challenges the myth that somehow the high school movements were designed to work as weapons on the battlefield. Another challenging article from Paul... Read Article 2 Comments »
NOTES ON PIAFFE
Author, horseman, dressage rider and trainer, Paul Belasik discusses the rights - and wrongs! - of piaffe... Read Article 1 Comment »
How to Take a Riding Lesson and Get Your Money’s Worth
Paul Belasik is one of the modern world's great defenders of the classical principles of dressage and civilised riding, in this new article he points the way for you to get the most out of your dressage lesson... Read Article 1 Comment »