I found this a pleasant and interesting to watch

[angel7]

This popped up in my feed today.

Modern dressage needs to go back in time.

 

[ycbm]

The thing that is most interesting to me is how up under the riders' bums those horses' backs are.
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[angel7]

Its the lightness and freedom of the front and the softness I like too.

 

[Time for Tea]

They don’t look strained and unnatural

 

[twiggy2]

It shows how bad things have become in how horses are ridden, produced and bred.
Those horses move naturally, like horses.

 

[reynold]

Reiner Klimke was a legend - 6 gold medals at the summer Olympics. His daughter Ingrid does pretty well at eventing (and dressage as well I think) to this day.

It's not just how those horses moved and were ridden - to get 6 golds the judges at that time were rewarding riders and horses that went like that.

If today's judges stopped rewarding the outright abuse we are seeing then there would be no benefit in the riders riding/training cruelly and no benefit in breeding hypermobile cripples.

 

[Baywonder]

......and both riding in dressage saddles that do not have enormous knee blocks sprouting out like a couple of wings!

 

[Orangehorse]

Reiner Klimke was only 65 when he died, a tragedy that he died so young.

 

[Trouper]

Thank you for posting this - just wonderful.

 

[SEL]

You realise how odd the movement of those big name dressage warmbloods is - all the trot movements here have the matching diagonal pairs, rather than a front leg shooting out like some odd military salute.

The thing that is most interesting to me is how up under the riders' bums those horses' backs are.
.

I remember an instructor from my youth telling me to aspire to the feeling that the horse was having a poo under me!

 

[PurpleSpots]

Agreed to everything.

Also - I didn't once get the sense of 'will it (transition, change, steps, etc) come off', or will the horse miss it, brace against it or explode instead.

Tempi changes looked so free, and no hint of a varying (quickening, tightening) in the rhythm that I so often see in modern dressage.

And in the piaffe, the horses' backs were like trampolines, boinging up and down, not held through the back to get the ever tightening, quickening and lessening steps that I often see in modern dressage, the horse just bracing and holding until he is released from the movement, the tension getting more noticeable the more steps are done.

Thank you so much for sharing this .

 

[Keith_Beef]

The commentator didn't see any tail swishing?

 

[onemoretime]

......and both riding in dressage saddles that do not have enormous knee blocks sprouting out like a couple of wings!

Agree, I call them elephant ears because that's what they look like when they come towards you lol.

 

[Snowfilly]

Klimke also wrote a fantastic book about the use of cavaletti to improve flatwork; he was very willing to look across disciplines.

 

[dorsetladette]

Both horses look happy in their work - not a familiar sight in the dressage arena these days. Well not with the big names anyway.

 

[Baywonder]

Agree, I call them elephant ears because that's what they look like when they come towards you lol.

Elephant ears.... I like that description!

 

[splashgirl45]

[QUOTE="reynold, post: 15841222,

It's not just how those horses moved and were ridden - to get 6 golds the judges at that time were rewarding riders and horses that went like that.

If today's judges stopped rewarding the outright abuse we are seeing then there would be no benefit in the riders riding/training cruelly and no benefit in breeding hypermobile cripples.
[/QUOTE]
Exactly my thoughts , and I really enjoyed watching horses that weren’t being held in a vice like grip

 

[tristars]

Marzog always looked graceful and through

Alerich always looked not quite right in the same way valegro looked, to me

Corlandus was the thrilling one for me, same era,