Orangehorse
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The Twisted Truths of Modern Dressage: A search for a classical alternative. By Philippe Karl
The book is a bit dense, but certainly worth a read. Philippe Karl has a long career in equitation, teaching and riding including show jumping and the elaborate Haute Ecole displays and was at Cadre Noir at Sammur as a ecuyer and then in 2004 left to dedicate himself to teaching under "The School of Lightness."
, the poll the highest point, haunches low and flexed, strong hindquarters
In the book he goes back to source material and is quite rude in places about modern dressage and judging, e.g. "judges do not know what a genuine piaffe really is"
There are quite a few of these bon mots throughout the book.
I liked the epilogue, where one of his studentsa day and her Halflinger/Holsteiner 10 year old. "Moses never worked more than 45 minutes to 1 hour a day and jumped once a week.. No training aids were ever used but all flexions in hand and under saddle as well as all classical movements were studied. Personally I only rode him two or three times to assess his progress. When they left Moses was capable of: modest extensions, comprehensive lateral work at all three paces, correct isolated flying changes, a remarkable piaffe, a lot of energy, a good spanish walk, a passage ...... jumping 1m20 to 1m30. And all of this with light aids and good humour...."
The book is a bit dense, but certainly worth a read. Philippe Karl has a long career in equitation, teaching and riding including show jumping and the elaborate Haute Ecole displays and was at Cadre Noir at Sammur as a ecuyer and then in 2004 left to dedicate himself to teaching under "The School of Lightness."
, the poll the highest point, haunches low and flexed, strong hindquarters
In the book he goes back to source material and is quite rude in places about modern dressage and judging, e.g. "judges do not know what a genuine piaffe really is"
There are quite a few of these bon mots throughout the book.
I liked the epilogue, where one of his studentsa day and her Halflinger/Holsteiner 10 year old. "Moses never worked more than 45 minutes to 1 hour a day and jumped once a week.. No training aids were ever used but all flexions in hand and under saddle as well as all classical movements were studied. Personally I only rode him two or three times to assess his progress. When they left Moses was capable of: modest extensions, comprehensive lateral work at all three paces, correct isolated flying changes, a remarkable piaffe, a lot of energy, a good spanish walk, a passage ...... jumping 1m20 to 1m30. And all of this with light aids and good humour...."
