Have you recently hit a brick wall with you training? or maybe that little stumbling block is taking longer than expected to resolve. Everyone can suffer from periods of disillusionment in their riding, where things feel forced and we seem to fall out of ‘flow’. Much like you might experience writer’s block or creative stagnation, [...]

With all the current talk of negative tension and the debate over hyperflexion / rollkur and other ‘in vogue’ techniques Dressage Today has published an interesting article from an FEI trainer with a slightly different perspective. Whilst we might have settled on an approach designed to instill relaxed confidence in our horses, how do we [...]