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The lightness, the straightness, the calm top line and quiet hands of the rider... This is mind boggling. Is it even taught anymore?

Beautiful Work!! Happy and Relax!! to the Full!!.

Viel steifer im Rücken und im Hinterbein ist kaum möglich

It's all about head position. Look how much their head is in front of the vertical. These horses can see where they are going and they can breathe freely.

Achar a distância pra ajudar e facilitar a vida do cavalo pelo jeito não existia. Santos cavalos.

praise sbc willing to allow lgbtq students!

Idiots! This is historical film! It is NOT meant to somehow obey today's standards which suck just as often... LET IT BE HISTORY AND SHUT UP! sorry for shouting

Oh my, how happy the horses looked doing the lessons, not a rider but can see a happy horse

Did they not do piaffe and passage?

His saddle didn't really fit him or the horse. As a result he's sitting way back on the cantle and bouncing around quite a bit. Much of what we see today is actually much better than we see in this video.

Ki ez szelrencségtelen. Ez mi?

He was my coach, I miss him so much. It’s so nice to see him riding, I didn’t meet him and start training with him until after his accident that paralyzed him from the waist down. Yet in a single year he taught me all the Grand Prix movements on my little grade horse when I was 19 years old. I’m 60 today and still training and showing through Grand Prix thanks to his wonderful influence ❤.

If you find the chewing mouth and tail swishing distracting, that is because you are not used to seeing horses having the freedom to do so. That is the price of having a horse with his language still intact. That is why it is important to have the neck high and nose ahead of the vertical, loose noseband, steady hands, so that the horse can actually speak. If there is a mild discomfort, they tell you. This horse wants to go and finds the movements too restrictive and is able to tell so. This is precisely why dressage was considered an art and never ending process of an improvement. To strike the balance between enthusiastic go of the horse with highly restrictive commands was difficult. Today, we take away the horses' freedom to says anything and the only time wee see them breaking down is when they actually explode in the dressage ring or bleed or turn blue. Even a cow can passage if you rollkur her. Tail swishing? Try move your back when you tie your chin to the chest - good luck.

Love to see this, dressage is so stressed nowadays with poor riding. Nowadays horses are flicking their toes, they're pulled behind the vertical, the whole body looks stressed. This is much nicer to look at, because it's horses showing skills that are within their capabilities, instead of horses being forced to make much too exaggerated movements.

Quelle leçon d'équitation. Grand cavalier et superbe jument.

Incredible ❤ Thank you for this video!

Seeing horses move like this, heads properly above the vertical in relaxed positions, is proof that the vertical stuff is pretty much nonsense and has only come about through us overbitting and incorrect training of the horse. Horses are far more supple while holding their heads in a relaxed, natural position, muzzles forward, not pointed to the ground. They look happier because they are; this is a position they can hold comfortably and allows them to look around, you know, like an animal should be able to do. It's rare I think animal welfare was BETTER in the past, but this is pretty indisputably better animal welfare than what we have now in the equestrian world.

I almost started to cry watching the videos. What a big difference to nowadays Olympic riders!

The horses are experts; the riders are definitely not. Poor seats, poor stirrup position, poor reining. All the tail swishing indicates the horse is exasperated with the rider.

Wow looks so much better than dressage now.

Highly skilled & schooled rider on slightly underdeveloped horses. How impressive, still, the competent, relaxed, and athletic seat of the riders on these--aerobically--developed horses. Allows so much freedom in the body despite some difficulties in the neck. Comments critiquing "air time" in the saddle missing not only the pelvic tuck to keep rider centered & reduce impact, the strong engaged back, but more importantly the text stating the sit is intended as a driving seat...not show ready. Nice to see a rider free to follow the center of gravity & to influence it by body weight & core...instead of stuck in a deep seat with only free calves, spurs, and hands. Not perfect here but certainly easier to watch.

Today we call it 2-point position. Every rider shown rocks their shoulders. They need to work on that.

Crazy to see how nice this looked without $10k custom saddles, crazy tight nosebands, and other gimmicks.

Still relevant today.

Dieser Reiter kann den Trab nicht weich aussitzen. Heutzutage würde ich ihm einen gut töltenden ("rack", "running walk") Isländer empfehlen!!

So light and fresh and confident! Today's horses look like soulless blocks of wood in comparison.

This was how I was trained to ride both on the flat and over fences. I wouldnt compete in todays competitive world. Eventing today is horrible to subject these wonderful animals to. Pretty much all styles of riding have become abusive to the horse.

Interesting that the seat is forward even at the walk.

I love the higher headset, the poll is the highest point like it should be and horses are in front of the vertical. See how light it makes them on the forehand, reaching far underneath with their hind legs! So free flowing and graceful. I wish dressage would return to its roots, it used to be so beautiful to watch. 💔

How lovely. Thank you & subbed.

any one notice how they are sitting. 😂

Wow, it's a world apart in comparison!

Wow. That extended trot ❤

Great vintage footage of this art form. To be saved. Thank you for sharing.🐴

I think we ought to download these and use them to train ourselves and the horses! Lol

Seems very old fashioned now

Wonder if the Americans were still buying their horses in Europe, wouldn't have been the Netherlands more likely Germany. All the cold-blood horses in the world owned by the Amish and the Americans still cant breed an American warmblood. Tut tut. I love the relaxed attitude to dressage shown here, yes most of the horses were more on the forehand than hinds but happy horses, very happy horses in the main that were still forward and powered enough from behind. I think that lovely casual forward schwung has been entirely lost in todays dressage which has far far too much tension, tension and tension. You just don't see light happy dressage anymore, always the exaggeration and force instead to create those extremes in movement. I think the last truly happy dancer I saw was Jennie Loriston Clark on Dutch Gold in the late eighties.

This is so good. What I recall when I first got interested in dressage. What the heck happened?

Isnt it interesting that Europe at that time just came out of a terrible war, yet the riding is so damn smooth and the horseys look refreshingly unstressed.

What a massive difference from then to now. Maybe a lot of riders should go back to riding bareback with a simple snaffle and they’d be surprised at just how light their horses will become

No excess tack on sighy and lovely horses with quiet riders.

Oh sweet sweet baby Bradley I love you so. So could ewe please quit being such a TH-cam Autocrat and kiss me on the blessed occasion of our MARRIAGE? Really, wouldn’t another divorce be cheaper than all this delegated cyberstalking? (Not to mention the cost of effing my autocomplete. (?)

This is the most relaxed, supple and quiet I've ever seen a horse and rider perform dressage..this is light years better than I've seen any modern dressage rider in 2023. The difference is night and day.

And NO one cannot teach seat from galloping position. NONSENSE. One can, however, teach posting from galloping position. For some reason, the body gets “Down-Up” better than “Up Down.” Try it! Trainers, TRY IT!

Oh Cooper ewe DO luv me. Still waiting on the ring 💍 though. Or have I forgotten again? Have you married me yet? If so, where was I? Will you please buy me dinner? NOW. I’m stuck in the Super 8 in Monterey, penniless, and my rule is never to shoplift more than once a day.

More like an English hunt seat than today's dressage seat. Very relaxed. Better riders.

How did this just come up on the Que? This. is over 8 years old and only 505 people have viewed this. This is a masterpiece in Classical training? Incredible.

Wow. What a difference in riding and horses between then and now. These horses are so light and free with minimal bridle. They also look so comfortable, minimal stress. It's a look that we all should strive for our horses and as riders. ❤❤

Cooper get out of my face please.

What a happy tail! Klimke would have said ´tail pending’ at every move. Swinging with complete relaxation even through the one-tempis, not wringing at every change as we so often see today.