So glad to hear someone of her status emphasize the importance of hacking. I love the two days a week hacking, three days in a row schooling and a day off. Hacking builds physical, mental and emotional soundness in dressage horses.
Amen. It is a risk, but the benefits outweigh the risk. Show horses need to just be horses! They need to go out with a rider, have fun & hang out in the in the pasture. When horses have periods of freedom of movement, they relearn how to carry themselves, maintain their own balance on uneven ground, and transport the joy of natural movement into their training. And it's so important to have that day off. I love that you keep your schooling lessons to 45 minutes. I really believe these are vital aspects of the success of your Equestrian Center.
Another excellent example as to why Charlotte and Carl are such a gift to the dressage world. So many competition horses get wrapped in cotton wool and aren’t allowed out! My horses are schooled 4 times a week (including a lesson and also pole work) and then hacked once or twice a week depending on whether I’m competing or not. Also get regular trips to the beach or all weather gallops just to let them canter freely and have some fun! Of course they are also turned out each day and enjoy daily massages along with regular physio and shiatsu. Horses are athletes and you have to treat them as such, but it is also important to allow them to be horses!
It amazes me the amount of dressage riders that forget to take their horse outside of the arena. I try to hack my mare out at least once a week, though in the winter that can be hard when we have 11 inches of snow! I also do a jump school once a week to give her mind and my mind a break while still doing something productive and increasing our fitness.
Exactly 💯. I am so OLD school I remember every dressage or instructor emphasized the importance of hacking and trail riding and mixing it up for serious dressage riders. I recall horses like Seldom Seen a small Connemara ridden by Linden Gray making it to top of dressage. Hilda Gurney on her back yard Appy doing wonders in dressage. I remember when horses in dressage ring were not wound up tighter than a two dollar watch and the point was to save the horse and be classical not look like a bent pretzel to serve the latest fad of some group or style that had no real concern for the welfare of the horse or what dressage was really about. Am happy Dujardin is not among the insanity of the hyper flexion rolkur crowd. Hope trends swing back to classical and all around common sense. Dressage is looking pretty pathetic at the moment and not the classical graceful sensible equestrian ART it once was .
This horse goes constantly in a wrong way. Its allways behind the vertical. This is no correct Vorwärts Abwärts. The horse is crampy because she gives no millimeters rains. Sorry, but this rider doesn't ride Classic Dressage. Its the typical Modern Dressage wrong deep riding. Terrible.
She rides correct classical dressage this just isn’t her horse! She is actually Incouraging it here to stretch down an relax the top line on a horse that apparently doesn’t do so very much
@@saarlooswolfhund6237 1:16 of that video horse is also behind the vertical … It is before stretching down in the contact, reins are not quite lengthened yet so horse is behind the vertical
@@gabi400 the white horse is not stretched in a correct way. Its ALLWAYS behind. But I'm finishing the conversation with you, if you don't recognize the difference I can't help you. 😉
@@saarlooswolfhund6237 you only see a few minutes… she is in the middle of teaching the horse to stretch the video ends 🥲 if you can’t use common sense then I can’t help you either
yes and no? shes not rising with hr hands, shes dropping the contact. it's something you start doing more and more as you advance. its generally done in warm up / cool down to encorage relaxation :)
Strange I've seen many upper level riders foreign and domestic and have not seen them do this. I've seen them encourage stretching but never by lowering and raising the hands with each rise and sit.
Bevin Allison She's trying to get a horse she doesn't know to stretch down. Charlotte is fabulous. Look for a warmup or cool down video with one of her or Carl Hester's horses. I'd love to be a horse in their yard!
So glad to hear someone of her status emphasize the importance of hacking. I love the two days a week hacking, three days in a row schooling and a day off. Hacking builds physical, mental and emotional soundness in dressage horses.
Amen. It is a risk, but the benefits outweigh the risk. Show horses need to just be horses! They need to go out with a rider, have fun & hang out in the in the pasture. When horses have periods of freedom of movement, they relearn how to carry themselves, maintain their own balance on uneven ground, and transport the joy of natural movement into their training. And it's so important to have that day off. I love that you keep your schooling lessons to 45 minutes. I really believe these are vital aspects of the success of your Equestrian Center.
Another excellent example as to why Charlotte and Carl are such a gift to the dressage world. So many competition horses get wrapped in cotton wool and aren’t allowed out! My horses are schooled 4 times a week (including a lesson and also pole work) and then hacked once or twice a week depending on whether I’m competing or not. Also get regular trips to the beach or all weather gallops just to let them canter freely and have some fun! Of course they are also turned out each day and enjoy daily massages along with regular physio and shiatsu. Horses are athletes and you have to treat them as such, but it is also important to allow them to be horses!
It amazes me the amount of dressage riders that forget to take their horse outside of the arena. I try to hack my mare out at least once a week, though in the winter that can be hard when we have 11 inches of snow! I also do a jump school once a week to give her mind and my mind a break while still doing something productive and increasing our fitness.
Thank you for sharing this. Many more need to hear this!
I would love to work there!!!
I wish my horses tail looked like that
Exactly 💯. I am so OLD school I remember every dressage or instructor emphasized the importance of hacking and trail riding and mixing it up for serious dressage riders. I recall horses like Seldom Seen a small Connemara ridden by Linden Gray making it to top of dressage. Hilda Gurney on her back yard Appy doing wonders in dressage. I remember when horses in dressage ring were not wound up tighter than a two dollar watch and the point was to save the horse and be classical not look like a bent pretzel to serve the latest fad of some group or style that had no real concern for the welfare of the horse or what dressage was really about. Am happy Dujardin is not among the insanity of the hyper flexion rolkur crowd. Hope trends swing back to classical and all around common sense. Dressage is looking pretty pathetic at the moment and not the classical graceful sensible equestrian ART it once was .
Omg great vid 👌🏻
preach
whoo
This horse goes constantly in a wrong way. Its allways behind the vertical. This is no correct Vorwärts Abwärts. The horse is crampy because she gives no millimeters rains.
Sorry, but this rider doesn't ride Classic Dressage. Its the typical Modern Dressage wrong deep riding.
Terrible.
She rides correct classical dressage this just isn’t her horse! She is actually Incouraging it here to stretch down an relax the top line on a horse that apparently doesn’t do so very much
@@gabi400 learn how to ride correct Vorwärts Abwärts
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@@saarlooswolfhund6237 1:16 of that video horse is also behind the vertical … It is before stretching down in the contact, reins are not quite lengthened yet so horse is behind the vertical
@@gabi400 the white horse is not stretched in a correct way. Its ALLWAYS behind.
But I'm finishing the conversation with you, if you don't recognize the difference I can't help you. 😉
@@saarlooswolfhund6237 you only see a few minutes… she is in the middle of teaching the horse to stretch the video ends 🥲 if you can’t use common sense then I can’t help you either
I like this rider but I'm surprised at how much her hands rise and fall as she rises to her trot. Isn't this a basic no no?
yes and no? shes not rising with hr hands, shes dropping the contact. it's something you start doing more and more as you advance. its generally done in warm up / cool down to encorage relaxation :)
This is the current dressage record holder. She’s moving the hands slightly to encourage stretching.
Strange I've seen many upper level riders foreign and domestic and have not seen them do this. I've seen them encourage stretching but never by lowering and raising the hands with each rise and sit.
i do it too but more obviously. it works wonders
Bevin Allison
She's trying to get a horse she doesn't know to stretch down. Charlotte is fabulous. Look for a warmup or cool down video with one of her or Carl Hester's horses. I'd love to be a horse in their yard!
This is Rollkur\LDR. Terrible.