Classical versus Modern Dressage
Video about the comparison of modern day dressage riders to classical masters, clips include Edward Gal & Anky van Grunsven – two riders who I don’t particuarly favour and then my favourite horseman, Nuno Oliveria, it just goes to show that people tend to forget about the real riders and masters of horsemenship and everyone raves about modern day dressage riders and how they ride so ‘well’ if you put clips of the two together, you can see a huge contrast in the way the horse is ridden and how the rider rides, I am not telling people that they shouldn’t like Edward Gal and Anky, but they both use methods which are supposedly frowned upon in FEI rules and regulations however, they get away with this, more so Anky as she uses the hyperflexion method a lot more than Edward. Despite the fact he passed away in 1989, Nuno Oliveria should be praised a lot more than he is, he was a quiet man that kept himself to himself and trained his horses and produced some extremely well talented horses which he loved, but he didn’t do it for the money aspect, the same goes for horsemen such as Alois Podhajsky, Francois Robinchoin la Guerierene, and of course, my favourite, Philippe Karl – who petitions agaisnt roll kur technqiues, these men should be getting double the credit that Anky and Edward Gal get for there work , because Classical Dressage simply is the best- in my opinion