Whats your opinion of The Kyra Kirkland Training Method?

Question

Do you think there is a better dressage trainer/author then Kyra Kirkland

Answer 1

I think that Kyra is one of the best trainers in the business- and her methods are more humane in some respects than the methods of hyperflexion that the German team is advocating right now. I like Kyra, and her horses are very beautiful and exciting to watch. There are a few people who could be said to be better, such as the late Reiner Klimke of Germany, and the current US coach, Klaus Balkenlkol- but I think that this is a matter of opinion. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder when it comes to dressage- and what is acceptable to one person is totally the opposite to someone else. This is what I have discovered during my many years in this sport and in the horse industry as a whole.