Who here is a dressage fan???

Question

I would like to know if you do dressage , like dressage, would like to learn dressage, or even if you have head of dressage?

Answer 1

Yes I do ride Dressage! I love dressage! I have been riding dressage for over 10 years! I love to show off my horses talents. I am working on teaching my 4 year old how to piaff and to do passage.

~ Later

Answer 2

yes (to all those questions)

Answer 3

I don't do dressage, but I like to watch dressage. I don't want to learn dressage and yes I have heard of dressage.

Have a horsey good day!

Answer 4

Heard of it certainly, may have seen it if it is also known as haute ecole as in what the Lippanzaner Stallions do best.  Related in my mind to high performance, well trained equines and their riders in horse shows as well.  Put me in your would like to learn dressage and contact me with a correction.

Answer 5

I love dressage- and have been involved with it for most of my life, well over thirty years now. I currently have a mare that I am working with at Training Level, because she has just started her dressage career ( she was a polo horse before I started working with her last fall) and she is doing very well. Dressage is interesting because of it's long history- it tends to vie with polo for the honor of being considered the world's oldest horse sport. It really didn't start out as a sport, either- it was originally a system of training that was developed by the great armies of Europe as means of training horses and riders for combat. Virtually every move that dressage horses make has its origins in mounted warfare. The world's first and best known dressage coach, if you want to call him that, was the Greek, Xenophon, who lived and died 400 years before the birth of Christ. Considered by most historians to be the founder of modern classical equitation, Xenophon's princpals of training are still used today at the great schools of riding in Europe and also here in the US. There was another great coach that came along in the 1700's, in France- a cavalry officer who is credited with the invention and development of all the lateral moves that dressage horses make today, everything from the half-pass to the shoulder in. These movements also had their origins on the battlefield. The first really major modern coach that I am aware of was the great Reiner Klimke of Germany, who probably won more gold medals than anyone else in modern history. His method of training is legendary, and a version of it is still in use in Germany today. Dr. Klimke was a big part of the reason why Germany has dominated the international dressage scene for so long. There has never been anyone else who could match what he did. I still admire him and his methods- they are still producing great results.  I think you can see by this that I not only love dressage, but I understand it's history pretty well.  It's good to meet a fellow enthusiast.