Dressage is not boring.
It is simply so complex, profound, and refined that it is often difficult to explain how it works.
One must feel and understand both oneself and the horse. It takes an immense amount of effort, patience, and dedication to achieve complete harmony, mutual understanding, and true connection with the horse — the foundation of correct and high-quality performance of the elements of the haute école of riding.
Dressage is the ballet of equestrian sport —
a dance between horse and rider, both graceful and passionate, filled with harmony and energy, beauty and elevation.
Through dressage, the horse becomes calm, supple, flexible, and free in its movements — obedient yet confident, attentive yet energetic.
It allows the rider and horse to reach and express the ultimate form of mutual understanding between two beings.
Dressage is a subtle interaction between a well-trained horse and a well-trained rider.
Dressage is for connoisseurs —
for true appreciators of art, for the aristocracy, for the elite.
It is for those who, beyond the outward beauty of a gleaming, elegant horse and a proud rider dressed in a fine tailcoat and tall polished boots, can see — or wish to see — something deeper, something more.
