One Decision At A Time: Surviving and Thriving As A Dressage Trainer
This is what the sport needs, those willing to give their lives to it and never quit, no matter what. The investment a rider-trainer has made into their own library of muscle memory and mental maturity by the time they are fifty is priceless and can only be replaced by repeating the decades of work. This cannot be undervalued, it is crucial to the preservation of Dressage.
Laura Graves and Verdades: Busting the Elitist Myth of Dressage
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Protected: As a Horsewoman, I Would Like to Welcome PETA To Our Industry
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The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Dressage Riders by Nancy Kotting
“The work is a continuum, each ride building upon the last. There are no short cuts. You cannot buy it, you have to make it with consistent, correct work, realizing nobody can do it for you. The amount of success you have as a rider is directly related to the amount of effort you put into it. Rome was not built in a day and neither is a Grand Prix rider/trainer, nor a Grand Prix horse. Get up, dress up, show up and put in another day’s work. Then do it again, and again and…again. The river of trying never stops flowing.”