JP Giacomini’s Equus Academy

Jean Philippe (JP) Giacomini is an internationally recognized teacher, training, author and coach.  His latest project is Equus Academy, an educational subscription website dedicated to teaching the classic principles of horsemanship. Among his many training...

The Right Way

On the DressageDisgrace.com site there is a discussion about some videos which have been posted as representatives of the ‘right way’ to do dressage. The idea is to identify riders who are not using rollkur as a regular part of their training program and...

World Cup Travesty

I’m really glad that this incident is causing quite a stir. Here in Tennessee we’re all too familiar with the abuse taking place within the ‘big lick’ Tennessee Walker community. We’d like to think that Dressage riding would somehow be...

Equine Massage for the Performance Horse

Another video rental. This one features the work of Jim Masterson. In this video he demonstrates the Masterson Method for Integrated Equine Performance Bodywork which he developed. Like a lot of people I’ve watched horses getting massage therapy numerous times....

Teaching a horse to stand for mounting

OK I’ll be honest!! I can’t stand watching the little dance of line up horse to mounting block, he moves as soon as rider starts to get on block, so rider stops getting on and repositions the horse, and the whole thing starts over again ad infinitum. Good...