Because if it translated to competitive dressage, it would be marketable and have a dollar value. Does/could the training of the SRS have a market/dollar value is my question.
Or is saving it for historical value? Sentimental value? Artistic value?
If people want to save it, it would help to define why. It would also help to find a way to make it self supporting (which means marketable) rather than expect a government to prop it up.
no argument here and why more and more people in my area are moving to working equitation. More fun, and you can ride a fun horse rather than needing a fancy horse! The regions who develop Baroque horses did a great job branding their Fieldwork skills as a new sport.
How so?
Competitive dressage has a lot of money: the value of the horses, the value of learning to ride competitive dressage. From a National point of view, many countries also have financial investment in supporting and developing Olympic teams. If Austria could compete on Lipizzaners on the global stage, I imagine it would offer more value to receiving additional support, both from the government and from sponsors.
SRS IS however something I think many people identify as being Austrian, so it is perhaps of value to tourists, but I am not sure if the people of Austria themselves see it is part of their identity.
Apparently the SRS is on the UNESCO lost of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. So is the French school and a Lipizzaner breeding traditions (various countries). I have no idea what a Unesco designation means though.
I donât see it.
I think it would mean the absolute end of the SRS.
Well yes, obviously. It wasnât a suggestion, just thinking out loud. If Modern dressage had gone a different route, the SRS might have been the top of the sport rather than just âhistoricâ and a novelty.
SRS riders train competitive riders, such as Andreas Hausberger who trains Jessica von Bredow Werndl, Olympic rider Marlies Van Baalen and GP competitor Matthias Bouten. Alois Podhajsky was also an Olympic competitor.
We should all go back to true classical dressage and use 8inch shank bits because dressage riders who compete are just so terrible.
Well yes, yes we are⊠just terrible people.
It always floors me when people bash âmodernâ dressage and rave about the magikal and pure days of âclassicalâ dressage. Classical dressage consist of wooden saddles, long shank bits, daggers for spurs, and using the horse as a tool in wartime. If youâre not talking about this, then youâre talking about modern dressage.
I would argue that the Iberian is extremely suitable for competition - the representation of the Lusitano in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics quickly comes to mind.
I think this idea is also supported by the KWPN, the highest ranking registry for WB competitors for 2022, taking in PRE blood stock and making PRE crosses eligible for registry with the KWPN.
Not sure how suitable WBs are for airs above ground, but similar to your questioning, Iâm not sure if the preservation of airs above ground is enough to solely justify preserving the SRS. I think the SRS should be preserved for historical reasons alone, however. I think outside of airs above ground, dressage is extremely preserved in other ways, and despite how much one hates competition, competition keeps dressage going. Knowledge from the SRS has already been attainable by Chief riders and the like training riders outside of the SRS (and also by preserving the knowledge through writing).
I think if the SRS really wants to generate more income, they need to offer services to the public. Watching white stallions dance is not enough. They could offer training, clinics, live feed, online subscription services, etc. I think the only reason they will die is because they refuse to actually offer public services.
I attended a lecture on Working Equitation given by the national champion of Portugal.
According to him WE was started by Spain, Portugal, Italy and France to highlight their countriesâ equestrian traditions of âworking horses.â This was done so they had a field to compete their animals in the jobs they had been bred to do.
This is very controversial within the Lusitano community. If people want warmbloods they should buy a warmblood. There is also a movement in the APSL to select for larger horsesâŠwhich is also very controversial
This is a misconception.
Have you ever seen a âbaroque saddle?â They are actually still used in their countries. Google âcamargue saddle.â Google âPorgueses saddleâ
What is the value of art? After all, the Mona Lisa is just some unknown woman
No one here is doing that. Is it so hard to accept that there is room for both âmodernâ (competitive) dressage, and âclassicalâ (like the SRS)? Putting it in such black and white mutually exclusive terms is wrong.
Those saddles must have been torture
I ride with a woman who trained with Mikolka when he was in Pembroke MA. She is in to biomechanics and said the saddles they rode in back then were ill fitted for the horses. Not sure about the one you picture but my that would definitely not suit my conformation.
I interviewed Charles deKunffy for an article once and he said he didnât subscribe to the theory that competition dressage and classical dressage were two different things. Competition dressage can be wonderful, and classical dressage can be terrible. There is only good dressage and bad dressage.
Paraphrased but you get the idea.
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