Happy birthday, Ingrid Klimke! It’s been another year of kicking the proverbial and taking names, and even though none of us can beat you, we also can’t bring ourselves to resent you, because you’re just so damn nice. But you know what we can do? We can watch you, eagle-eyed, and try to figure out what it is that makes you do crazy things like throw down a 16.4 dressage at Wiesbaden’s Event Rider Masters leg in 2019. And believe us, we’re watching.
Studying the masters is a tried-and-true technique that yields improvement in any discipline – there’s a reason you’ll always spot the world’s top riders lurking by the collecting ring. They’re not necessarily sizing up their competition – they’re learning from them, and amalgamating the best bits of what they see into a better performance when they get into the ring. The best thing about learning by watching? You can do it any time, anywhere, and you don’t need to get on a horse straight away to reap the rewards. If you’re grounded by a shelter in place order, you can still come back even better than your best. We promise. (As a totally anecdotal bit of evidence, I had to go without riding for a period of time a few years ago for a couple of reasons, and I spent my free time watching every video I could get my grubby little hands on and backing it up by reading training articles and books so I could better understand what I was watching, and why it worked. When I finally got back on board? I was able to do things I’d never mastered before. Like riding a shoulder-in to the left, which had confounded my poor, uncoordinated body for years. Just me? Ah well.)
There’s no better way to learn than from the very best, and not only does this video show off a sparkling performance in the ring, it also offers a glimpse of some of the preparation behind it – like the interesting fact that Ingrid was one of very few riders to get off her horse’s back and rise to the trot before entering at A. Does that make a difference? We’d be willing to bet it does.
What are some of your go-to videos for learning by watching? Drop them in the comments!
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