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Christoph Hess

Researcher

Jul 21, 2026

12:55
Yeah.
12:57
At the end of the day, you said everything what I wanted to say.
13:00
The basics are the foundation.
13:02
And without basics, nothing, nothing, nothing will work.
13:07
Therefore, always the basics have to be done perfectly.
13:13
And I think when I look into the horse industry, when I look into the riding schools, when I look into the show grounds, competition show grounds, practicing arenas and dressage arena, show jumping arena and so on, I often see, very often, to be honest, too often, much too often, that the people are training some tricks or they jump fences, but the basics are not okay.
13:44
And when you have a problem, and I don't like the word problem, normally I always say we have challenges, but when you have a challenge with a horse, 99% of the challenges which you have with a horse is not a challenge because the horse is not jumping a red fence or is not doing a quarter pirouette or what else.

11 MINS LATER

25:11
How do you help the rider try and bridge that? Like transferring what I know in my mind into the saddle, because now I'm actually riding the horse.

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