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Videos on Dressage
Following the post on Books on Dressage, I was asked via email if I know any good videos on dressage.
I’m afraid I know even less about videos than I do about books to recommend. On the forums (when in doubt, see what a bunch of stranges have to say…), when videos come up people say “pick your favorite instructional video” and go from there. I can’t find any old threads where videos are discussed in detail.
On a whim, I did try NetFlix. You never know. Turns out, in a search for dressage, Star Trek, the Original Series, Vol. 16-28 comes up. I’ll leave it to you to find out why, but I think we can scratch NetFlix off the list.
A Google search for “dressage video reviews” did come up with a helpful site: Classical-Dressage.net. Scroll down on the menu on the left to find the “Video Reviews” link.
One bad thing about this site: they don’t list which videos they’ve reviewed in any way I can see, so you can’t jump quickly from review to review. But at the bottom of each review page, they have a link to the next video review. I don’t know how many reviews they have total, but they have at least three–just keep reading the reviews, scrolling down, and clicking to the next one.
I didn’t see any other very promising sites in the top ten results (Equisearch has a book and video review page, but it looks like they mostly have book reviews. You can try the site, though, and scroll through all the results–there might be videos in there somewhere). But if you have particular videos in mind, you can always search for them +review and see if anything comes up.
You might also try talking with your local tack store–sometimes, they have videos to rent out. This way, you can preview them and, if you find one you like, you can always buy a copy. If the tack store doesn’t have videos to rent, the owner might still know which videos are ordered the most often–at least you’d know what was popular, even though that doesn’t always mean good.
And a last-ditch option is to try E-Bay. You should be able to buy videos cheaply. If they work for you, great! If not, you can always resell them on E-Bay. You might be able to get back at least part of the cost of buying the video in the first place, and even if you don’t, at least you won’t have spent as much money as you would have buying out of a catalog. Just be careful with E-Bay–most sellers are legitimate, but there are scammers on there. E-Bay has FAQs and help pages that deal with scammers, I’m sure, so take some time reading them if you aren’t familiar with how the E-Bay scammers operate/how to identify a scammer’s auction.
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