73-year-old Georg Theodorescu from Fuechtershof, Germany, resigned from the International Dressage Trainers' Club.
Theodorescu, one of the world's most renowned dressage trainers, stated that all concepts of the 'true' dressage art are being mixed by the modern trainers. "Clear definitions along the principles of Classical Dressage on how a piaffe, a circle, a walk should look like are totally confusing for them. There is no straight line anymore," he said.
Fellow world leading trainer Georg Wahl commented as well on his resignation. "He should have left three years ago when I resigned. Modern dressage training has nothing more to do with Classical Dressage," Wahl said in a brief interview.
Georg Theodorescu is a native Rumanian who fled to Germany in 1959. Certified as a lawyer, Theodorescu's best performing student is without a doubt his daughter Monica who won the Olympic team gold medal twice. In 1991 Georg Theodorescu was voted Trainer of the Year by his colleges of the IDTC.
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