Enjoy the digital BD Magazine Training Special

Introducing the first ever digital edition of the BD Magazine, enjoy our training special featuring some outstanding contributors and over two hours of video content. 

As we announced in December last year, we’re taking an innovative new approach to bring you two digital issues of the BD Magazine this year, using the very best of modern technology to deliver outstanding content to your smart phone, tablet, laptop, or computer.

So, we’re very excited to unveil the first ever digital edition of the British Dressage Magazine, with our special training issue out now!

What's included 

• Warming Up | How to warm up well, with contributors Peter Storr and India Durman-Mills.
• Transition Tuition | Enjoy this grassroots training piece with Jo Swain considering transitions between paces for Introductory and Prelim test riding. 
• Moving On Up | Henry Boswell talks through championship goals and how to train for Area Festivals or Regionals. 
• Pirouette for Perfection | Gareth Hughes shows two horses working through pirouette exercises to improve your scores. 
• Changing Scenery | Louise Bell discusses how hacking can be a great way to enjoy time away from the arena. 
• A Picture of Heath | Enjoy a Q&A on after-exercise care with Louise, considering washing off, rugging up, leg cooling and more. 
• Pilates for Dressage Horses | Gillian Higgins presents some top exercises for supplementing ridden workouts from the ground. 
• Get ahead with Bridles | Centaur Biomechanics Dr Russell Mackechnie-Guire talks through how bridle fits affects horse comfort and performance. 
• Feeding for Workload | Bailey's Jane Buchan considers the changing seasons, workload differences and feeding regimes. 

VIEW THE DIGITAL TRAINING SPECIAL

An Innovative New Approach 

The new digital special edition isn’t just an online version of the BD Magazine. Every page aims to bring the sport to life; from videos and interviews playing in page, pop out captions, rotating image galleries and moving adverts. Our team have worked hard with Fellows Media to produce a magazine that brings our much-loved traditional format into the digital era.

On the contents page, you’ll find a key showing labels for all the different interactive elements incorporated throughout the magazine. You can either use these for reference before clicking through the pages individually – or use the contents page to jump to the features you’re interested in viewing first.

We’ve tried to create a variety of content so there’s something for everyone – including over two hours of video training to provide extra value. 

We want to share these good training practices far and wide, so the digital issue of the magazine is completely free for all members to access, as well as being available via social media.  If you have a friend, family member or yard companion who’s not yet a BD member, but would benefit from accessing our training content, please send them a link so they can also enjoy what we’ve created.

We hope that you enjoy this exciting innovation and please do let us have any feedback or suggestions for future issues.