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Title: Mr. Barbier - come back.
Review: Mr. Barbier's Mastering the Basics video was an audio delight. His attitude and approach to lightness and partnership can serve to be an inspirational message to trainers who struggle daily with horses that, through previous forceful methodology, have become lumbering, difficult and resistant. Unfortunately the visual elements of this particular video, at best do not compliment and at worst mock the enlightening narration. His horses appear compressed and over-bent and traveling too much sideways to deliver a light ride. His instruction, although pleasant to listen to, is unproductive and his riding seems thoroughly contradictory to what he is saying. I have had the pleasure of watching his previous videos and they are far superior to this decimation of what used to be the purity of his French Classical work. I fear he has sold out in order to be more commercial. I hope this is not true.
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