Dressage stable Van Baalen offers dressage coaching in the broadest sense of the word, from taking lessons to achieve a training goal, to intensive coaching of sports careers. Everything is possible. Not only the training of the horse, but also the rider is scrutinized, as well as the whole management around the horse. Training can be done at all levels, with Coby, Marlies, or one of the other DVB trainers.
At Dressage Stable Van Baalen, both horse and rider are trained from a young age. To this end, DVB uses “The Skala der Ausbildung” as a guide. The Skala consists of six concepts: takt, looseness, linkage, schwung, straightening and collecting. Coby and Marlies value this underlying theory, which is used as a guideline by the Fédération Équestre Internationale and the Royal Dutch Sports Federation.
Of course, Coby and Marlies also have years of experience in the field. They have also written books on the subject, namely “The Simplicity of Dressage” (together with Johann Hinnemann), “Dressage for Everyone” and “Dressage with Marlies”.
Daphne van Peperstraten has been riding at Dressage Stable Van Baalen since she was a young girl. She began her training with Marlies and won many medals during her junior years. She has since become a Grand Prix rider and trains weekly with Coby.
Israeli Roy First has been coming to Dressage Stables Van Baalen since 2007 and has been training with Coby for many years. He rides horses from young to Grand Prix. Roy is based in Belgium and doesn’t see himself training anywhere other than DVB anytime soon.