Trailer for top level international eventer, Jonathan Holling's Warm Up & Banks, Preliminary session. Jonathan takes to the saddle to demonstrate his philosophies for warming up and working on banks at a preliminary level. He reminds the riders of the importance of believing in the horse and having confidence that if put on the correct line, they will jump.
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Warm Up & Banks, Preliminary - Part 5
Part 5: The group works through a line of fences including a bounce bank, and a show jump. Jonathan rides through first, and again discusses his ride and uses it to help set objectives for the others. The riders have to focus and fight hard to maintain their line while riding through he almost gy...
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Warm Up & Banks, Preliminary - Part 3
Part 3: Jonathan explains that the first thing that he likes to do when working on banks is to make sure that the horse can walk down and trot up them. He reminds the riders that when they drop off a bank, they must make sure to land into the stirrups and then into the saddle. The group practices...
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Warm Up & Banks, Preliminary - Part 2
Part 2: Jonathan demonstrates the line of fences. When his horse makes mistakes he has an opportunity to explain the importance of letting a bad fence go and riding for the next. He shares his visualization of train tracks, and how once he sets his horse on the train track into the fence and puts...
