Dorothy Crowell gives a lesson focused on rider position and footwork. She works with a rider in the jump field to stay quiet in her body and use her seat more to help guide her horse. The forward going horse presents some unique challenges into the fences.
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Rider Position & Footwork - Part 1
Part 1: Dorothy introduces the rider and her horse, an OTTB, who she is jumping for the first time. She opens the session by instructing the rider to make sure she has good breaks and the horse is responding to voice cues as he came off the track a year ago, and is a big, strong mover. They begin...
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Rideability For Jumping, Preliminary ...
Trailer for Olympic Eventing veteran, Karen O'Connor's Rideability For Jumping, Preliminary session. Karen works with a group of preliminary level riders and horses to asses the rideability of each horse and improve it. They work around a course of show jumps while Karen teaches everything from p...
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Rideability For Jumping, Preliminary ...
Part 1: Karen works with the riders to establish a light an elastic contact with hands that are still and arms that are in motion. She works with one rider to encourage her horse to come rounder by holding the bit still in his mouth and using the leg, rather than creating a lot of distracting mov...
