Part 4: Mark works with a rider who gets tense when the jump doesn't go to plan. He encourages her to relax and explains that her horse is unable to jump when she grabs her mouth. They work on keeping the leg on, keeping breathing and keeping the hands soft to allow the horse to jump, with much improvement. Mark works to build the riders confidence, so they can be decisive and ride forward to a distance, rather than sitting back and hoping it comes to them. He reminds them that if the horses are going forward into loose reins with no contact, no real energy is being created.
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Rider Position & Footwork - Trailer
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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...
