Eventers...If you could have a weekend training with anyone...

Hmmm, t'is a difficult one for me as i don't want to upset anyone, so can I pick 2 please? :D

Bruce Haskell & WFP. Thanks, are you paying? :rolleyes:

:p
 
after my diabolical experience with the EHOA clinic i would only want a weekend's training with someone i have already been taught by and got on with- no more one off clinics for me! :)

so, for jumping Colina Pickles- in one session she has improved Millie and I immeasurably and given me a huge boost in my ability to ride.
I only wish i had booked 10 sessions with her for the same money the clinic had cost me!

for dressage, Serena Pincus. brilliant trainer, gets me riding at a whole new level compared with how i ride at home and i come away feeling really motivated.
 
Mark Todd- had a lesson with him last year and he's exceptionally good, revolutionised my dressage
Mark Phillips- exceptionally sharp eyed and very, very good
Yogi Breisner- again, sharp eyed, doesnt miss a trick
 
Millitiger - just wondered if you ever fed back your thoughts to EHOA and what they said about it. PM me if you'd rather. I had wanted to go but only made the waitlist, but following your comments I wonder if I'd be better of planning something else for next year......
 
Mark Todd

Lucinda Green

KC

Always fancied a lesson with Yogi too.

I'm wary of big names in general but the above i have either heard nothing but good things(yogi, LG and MT) or know i like them from experience (KC).....
 
I would actually like to have a week with the Kenneth Clawson & Tracie Robinson - I loved my lessons with both. My experience was the polar opposite to poor Millitiger's.

Oppps sorry were you only offering a weekend:o It'd be a long drive you know:D:D

But if Kit's offering I would go back to Jane Wallace very happily, I spent a superb week there many years ago having lessons with my 2 horses & riding 2 horses that she had in for schooling. I managed to work hard enough to earn my keep & lessons so it cost me very little.
 
I don't think you can beat the Kenneth Clawson/JP Sheffield double act (well for me anyway. Millitiger will obviously think differently! :p) so out of the people I have experience with it would be them. I'd want to take a couple of horses and maybe ride a schoolmaster too but fill both days pretty much up as I think that the intensivity of it would be as good as anything for me. Obviously it wouldn't hurt to throw Tracie Robinson into the mix either (and not just to keep Joss happy) as she did an excellent job of teaching me (who she didn't know) on a horse that she didn't know and I'd never sat on before - hopefully it would be even better now and on my own horse.

Of the people I have no personal teaching experience of I'd like to give Ian Stark a go. He's always very helpful at competitions etc. but has never taught me.
 
Actually JP and Kenneth appeals to me too. I want to be that chilled out like JP is over massive sjs :p

Mark Phillips would be awesome too, after hearing about it from The Mule.
 
Richard Waygood, he is very tolerant of ordinary horses & works so much on steering & riding a line & all sorts of fun, useful stuff, whatever you are sat on.

Although anyone tbh, I generally enjoy lessons/clinics. Really liked K Clawson & would love to try Mark Todd or Mark Phillips.
 
I don't event, but train with John Bowen who is primarily an event trainer (trains Jeanette Brakewell etc) and I can't praise him highly enough. He helps me an my sister (on the same horse) with both show jumping and dressage and is just brilliant. He spots things nobody else does and explains things in a great way. PM me if you want his number.
 
Yogi!!!! had him with ponies, he was amazing, as was Jonquil Hemming.

My ultlimate dream lessong would prob be on the flat with Ruth Edge, dont know what her teaching is like, but if she could teach me to ride like her, that'd be fab! :D
And now reading this thread im keen on having a Mark Todd jump lesson....!

Also had a clinic with Clarissa Bleekman and Rodney Powell back along and learnt alot.
 
I'd go for a weekend with Carl Hester. When I worked full time for my dressage trainer, he had lessons with Carl every 3 weeks and each time I'd go with him to watch and I have to say Carl was fab!! I learnt loads by just watching so I can't imagine how much I'd learn if he was actually teaching me!
For jumping probably Yogi, I saw him do a demo teaching the YR squad a few years ago at an event in Scotland ( I forget which one) and thought he was great!
 
I had a lesson with yogi, earlier this yr and he was Fab, just some simple but amazing exercises (and u darent not do what he says)!!!

Id love a lesson with Carl hester and Lucinda Green (im going to make every effort to try and get on a x-c clinic with her next yr!
 
Would have to be Ruth Edge for me.......if i could get anywhere near the dressage scores that she posts i wouldn't have to worry so much about the show jumping!! :D


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Have had Lucinda Green, WFP and Toddy,(all brilliant), would love to try Yogi but I'm way past it!!! Carl for dressage or Ferdi Eilberg, both amazing.
Gosh I wish I was still fit enough to have a real go, never mind, I'm going to have a little play soon on my old show jumper!! Yes I will tell you how we get on (not competing just a play......promise.....).
One comment, I find it hard to jump really small jumps, I am years out of practice, but I never could see a stride if it is small, does anyone else have this problem, any tips? I always feel nag will fall over them if they are too small, so I trot in (Bertie Hill advised me this). Works fine. Any comments?
 
Eric Smilely for me please! :)
I did a clinic with him last year which was 4 fridays in a row and it was brilliant :D

Either that or Oli Towened, and WFP, because I have a feeling they wouldnt make my horse try to "conform" to the usual way of jumping! Plus, Oli has a great voice :D


Can I have more than a weekend please? :p
 
Nick Gauntlett and Lucy Wiegersma - had lessons with both and they were really good. Nick was really good at giving me confidence in believing in myself as a rider and i really improved in my flatwork lesson with him. Lucy was awesome XC, i found it great to know that i was on the right track with my youngster as she produces so many.
 
Gamebird said:
I don't think you can beat the Kenneth Clawson/JP Sheffield double act (well for me anyway. Millitiger will obviously think differently! :p) so out of the people I have experience with it would be them. I'd want to take a couple of horses and maybe ride a schoolmaster too but fill both days pretty much up as I think that the intensivity of it would be as good as anything for me. Obviously it wouldn't hurt to throw Tracie Robinson into the mix either (and not just to keep Joss happy) as she did an excellent job of teaching me (who she didn't know) on a horse that she didn't know and I'd never sat on before - hopefully it would be even better now and on my own horse.
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Can I join you please?

This reminds me must do something about the lesson with KC that OH promised me, the Christmas before last!
 
Lucinda Green - please pm me info of her XC clincs if anyone knows - would love to go on one.
Would like Yogi too, and agree, Ruth Edge for dressage would be fab too
In fact sooo many to choose from....!!
 
Like Millitiger I'd like to see a sample of their teaching before commiting myself.

But... would kill for a lesson with Andrew Nicholson, I like what I know of his training philosophy. Would also like a lesson with Ginny Leng/Dot Willis.

Saying that, have had lessons with Carol Broad in the past, both at Huntley and at home and she has the best eye for a horse I've come across, and can adapt her teaching methods according to the horse/rider combo in front of her, so an intensive course with her would probably work wonders. She had me and my (occasionally wimpy) mare popping 1.10m like it was nothing within 15mins whereas my experiences with other instructors (well, one in particular I'm afraid) had us reverting big time.
 
I had a xc training session with Karen Carson on sunday and she was brill was the first time I have heard of her untill then but can't rate her enough she was fab. does anyone know anything about her???
 
I'm not an eventer anymore but if someone's offering and it has to be an eventer ;) I'll take one with Mark Todd, please. I did a couple of clinics with him in Canada and they were fantastic. I've seen quite a few "big names" who know a lot but aren't particularly great teachers - hence my inclination to go with the proven - but everyone at every level went away from his lessons feeling inspired and tremendously improved. (That said, not everyone teaches the same in clinics as they do in lessons - it seems to make some people rise to the occasion but even Mark on half power would be fine. :) )
 
little_flea and I are definitely singing from the same hymn sheet recently - I'd like a weekend with John Bowen too please. He is a fab trainer and explains things so simply that a twit like me can understand.

I last had a lesson with him in 2006 (when my present horse was a 5yo) so I'd love to see what he would make of her now. I wish he still came over to Ireland.

If someone offered me a Lucinda Green XC clinic place I wouldn't turn that down either though.

After millitiger's EHOA experience I wouldn't book onto a weekend clinic unless I had had a one off lesson with the trainer first or at the very least had watched a lesson with riders of the same standard I would be riding at.

Fiona
 
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