My Ernest Dillon and BD reports

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Evening everyone

I posted the other week about the possibility of having a lesson with Ernest Dillon and got rather mixed bunch of messages / thoughts / feelings :o

So in true me form booked the lesson to find out myself, I had a day off and needed to fill my time with Saf, can't waste days off :p

So Thur came hair cut ran late and was worried I would be rushing, was glad to arrive at Parwood (amazing venue / yard) had been XC there the week before and the lady in charge met me and reassured me he was running late, what service :)

Saf was tacked up and I got on and went in, was sharing the group with just one other, a lovely lady. I always get that "try to ride perfect" moment hope you know what I mean when you just try to hard, anyway he soon had us working hard on the flat, on and back in the canter then choosing a line and first riding downwards transitions keeping straight then canter walk canter walk canter walk canter before the end to get them to sit.

I was like mega red at the end of this as it was very hot :eek:
So jumping he sussed me very quickly and said that I am a "control freak" :o I know, he said I do to much and just need to sit still........why is doing nothing so hard???
He also told me my horse is neither blind or stupid.....giggle......in other words pass on some responsibility to her :o

Anyway won't bore you forever here is the video taken by my friend on her phone, you may need to watch on full screen but hope you get the idea, I have tried to leave the comments in

http://youtu.be/gLtMTmYccW4

As always feel free to comment away, I totally loved my lesson and will defo go back again, the surface at Parwood is amazing and they are so friendly :D

So that was Thur and today we were at Merrist Wood for BD M75 and AM85

No pics or videos yet, pro ones up tomorrow
M75 had some lovely moments but I totally fluffed the left right simple change, no idea what I was doing Saf got confused and struck of wrong twice :o and she decided she was going to halt early at the end lol so 63.24 for 2nd :D
Onto AM85 I can't do any changes in the warm up she gets wild, really pleased with how she went I again fluffed up 2 centre lines going wide before the 1/2 pass not her fault for a nice 64.12 and another 2nd

So please with how she went the mistakes were mine, oh one last thing from Ernest he said dressage ruins the SJ canter............thoughts :D
 
I had problems years ago with my horse not jumping so went to an eventer for a lesson and the first thing she said after watching me was no wonder he won't jump you ride him like a dressage horse. What she meant was that my canter was too collected rather than forward. Glad you enjoyed the lesson and great results :)
 
carefreegirl said:
I had problems years ago with my horse not jumping so went to an eventer for a lesson and the first thing she said after watching me was no wonder he won't jump you ride him like a dressage horse. What she meant was that my canter was too collected rather than forward. Glad you enjoyed the lesson and great results :)
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Agree and that is what he was saying to mix AM dressage and jumping is not easy, hence why when after dressage I have to have a bit of a gallop round the ring to get forward again and think of it as a med canter lol
Thank you :)
 
We had our Ernest lesson on wednesday, glad you enjoyed it!! And yes, your horse isn't blind or stupid..... I get that often!! I do agree that there are big differences between a sj canter and a dressage canter.
 
ellie_e said:
We had our Ernest lesson on wednesday, glad you enjoyed it!! And yes, your horse isn't blind or stupid..... I get that often!! I do agree that there are big differences between a sj canter and a dressage canter.
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Had fun and really felt a difference in her jump when I let her jump lol :)
 
Glad the clinic went well :)

What a fab dressage result - the competition is usually pretty fierce at Merrist Wood, you should be well chuffed with those scores. :D
 
Glad you enjoyed the clinic with Ernest. Agree completely about the canter. Having just done dressage for years, it took a lesson with him for it to click with me that I was actually aiming for medium canter and not a pretty-but-going-nowhere canter.

Super dressage scores too. :)
 
daveismycat said:
Glad you enjoyed the clinic with Ernest. Agree completely about the canter. Having just done dressage for years, it took a lesson with him for it to click with me that I was actually aiming for medium canter and not a pretty-but-going-nowhere canter.

Super dressage scores too. :)
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Totally! my usual trainer says in a French accent "Clare wat is wiz the dressage canter " so not the first time I have heard it, I need to get my ass in gear lol
Thank you :)
 
Saf said:
Totally! my usual trainer says in a French accent "Clare wat is wiz the dressage canter " so not the first time I have heard it, I need to get my ass in gear lol
Thank you :)
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*snigger* having now met Seb I heard that in his french accent in my head :) made me giggle :D
 
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