Part 3 of my write-up from Hartpury International Eventing Forum

Excellent notes. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the effect Luis had on the horses. He is so good at developing the suppleness and quietly has such a depth of knowledge.
 
oldvic said:
Excellent notes. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the effect Luis had on the horses. He is so good at developing the suppleness and quietly has such a depth of knowledge.
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Agreed, he was absolutely excellent. I loved the 'big fences little fences' interspersed idea, great exercises.
Thanks for the nice comment about my notes - I cheat and video the whole thing and then type their words up, so as much of it is verbatim as possible. It's much better in their exact words than paraphrased by me, I think.
my D O'C notes run to 12 pages (eek) but so much of what he said was absolutely amazing, I loved the way he taught too. Such a depth of knowledge.
 
I've built the Luis exercise at home and used it in three lessons and it worked a treat. :) Two were buzzy, forward-going horses and it really got - and kept - their focus throughout, even when we built up to using all the fences in a course. The other was a less experienced rider and it gave her a great feel for rhythm and a regular stride pattern; this in turn helped her jump bigger fences thanks to the small fences setting her and the horse up.

I know he was using it as an example of how to get horses back to a showjumping stride after galloping cross country the day before, but it's certainly an exercise that can be useful in other ways.
 
Baydale said:
I've built the Luis exercise at home and used it in three lessons and it worked a treat. :) Two were buzzy, forward-going horses and it really got - and kept - their focus throughout, even when we built up to using all the fences in a course. The other was a less experienced rider and it gave her a great feel for rhythm and a regular stride pattern; this in turn helped her jump bigger fences thanks to the small fences setting her and the horse up.

I know he was using it as an example of how to get horses back to a showjumping stride after galloping cross country the day before, but it's certainly an exercise that can be useful in other ways.
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That's really good to hear. Can't wait to try it here when my girls are fit enough to leave the ground! I loved the 'it teaches the rider to wait' exercise especially.
btw, I think I owe you a very grovelly apology, it was only when I replayed the tapes that I realised how much Kirsty and I commented on stuff, sorry sorry sorry, you must have been ready to strangle me! ;) ;)
 
kerilli said:
Agreed, he was absolutely excellent. I loved the 'big fences little fences' interspersed idea, great exercises.
Thanks for the nice comment about my notes - I cheat and video the whole thing and then type their words up, so as much of it is verbatim as possible. It's much better in their exact words than paraphrased by me, I think.
my D O'C notes run to 12 pages (eek) but so much of what he said was absolutely amazing, I loved the way he taught too. Such a depth of knowledge.
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Wondered how you did it!!!! Agree David was excellent too. He is very articulate and became a top class competitor by developing a superb technique which helps him a lot now with his teaching. I await those notes with interest!!! Luis doesn't spell things out so much but anything he says is worth listening to and he is a wonderful horseman. His work helps horses on the flat so much too, developing rhythm, balance, power and suppleness. Interestingly both Luis and David spent a lot of time with Lars Sederholm as did Yogi.
 
Just seen these - brilliant thanks! I'm going to have lots of fun trying the exercises in the near future as we left the floor for the first time in 4 months today! :D :D :D

Looking forward to all 12 pages of D.O'Conner! ;)
Thank you so much for going to the effort of writing all these up.
 
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