Nancy Later-Lavoie-USA
Nancy is a USEF Bronze and Silver medalist and has had three horses on the Developing Horse List maintained by the United States Equestrian Team. In 1995, Nancy Later made the USET Team for the US Olympic Festival. Currently Nancy trains in the US out of Heartwood Farm in Loxahatchee, FL and Oak Hill Farm in Pepperell, MA. She is a dedicated teacher and trainer and hopes to find her GP horse to take her to the Olympic ring one day! New Video: Tutorial on how to sit the canter. Nancy discusses and shows how to sit the canter. Emphasizing to let the canter go thru you, not thinking of influencing the canter with your seat. She explains the mechanics of the gait itself. Nancy reiterates time and again to focus on the hind leg, not push with the seat and the importance of half halting at the right time, which is when the outside hind leg is on the ground. A discussion and demonstration of the collected canter, working canter and extended canter takes place with explanation on how you use your aids to achieve all three. Free Sample Mini-Clip of Full Feature Videos New Video: Tutorial on getting the walk you want. Medium walk, extended walk and free walk are all discussed and shown. Nancy emphasizes the importance of not pushing with your seat and using your leg to ask for more. She demonstrates the desired reach to the bit that you want to achieve. Free Sample Mini-Clip of Full Feature Videos New Video: Tutorial on why we use polo wraps and how to properly apply them. Free Sample Mini-Clip of Full Feature Videos
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Walter Zettl-GER/CAN A German dressage rider and Olympic-level dressage horse trainer. Zettl became the youngest person ever to be awarded the German Federation Gold Riding Medal, for success in upper level dressage and jumping for a single competitive season. In 1952, he was selected to compete for Germany's dressage team in the Helsinki Summer Olympics, but was ruled to be a professional rider and therefore ineligible. In 1953 Walter Zettl was chosen to succeed Otto Loerke and Willi Schultheis as trainer at Gestuet Vornholz. In 1955, he earned his formal Reitlehrer certification as a riding coach, and began training young champions while continuing to compete himself. He won several awards in the Bavarian Dressage Championships and the Salzburg International Jumping Grand Prix on a horse he rode for the first time. In 1981, he moved to Canada, where he served as Managing Director of the Canadian I.E.S.S. owned by Hans and Eva Maria Pracht. During his years in Canada he coached the young riders dressage team from Ontario which subsequently went on to win three consecutive team gold medals, one individual gold medal, two individual silver medals and one individual bronze medal at the North American Continental Young Riders Championships. In 1984 at the Los Angeles Summer Olympics he served as the dressage coach to the 3-day event Canadian team. Walter Zettl has been a Canadian citizen since 1987 and today he teaches students across the globe. New Video-Para-Olympian training session. Mr. Zettl leads us through this training session with Lauren Barwick as they work on creating more response and sensitivity with her horse. He emphasizes an active hind leg and uses trot, almost walk, to trot transitions to create this. The rider is encouraged to do this with a gentle connection and soft hands, always remembering to half halt and let go. He suggests using shoulder in or renvere to get the horse using the hind leg...which ever he does better and has more engagement within. Focus is on canter/walk transitions aiming to achieve fluid balanced transitions. Free Sample Mini-Clip of Full Feature Videos
New Video-Training Level Basics. This video with Walter Zettl works on the basics- establishing an elastic and subtle contact with the horse. He asks the rider to encourage her horse to stretch into the contact while keeping an active hind leg. He asks the rider to think be active, be ready, in the walk, so that she can ask for what ever is next and the horse is prepared. In this section they work on getting a good gait with activity and balancing that with correct contact. They move into a bit of leg yield work and then into transitions, again to activate the hind end. Walk halt transitions moving into canter work. Focus on canter transitions. Zettl reiterates to the rider the need to keep the contact when asking for the canter.
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Rafael S oto-ESP Rafael Soto Andrade is the head trainer of the Spanish Riding School in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. Aboard Invasor he participated in three Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. They were also the second best performing Spanish pair at the World Equestrian Games in Rome (1998), Jerez de la Frontera (2002) and Aachen (2006). With Invasor, he showed at four European Championships and finished in the top ten riders in both the World Equestrian Games in Jerez in 2002 and in the Athens Olympics in 2004. New Video-Grand Prix. In this video they work the half pass zig zag breaking it down into different section before putting it all together. Rafael uses some different exercises to create soft even and honest contact continuously bringing the rider back to thinking supple, soft neck, with reach. Rafael also works with the rider on creating immediate smooth transitions from the piaffe. Free Sample Mini-Clip of Full Feature Videos
Jody Hartstone-NZ Shortlisted for Athens Olympics on Landios o and the 2010 WEG qualified rider for Dressage representing New Zealand, Jody teaches and lectures worldwide emphasizing her training based on scientific principles of behavioural theory. "The rider's aids are all trained systematically and one at a time," Hartstone explained. "One should be careful not to apply two cues at once and ensure that the pressure-release aids (reins or legs) are trained effectively before one moves on to subtle aids like the seat. Basically reins are there to slow down, legs to go, reins to turn and leg for yield. Most important is to train the legs of the horse before training its frame. It is very different from what we see in many training yards where horses are sent to. With them rein pressure and reins are no longer effective to slow down the horses' leg. Paramount is self carriage. The horses are taught from breaking in to hold their own rhythm, direction and outline." New Video-Understanding Your Horse's Brain, Part 7 of 7 part series. Classical Conditioning. Free Video shown at reduced size (full size video available by logging onto DressageTrainingOnline.com) 
Colleen Kelly-AUS Biomechanics specialist, rider and judge, Colleen focuses on the science of rider physiology. She analyzes, tests and improves balance, co-ordination and timing of the rider, e.g.:assessing what is putting the horse on the forehand, testing and improvement for falling in & cutting corners, analyzing why the horse slows down for speed sports like eventing and games, improving the independent seat so the rider can give light, imperceptible aids, assess imbalances between the left and right sides, improves specific rider issues such as sitting trot, stiller legs, better hands, and knowledge of correct aids for advanced movements. New Video-Seat and Posture Classroom Lecture. Within this multi-part lecture Colleen explains and shows with pictures, proper vs. improper seat, back, leg, heel, hand, arm positions and goes in depth to explain impact on horse and rider and finishes with focus on the correct position and how to apply it to your own riding. __________________________________________________________
 Charlotte Bredahl-USA
Charlotte Bredahl-Baker was born and raised in Denmark. In 1992 Charlotte and her horse, Monsieur, were part of the bronze medal winning Olympic Team in Barcelona. Charlotte has represented the United States in many international dressage competitions. In 1979, she moved to the United States, where she has been training dressage horses ever since. In 1985 Charlotte earned her dressage judge's license. Today, Charlotte is a USEF "S" judge, FEI "C" judge and trainer/clinician. New Video-2nd/L Level, test prep and instruction on components within second level tests. Focus on getting the horse moving correctly and listening to the inside leg, moving into turn on the haunches, the lateral work, counter canter and simple changes. Free Sample Mini-Clip of Full Feature Videos shown at reduced size New Video-Counter Canter Tutorial, Charlotte focuses solely on the counter canter, showing exercises to gain balance and discusses typical issues that arise during this work and how to overcome those issues. New Video-Leg Yield Tutorial, Charlotte focuses solely on the leg yield, the most basic of training exercises but also one that is so important and used at the highest levels. Free Sample Mini-Clip of Full Feature Videos shown at reduced size | 
