New Releases For June
Shannon Peters- USA
Shannon has been an active FEI trainer and competitor for 25 years. She has had great influences throughout her career from "S" judge Debbie Riel-Rodriguez, Nancy Baker and for the past 10 years Obereiter Karl Mikolka of the Spanish Riding School. She has the incredible help everyday now of her husband of five years Steffen Peters, US Olympian.
Shannon loves to both train and teach and finds great joy in bringing her horses from training level to GP, and helping her students do the same. She lives in San Diego, California with her husband Steffen.
- Currently competing Odyssey at GP for his first season, Odyssey is owned by Akiko Yamasaki, purchased from Anky Van Grunsven's barn in Holland
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New Video - Shannon Peters - Shoulders Up
Shannon Peters provides us with another insightful training session that gives great tips on changing the balance of your horse. Her precise instruction explains the aids needed to create a freer moving horse with more bounce off the ground.
Axel Steiner - USA
Axel started riding as a 9 year old in Germany and later attended the well known riding schools of Warendorf and von Neindorff. After moving to the USA in 1961, he competed on his own horses and on horses owned by the US Modern Pentathlon Team until his military duties interfered. He received his first national judges license in 1968, and was promoted by the FEI to Official status (FEI-O, now FEI Five Star*****) in 1988. Axel has judged in 35 different countries, from Zambia to World Cup Finals, Pan American, and Olympic Games. After retiring from the military in 1988, he has also concentrated on teaching, and is now a much sought after clinician throughout the country.
Col (Lt/Col USAF, Ret.) is a long standing member of the USEF Dressage Committee, a judge instructor/examiner, and faculty member of the USDF "L" program. He lives with his wife, Terri Miller, the well known artist and photographer, in the San Diego, CA area.
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New Video -Axel Steiner - Mares
This video is a good tutorial on riding the opinionated mare. Mr. Steiner gives useful information on dealing with the temperament and allowing the mare to succeed.
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Lammert Haanstra-NED
Lammert Haanstra's long and illustrious career in the equine world began with his fascination with horses as a youngster, and his meeting Peter Rinkes, "a real horseman". By age twenty he was working for David Buurma as a groom and rider. He then wen on to take the instructors course at the Hippische Federatie (National Board for Equine Education-Netherlands). He trained several local riding groups (de Tjongerruiters, de IVO-ruiters en de Waterpoorters) and was successful showing at both the local and regional level.
Lammert excelled in training horses and riders, and in his last year as an instructor candidate, Mr. Ruiterkamp asked him to become an instructor at Hippische Federatie. His career spanned eighteen years there, and he was then asked to take charge of the daily affairs at the new FPC Friese Paarden Centrum at Drachten.
In 1999 Lammert began his own business teaching riding and driving, and giving clinics in lunging. His business has expanded to teaching internationally, and his methods provide great preparation for keuring/sales. He has also published "Longeren met Lammer Haanstra", an instructional text with photos of Franke Sloothaak training.
A Free Sample Mini-Clip of Full Featured Video(shown at reduced size)New Video- Lammert Haanstra - LungingLammert Haanstra brings a demonstration about lunging, including how to tack up the horse for a lunge session, what to look for as your horse is lunging. This excellent clinic show us how your horse should move on the lunge as well as the benefits of lunging.
Mary Wanless- UK
Mary Wanless is an internationally renowned coach, and is the author of the 'Ride With Your Mind' books, which have been translated into many languages. She has also authored 8 DVDs. She coaches riders at all levels, from relative novices to two of the top twelve US dressage riders, and some of the Canadian eventing squad. She has B.Sc. degrees in both Physics and Applied Sports Coaching, and holds the BHSI certificate.
30 years ago, when Mary was frustrated with her limited progress as a pupil, she set out to discover how talented riders do what they do. Her guiding question was 'What is presupposed by a trainer when she makes a specific statement to a pupil?' So when a rider is told, for instance, to 'Get the horse on the bit?' , what is the trainer presupposing? That the rider already has these skills (but somehow forgot, or just didn't bother to implement them?!) Or that she ought to be able to do it because it's easy? The reality is that most trainers teach the pupil as if they were teaching themselves. The skill of coaching lies in the coach's/trainer's ability to cross that skill-gap, and show the pupil her own personalized next steps, that will move her on from her current starting point.
Science has now proved what Mary instinctively knew all those years ago - that the world's best riders may have implicit knowledge or 'know-how', but they cannot put this knowledge into words. This is because physical skills and verbal descriptions come from different parts of the brain. The resulting dislocation between expertise and explanation makes it hard for skilled riders to 'clone' themselves - indeed, what they do and what they say they do can be poles apart. But Mary has discovered that their skills have an underlying structure, and knowing this explicitly enables her to communicate it to others. She clarifies the 'how' of riding, making its biomechanics explicit and learn able whilst avoiding the 'oughts' and 'shoulds' that stifle learning.
The result is a phenomenally effective way of helping riders develop both feel and influence. Talent really can be taught!
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New Video- Mary Wanless - Boingy Balls vs Bean Bags
Mary Wanless provides vivid images to assist this rider in obtaining the tone in her body that will allow her horse to improve his movement. She gives great instruction on what to do with a horse that needs to be bouncier in his gaits, and what the rider needs to do to get that from him.
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Nancy Later-USA
Nancy has technically been riding since the age of six months when her parents placed her in a basket saddle on the back of Chief Snooks, and entered her in a lead line class at the Devon Horse Show. Through her youth, she engaged in all sorts of equestrian disciplines, but early settled on dressage and after high school became a working student with first Lendon Gray, then Belinda Nairn and then two-time Olympian Jessica Ransehousen. Nancy is a well know trainer on the east coast and is a trainer to many trainers.
Ms. Later provides a new tutorial with concise explanations and demonstrations of the aids for the walk pirouette including problems that can arise in the movement and what to do about them. The walk pirouette video is very useful for everyone from those just training the this movement to advanced horses and riders seeking better scores.
Oliver Oelrich-GERCurrently, Mr. Oelrich serves as the young rider team coach for the German national team. He is a master horsemen winning titles such as the National Championships and World Championships for young dressage horses, as well as with the Nuremberg Cup in which he presented to Vice-Champion in 2007. Oelrich is experienced at training young talents as well as a top champion himself. He shows extreme focus and patience in his manner and style, both towards the horses and the riders alike.
Mr. Oelrich brings us another spectacular young horse in training for the World Championships for Young Horses. This four year old stallions shows a phenomenal canter, and the opportunity to see how lovely the gaits can be from a foundation of relaxation.
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