Videos

Training Indeed
It's been a lot longer than I had hoped, but here are excerpts from the December 15'th video. Indeed (Deedles) is really getting the hang of this dressage stuff and is working off my seat a lot better than the last tape. Indeed, December 16, 2006 Due to a variety of problems it's been 7 weeks since the last video - here's Indeed with some new tack to help with an old problem and some new video techniques to help show the details of Dresage more clearly. Indeed, September 20, 2006
7/29/06. If you've been following our progress you'll probably notice that this tape is late in coming and that Indeed and I are in a different ring for this session. We're back in New Jersey vacationing while our search for more permanent training facility continues. Although late, this tape deals with several very common training and riding problems - how to deal with a horse's stiff and hollow side, a horse that wants to run out the gate, and the "give and go" exercise in some detail. I've briefly dealt with the give and go in an earlier tape - but perhaps because it was hot and buggy when we did this video, I had to spend a good bit more time with it here. So, you get a much better feel for how often it is used in typical training situations. What I did show in the tape but didn't explain is that every time my horse does "give" to me, I give back to him - I soften the contact slightly as I ask him to go on.
Another point that I didn't make strongly enough in the tape is that the "give and go" eventually becomes a "half-halt". In the give and go the horse softens to the hand and then is asked to go by the riders leg. As the horse begins to understand that he will always be asked to "go" as soon as he gives, the two become almost simultaneous, and then, he begins to "give" to the hand in response to the riders leg asking him to go. Indeed actually does this once in this tape. When a horse consistently "gives" to the hand as he steps up in response to the leg, the horse has a "half-halt" and the rest of dressage falls in to place. Finally we end up with a little canter in each direction. Generally I'm very pleased with his progress - especially when you consider we're only 3 months into ourtraining program. Here's the link: JULY 29, 2006 tape
The June 15'th tape was taken about 2 months after I started with him. In this tape he's much more forward than he was a month before, but his balance still isn't good enough for me to ride with hands as quiet as they should be. That's just something I'll live with for a little longer. His transitions are getting quite acceptable, and I show you some exercises I call tha lateral engaging step and the schooling turn. These are all greatly improved from the tape of just a month before. I broke this into two sections -A- and -B-. Here are the links: Indeed June 15, 06 part A Indeed June 15,06 part B Here he is about a month after I started with him. He's still pretty skinny and very unfit. I'm working on softness and bend with no emphasis on energy at all. I think this and the June tape shows the value of working slowly and on balance before you worry about energy and impulsion. Here is the link to Indeed May 10, 06 . I have a new horse named Indeed. He's an 8 year old, 18hh SWB by Idocus. He's coming back from a hock injury that kept him stall bound for almost a year. So, this isn't a brand new baby, but he's pretty close. I'm trying to make monthly tapes of his progress so you can watch me bring him along using my methods in almost real time. Fair warning, these are big files and require cable or high speed DSL to view. Here's a short tape of me longing him on his natural circle just a couple of weeks after we started: Indeed's second week .
Restarting Cameo This series is called Restarting Cameo. Cameo is quite a nice 4 year old mare that was started - poorly - just a few months prior to making these tapes. While there are some definite technical problems with these tapes (the audio was missing in two and I had to dub over them and they sound, well, strange). There were also problems getting together to work the horse so the tapes were spread out over a couple of weeks instead of just a few days. However, they do give a good overall view of what is important when working with young horses and what does not matter early on.	Here are the Cameo Links: Cameo 4/18 Cameo 419 Cameo 5/2

My best 90 seconds in the Show Ring Here is a highlight video of an old Grand Prix Kur. It's an interesting clip because it's not often you get to view one-tempi changes that long and straight from the side and the front. My horse staying exactly on tempo as though conducting the orchestra was just a bonus.