Agenda/Programs
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University Education Sessions
Ann Guptill
Sandy Howard
Tigger Montague
Fabulous Freestyles; Hot Tips from Top Sources
Featuring Terry Ciotti Gallo, Ann Guptill, Sandy Howard and Tigger Montague
A fabulous freestyle has more than great execution. It has solid choreographic design of appropriately chosen elements. Its music is thematic, well edited and suitable for the horse. Can riders do this themselves? Yes, but first they must be informed.
Terry Ciotti Gallo
Jane Savoie Finding Emotional Balance
Featuring Jane Savoie
Your emotional balance is essential to riding, training, and competing successfully. You need to be in control of yourself emotionally before you can expect to be in charge of a 1000-pound horse.
You DON’T have to be a victim of your emotions. In this lecture you’ll learn:
- How to change your attitude quickly and easily by changing your physiology and changing your focus.
- How to squash the “fear gremlins” with the Swish pattern, Advance and Retreat, and impossibly tiny no-fail bay steps.
- How to “anchor” empowering emotions with a snap of your fingers.
Dr. Hilary Clayton Balanced Rider - Balanced Horse
Featuring Dr. Hilary Clayton
Balance is an essential component of dressage performance. We see it, we feel it, we adjust it and we work on exercises to improve it. But what is balance in biomechanical terms? This talk will explore the biomechanics of balance and will help riders and trainers to understand balance from the horse’s perspective. Topics to be covered include the mechanics of balance at the halt, how balance changes when the horse is in motion, and special balancing requirements in highly collected movements. The talk will include footage from the latest research studies in the McPhail Center in which multiple force plates are used to show how the horse changes his weight distribution to adjust his balance.
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