WOW

[issywizz]

Ravel France 2010

 

[Hat Dancer]

I like! 




But I want to shoot those perma-barking dogs! 

[issywizz]

I didnt have the sound on 

[Heather]

Thanks Sarah, you beat me to it! Juan Diego has long been one of the riders and trainers I admire most in this world, and he is seriously under publicised. There is a stickied thread on this board highlighting him. But when you think that he is first and foremost an Olympic show jumper, as well as an amazing true classicist, he just astounds me with his horsemanship.

I have long wanted to make it to Northern Portugal to see him- he and his wife invited me to visit, but I have never got round to it. I truly think that even if I dont get down to the South next year, I must try to get to see JD working at home. He is Spanish but lives in Portugal. That long reining work is just so wonderful- the piaffe is perhaps a little underpowered in the first minute or two, but when he has built up the impulsion through that amazing passage, the piaffe at the end is incredible and totally without tension. Superb!

[Wendy]

Georgeous. 

[Ritchie]

That's really something to aspire too  His body posture is so balanced, poised and correct and the contact with the reins so consistent but giving. I too am "wowed"

[winnieandben]

Lovely   

[abuela]

 . .  .SIGH-H-H-H-H . . .

[Trudi]

Lovely  thanks for posting.
Just out of interest could you use this as an example of a swinging back? It might be a good one to use as no rider and excellent quality work  and I missed the 'discussion' I don't see swinging myself because it's not a term that fits what I 'see'.  I can understand that the rider may 'feel' a swing but to the eye, for me, it's not swing (I tend to think of swing as an arc). I'll get round to reading the other thread properly later but looked interesting 

[Amanda1950]

WOW indeed 

[issywizz]

Lovely  thanks for posting.
Just out of interest could you use this as an example of a swinging back? It might be a good one to use as no rider and excellent quality work  and I missed the 'discussion' I don't see swinging myself because it's not a term that fits what I 'see'.  I can understand that the rider may 'feel' a swing but to the eye, for me, it's not swing (I tend to think of swing as an arc). I'll get round to reading the other thread properly later but looked interesting 

Trudi,I would have thought so but then apparently the chestnut Luso in Anja Berans vid who to me shows a truly exemplary piaffe doesnt have a swinging back according to some 
Interesting to see how this horses tail stays soft and low in the piaffe whereas Anjas is held out as are many if not all of the SRS horses,wonder what that means 

I do love this vid,the work is so soft and yet powerful at the same time,great rhythm and great sit and no overly restrictive rein contact.( imo)

[Heather]

As Olav said in that other thread, it is simply not possible in high collection to have a swinging back. I suppose that I have always felt that the swing was the side to side swing of the ribcage, whereas the up and down movement of the spine, I feel is more on an undulation. In piaffe there should still be slight undulation but as the legs are not moving forwards, there is no appreciable swing of the ribcage.

For me, Ravel is absolutely soft and on the aids in this work, no hyped up tension to achieve it, just pure power under complete control but without domination. Just simply out of this world.

[Larri DB]

Just lovely to watch!! Thanks for posting 

[ParisDiamond]

just superb, thanks 

[night-mare]

What a pleasure to watch.      Thankyou