Joseph this warm-ups w/commentary concept must please, please become a series! My favorite thing you've ever done; so much learning packed into minutes.
Carl Hester was very influenced by Nicole Uphoff in the nineties they both shared a very similar training ethos not just in riding but horse keeping no over schooling no sitting trot on horses under 5 no lateral work under 4 years warm up in the pace the horse prefers most hacking out turn out all these make a happy horse. Nicole said all this in a Convention I attended in 1992 and people were astounded by her revelations because the supposed German trainers were all about drilling arena work. Uphoff and Klimke made people aware and started a very different type of training the modern dressage horse, Carl continued it!
Hi Joseph I really wanted to congratulate you on your overview of Carl Hester. I also enjoy watching videos back and I think you did a great job in just giving an overview without being judgmental. I will happily watch more of your videos. 👏🤩🇦🇺
Joseph you are just a truely beautiful man……. Passionate drive dedication and a desire to help people reach their goals in dressage or just personal gains, is a very admirable and attractive personal quality. It’s also says a lot about the true content of your character…… well done on your “stickability” and continuity of the content you provide ….. it carry’s both great weight and real value 👌🏾
Always love watching the warm ups! If they let you at the big international shows... and or just the training day! So much to learn! Definitely keep doing these! 👍❤🦄
I've watched alot of your videos but never posted. This format (similar to the critiques of the auction horses) are the ones I find the most enthralling. I'd love for more and more of these. The educational component of your thoughts on the why or the how something might be beneficial (or not) is superb.
I love Carl’s teaching & riding 🥰 I’ve seen him teaching & I met him, he is exactly the same. Carl is a master! My pony mare is the same colour as Carl’s horse
I really enjoyed this warm up of Carl with you!! Great commentary and content!! You really explain what we're looking at and always have a great point of view 👍 💯
Glad you're back Joseph. I have followed you for a few years now. Love your super eye for good horses and your attention to detail. All your horses seem so happy and chilled. Bit of escapism from the UK winter watching yours and Jess's San Diego life 👍🐎🐴xx
This was fascinating. You never see these riders in warm up or at home so you only see the goal at the show but not step by step how to get there. What i found really interesting is he does the little cop out transition i always get frustrated with myself for doing where you kind of lean forward, stand slightly in the stirrups and sigh and your horse stops. Then he also does these amazing on the hind end halts. Amazing to see him do both.
Loved the concept of the video, it’s great hearing a professional comment on a top rider’s warmup! It helps a lot, you get to learn how to analyse the small details and also see the big picture, or the logic behind a particular approach to pre-show warmups. I’d love to see a series made out of this idea and thanks for the interesting dressage content!
Enjoyed this ! Unique and enjoyable! Thank you. Yes more of these types of videos. It’s educational as well as heightens appreciation for the riding ! You’re a great color commentator 👍🏻
Hi Joseph, I only rode horses a little when I was a kid, so I'm more or less a layman. But my enthusiasm for horses is still there. Thank you for sharing the video. I am fascinated by the calm that this horse radiates. Every gallop runs through the horse's body with absolute calm and evenness. Absolutely no rush. Each sequence of movements is carried out evenly and one after the other. For me, that is perfect body control. I can't get enough of looking at it.
I miss your own training videos. I used to love those especially your on hand work. I to this day follow a lot of what I learned from you when I do my in hand training.
This is great! It’s really helpful to understand what you are seeing, as well how you apply it to thoughts on your riding & showing. Thanks for sharing and I’d love to see more!
Love hearing your comments on other top riders. So helpful to have you pick up on things that we might not. Not sure I would’ve picked up on that curb rein being so long! Love it!!
At first I thought, gosh! Carl's hands are super still, and I watched the horse's head. Then tah-dah! - LIGHTBULB MOMENT! Saw that yes, his hands are still but his body is doing the work. Oh wow! So the horse has a super still and soft and consistent contact without being interfered with by Carl's movement. In order to achieve that, he just has to be super flexible in his shoulder girdle and elbows. Perfection!!! Thanks for the enlightenment! :)
Joseph, Super helpful video! I hope there will be many more on the way. I wonder if we’ll begin to discover tracible patterns of ‘good, effective riding’ between all these remarkable riders?
Really good video..I love how you have a joy and wonder in your enthusiasm for dressage. I’ve been reading Alois Podhajsky’s book (a director of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna). He specifically says the tradition there wasn’t to teach leg yield as it was thought too confusing for the horses. I thought Carl demonstrates perfectly here that this isn’t true and you can clearly see the benefits of it. I’ve been watching recently some Edward Gal warm ups/masterclasses. It’d be good to see you commenting on him
Carl Hester is a Master. And I have followed him long before he was famous and have all his books. His ability to make his horses So SUPPLE…. I suspect your weakness in the changes comes from your lower leg is unstable. I think this comes from riding so many young horses. We all have weakness. Carl has a curve in his lower back. He hides it well. Keep up the educational videos.
I enjoy watching horse videos, though I'm not a dressage rider (been years since I've owned or ridden in any case), but love watching this kind of video. I noticed the horse's color as well -- any thought on that? Beautiful. And what a lovely flow in horse/rider. . .
Love this format of your video. Too often there is little explanation what is being done as preparation. We just see the end results. Thanks for making the effort to explain your understanding based on observations.
I love Carl. He such a percise rider. I could only wish to be like that. I have problems with changes my weak point. I have taught several horses Piaffe, Passage, half pass but changes are so difficult for me. Except for 1 horse. With the one I have now, I do tons of counter canter, then half pass walk, canter, walk . I have good transitions but when I ask for change I just change my position from right to left or vice versa and I either get a buck up or late behind or together behind sometimes I get a clean change.. I try to make sure my horse is uphill and forward. I wonder if you do lessons from a video like Zoom. I have absolutely no one to help me here. I'm in a western pleasure trail horse type of area. Any suggestions? I watch tons of videos on the changes but I just can't seem to master them. I have been working on this particular horse on this for 2 years now. I'Pm about ready to just give up. I have trained another horse temi changes several years ago and she picked up on them so easy and they were clean and expressive. But the horse I have now has been extremely difficult. He is a black Arabian he has a fairly athletic build for an Arabian. But I have seen lots of Arabs do great changes. Anyhow I guess I'm just super frustrated at this point.
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