08/23/2024
SHOW JUMPING AND DRESSAGE CLINIC-SEPT 7TH-10AM
ONLY 10 SPOTS AVAILABLE-PM IF INTERESTED-MUST BE ABLE TO JUMP AT LEAST 2' AT THE CANTER-RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY
In show jumping, the grand prix event is the sport’s most difficult course — tighter turns, odd angles, higher fences — requiring the highest technical ability from both horse and rider. Grand Prix classes are the most prestigious and challenging classes in show jumping events. It features the highest jumps and most complex courses, testing the skills of top-level riders and horses. Jumps at the Grand Prix level often reach 1.60m or 5’2” in height and up to 2m or 6’7” in spread (distance).
Join us on Saturday September 7th at 10:00 am for a special clinic with Brian Powell, Professional Hunter, Grand Prix Jumper, and 4th level dressage rider, trainer and coach. Brian has had many students in the national year end standings in the Marshall Sterling League. The League provides its riders a unique opportunity to compete year-round and to qualify for the prestigious National Finals at HITS-on-the-Hudson in Saugerties, NY. Brian has competed, trained and coached for over 30+ years, showing across the US. and overseas. He has competed and trained extensively in the United Kingdom and Germany. His passion is helping both pleasure and competition riders get the most out of themselves and their horses. Brian uses the basics of dressage as the foundation of all riding, and through this he is helping riders realize and utilize this as paramount in all riding disciplines.
How the Dressage Training Pyramid Applies to Jumping: Good jump riders need to be able to use their seat, be comfortable with contact, and ride from leg and seat to hand—all things that enable them to collect the stride and bring it back out again. Rhythm and straightness are incredibly important for understanding one’s striding towards the jump. Collection and impulsion play into control of speed and striding and to the power over the jump. All of these things factor into a jumper’s distances, and therefore the quality of the jump itself. This is what determines whether a distance is long or short and whether a rail falls. That said, all elements of the dressage training pyramid—rhythm, suppleness, contact, impulsion, straightness, and collection—are incredibly important in both disciplines, and good technical jump riders understand this well. To train riding correctly in each discipline, in a manner that is more safe, balanced, and healthy for both horse and rider; it is good to build a strong foundation on these principles. A beginning rider can direct a horse over a small obstacle relying mostly on the horse’s training and experience, but asking a beginning dressage rider to collect a horse even into a proper basic frame is impossible without a knowledge of effective contact and cohesion between both ends of the dressage horse.
Brian's experience as a competitor, trainer and coach gives him the expertise we are looking for to help our riders move forward in their training and show ring competitions.
In this clinic Brian will go over the elements of the dressage training pyramid and how it applies to jumping. He will observe each horse/rider combination and help you to establish a better communication and understanding of these principles and how they apply to jumping. COST $100 RIDER/HORSE COMBO
