Last week I had two days training with Francis Verbeek, she is a Dutch trainer and also an O Judge. My only other encounter with her had been on my selection trial for World Class when I remember her yelling during my medium trot 'more.....more....more!' We were already going full throttle, then she yelled ' now extended trot', all I could think was ' there isn't anymore!!' but I didn't think saying so would help with my selection much!
So this time with the dread of extended trot I quickly suggested that I needed to work on my canter and one time changes! We had two great sessions, she is such a positive and enthusastic trainer, demanding but quick to get excited about the good moments. She focussed on correct bending, quality of paces and throughness. She encouraged me to stay more in control of the one time changes by using only seat aids to reduce the reaction and keep him from flying so high and to decide before starting exactly how many I was going to ride so that he didn't take over. Then with the piaffe/passage we were to do transitions into piaffe for only one or two strides so that he didn't get stuck behind my leg. Without one step of walk in 45 mins we both feeling a little stiff the next day for our 8am lesson but we soon loosened up to produce some much improved work. Francis is hopefully back in October for another squad session so I'd better get training hard!
So this time with the dread of extended trot I quickly suggested that I needed to work on my canter and one time changes! We had two great sessions, she is such a positive and enthusastic trainer, demanding but quick to get excited about the good moments. She focussed on correct bending, quality of paces and throughness. She encouraged me to stay more in control of the one time changes by using only seat aids to reduce the reaction and keep him from flying so high and to decide before starting exactly how many I was going to ride so that he didn't take over. Then with the piaffe/passage we were to do transitions into piaffe for only one or two strides so that he didn't get stuck behind my leg. Without one step of walk in 45 mins we both feeling a little stiff the next day for our 8am lesson but we soon loosened up to produce some much improved work. Francis is hopefully back in October for another squad session so I'd better get training hard!
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