Private Dressage instruction and training for Seminole and Orange counties of Florida. Also teaching beginners at AAA equestrian.
11/21/2022
New Research on why Barefoot Horses remain Sounder than Shod Horses The barefoot movement is growing amongst top professional riders worldwide, and finally a comprehensive Swedish research project is to determine exactly why there are so many benefits from ditching your horse’s iron shoes and going barefoot instead. By Helle Maigaard Erhardsen Since the Olympic Go...
09/14/2022
The final rider in our Sabine Schut-Kery Masterclass, presented by ShowPlus powered by CaptiveOne, is Felicitas von Neumann-Cosel on Fantastico (Perito x Platina, Opus 72), a 12-Year-Old Lusitano stallion 🌟 Learn more about the Masterclass and get your tickets here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3RBwsqE
Felicitas von Neumann-Cosel has lived in the US for 30 years working out of First Choice Farm in Maryland as an international dressage trainer and competitor. Encouraged by her mentor and employer Gene Freeze she went back to Germany and completed her Master Degree as an instructor (Reitlehrer FN) not only first in the class but also with the best scores ever awarded up to that point. Since, she has trained numerous horses to Grand Prix. With Tonico do Top, a Lusitano stallion, she has won the BLM Grand Prix Championship 4 years in the row, and the BLM Grand Prix Freestyle Championship three times. They also won the Regional Grand Prix Freestyle Championship twice. She has won many championships on horses of different breeds at all levels.
09/14/2022
wish I was there!!!
Show jumping + Miami Beach = 🫶🏼
09/14/2022
08/19/2022
Wisdom 3 is on
Wisdom 3 studies the dressage movements from the athletic demands perspective, how the horse’s physique has to be coordinated to benefit from the gymnastic exercise, and able to perform soundly, effortlessly, and expressing his style.
We start with the Shoulder in as the movement is well known. As we regard dressage movements as gymnastic exercise, there is no chronologic order, Shoulder in, Half pass, and so on. The chronologic order promotes the false belief that one movement prepares the other. Shoulder in executed without coordinating the horse’s physique for the athletic demand does not educate a horse. A bad Shoulder in cripples the horse as surely as a bad Piaffe or a bad Flying change.
The first month we study shoulder in. The second month, flying change, the next month, Half pass, the following month Piaffe, and always from the perspective of the athletic demand and appropriated body coordination. The false belief that one movement prepares the other limits horses and render more sophisticated movements inaccessible for most horses and riders. On the contrary, when the focus is on educating and coordinating the horse’s physique for the athletic demand of the performance, horses can perform as far as their athletic abilities permit.
Wisdom 3 creates a paradox. Dressage movements that cripple the horse when performed with a dysfunctional physique became the most efficient physical therapy when the horse’s physique is developed and coordinated for the effort.
Jean Luc.
08/05/2022
Bellissimo Announces 'Wellington 3.0' Initiative To Transform Wellington From The 'Winter Equestrian Capital' Of The World To The 'Equestrian Capital Of The World' Mark Bellissimo, managing partner of Wellington Equestrian Partners, LLC (WEP), announced an initiative to transform Wellington, Florida, into the “Equestrian Capital of the World” for sport, commerce and lifestyle. 2022 was a record year for ...
08/05/2022
Don’t be afraid to lighten your seat up in a forward position to allow your horse to open his back up and round it more. It’s all about encouraging elasticity in his body and freeing them up!