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Oct 6

 Dressage Today Readers report

  posted by helyn on 06.10.10 18:02 as Jean Luc Cornille Clinics




http://readersreport.blogs.equisearch.com/

GET LIFTED
Jean Luc Cornille shares strategies for creating suspension and improved gait

By Lindsay Street
Photo by Dylan Ray


"Be ready to be shocked,” Jean Luc Cornille told the audience gathered at Unbroke Grounds Equine Training Center in Peletier, North Carolina. And it wasn’t long before they were just that—shocked.
In a laden French accent, Jean Luc unveiled his horsemanship philosophy, something he called "intelligent equitation.” It is based on equine muscular and skeletal biomechanics, or the science of motion, the namesake of this clinic and his website, www.scienceofmotion.com.
"A lot of people are doing it (intelligent equitation) —the really good riders are ... but they cannot explain it because it is so non-conventional,” Jean Luc said. "I’m not the only one who’s doing it but probably the only one who explains it.”
Jean Luc uses research data acquired over the past half century to improve the equitation of the rider and the performance of the ...

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Oct 6

 Chazot Piaff JLC In Hand Technique

  posted by helyn on 06.10.10 08:00 as General




This past weekend Jean Luc was away giving a clinic in Canada and I worked Chazot lightly in hand while he was gone. I only do a few minutes a session as I know it looks easy but is very hard esp with a very tall horse! He restarted as he often does Chazot in hand when he comes back from a few days away from us. Chazot was a little cocky and I know when in the face of such a problem Jean Luc does not punish but instead challenges the horse’s concentration a little more. At one moment Jean Luc changed the reins, shifting from the right hand to the left hand facing Chazot and then walking backwards. Chazot needed a few minutes to accustom himself with this new protocol. Jean Luc was holding the whip above the coup touching gently on the left side when Chazot was ...


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