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Re: [RC] Amazingly bad rider - heidi larson

I read he is a polo player and he traded places with a hunter/jumper for a day. 
Wonder how the hunter/jumper rider did on the polo pony?


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heidi larson


--- On Tue, 10/27/09, k s swigart <katswig@xxxxxxx> wrote:

From: k s swigart <katswig@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [RC] Amazingly bad rider
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 7:21 AM
How in the world does this guy
stay on this great horse?
?He rides sooo bad. 

While I can agree that this video gives a whole new meaning
to getting jumped out of the tack, I cannot agree that "he
rides soooo bad."? Without doubt one thing that this guy
CAN do is ride.? 

The fences look to be at least 4' and the horse is clearing
them by a foot or more (on the last one, the horse has
jumped above the level of the standard, which is probably
close to 6') and yet, at the end, the guy is still on the
horse even when the horse chips in and takes out the fence
and drags a pole with him?and even when he gets thwon up
onto thehorse's neck and loses his stirrups (which he
successfully picks up at the gallop while continuing after
jumping the next fence), piloted him around the course and
got all the lead changes, got the distances to the fences
really well (except when the horse chips in) and doesn't
interfere with the horse's jumping effort at all (he doesn't
get left behind, he isn't ahead of the horse, and he isn't
in the horse's mouth).? The only place where he interferes
with the horse is on the landing (which I concede is done
quite badly).

Now I understand why it is that George Morris wants me to
shorten my stirrups, but this guy gives a whole new meaning
to Geroge Morris's advice to "let the horse" throw you up
and forward as it goes over the jump instead of jumping
ahead, which is the riding fault that most "bad" riders a
guilty of.

The horse's ability is absolutely phenomenal.? The rider's
ability to actually stay on the horse and totally keep his
cool while getting thrown out of the tack on every jump is
also absolutely phenomenal.

I would be interested to know if this is the way this rider
rides all horses over fences, or if he has just found that
it is the style that works best for this particular
horse...or if it is a joke (can anybody translate the
Portuguese)?

kat
Orange County, Calif.

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