A-Tempi flying lead changes

[earlrocks96]

Lol I've played that song on the violin I think...or maybe piano I don't remember.

[StarLine317]

my horse does this all the time...and he doesn't understand why we don't like it on the way to a jump.

[jumpersaw]

Absolutely wonderful! However, I would fear ruining the horses natural rythm at the canter asking for this so often.

[EncoreDressage656]

Horse: ladidadidadida skip skip skip I LOVE IT!!!!

[georgia4rhona]

it looks like its skipping !!

[mizhollywoodx]

the horse just looks like he's cantering! what clean lead changes!

[courtband]

simlply great Diego!!! I love your way of training horses!

[popskittels]

it looks really funny xD

[RWYHunterJumperDPSG]

beautiful...I want to teach my pony to do some lead changes like that lol

[cdjmk1000]

what breed is this? reply me

[SaddledUp7]

im thinking warmblood maybe but iddk

[cdjmk1000]

tnx

[TheBestDamnThing94]

@cdjmk1000 warmblood definitely. but you cannot tell what breed exactly

[cdjmk1000]

tnx

[WhitmoreLusitanos]

@TheBestDamnThing94 That is a Lusitano - Alter Real, and judging by the costume it is probably from the Portuguese School (see the four school clips.) Lusitanos are NOT warmbloods, they are hot bloods and they excel at haute ecole. Just as BTW, the main aid for tempi or flying changes is a shift in the riders weight. The rider's leg movement follows their seat. However, as Empresslllyria has said, it takes years of athletic training to get the horse to that degree of ability and response.

[KadajsKatana]

Wow. He does it so easily..o.O

[tobydressage]

The horse needs to be more supple and allowing of the aids to be less stiff.

[BlueBallerina234]

yuuup i counted 72 also!!

[welovebecca]

I counted 72 changes

[Luv2ride808]

thats amazing!!!!!...i was doing that today but not cause i wanted to...my horse did...and she is not very good at single lead changes

[mimi288]

He looked really restricted in the back end, not so much the front though.

[oOGizmoFreakOo]

impressive, but he is immensely stiff in his canter.

[ThudLuvsDressage]

he might be one of those horses that has the stiff like almost 4 beat canter. very beautiful tho!

[hvaihelvette]

@oOGizmoFreakOo I agree, the canter is too stiff. I think that Klimke and Ahlerich's famous one tempi changes from the1984 Olympics is much more impressive than this.

[equestrianlove56]

Um........ WOW

[NumberThirteen7]

That was great. I can get my horse to do two time changes. He's getting a little too old and set in his ways to learn A-tempi changes, though.

[Hudson2012]

WOW but ya, the horse looked like its legs were unable to bend haha too mucj lead changin

[fruitsalad234]

I can't even get my horse to do one! XD

[MoonAndBack27]

ugh, that's great that he needs a very subtle aid, but he looks beyond stiff.

[Cristinabel7]

Those were great cues, but wasn't the horse a bit stiff for this to be considered spectacular? He was performing the changes, and accurately, but he looked very stiff throughout his back and jowl, in my opinion anyway.

[Michaela2kaii8]

omgosh the horses looks real stif

[lemurs366]

wow, the horse makes them look SO effortless!

[kashi239]

I counted 74 changes. Wow.

[EbonyFriesian]

wow, I couldn't even see the lead change cues from the rider!

[EmpressIllyria]

They are very subtle, but you can watch the leg swing just slightly prior to the lead change, as well as the rein move slightly out away from the centre possition of the horses neck. It truly is a brilliant display of absolute mastery though, because the communication is such a very well established bodylanguage between horse and rider

[aznshowjumperSL]

i lost my place at 60,,, XD

[HexBaby7]

great job good luck counting.

[Jamberine]

im acctually gunna watch that again and see how many changes that horse did!

[amsilverny]

that was great! it looked like he was skipping.

[horsieylover]

That was so cute

[xKharasmaticx]

wow!!!

[xKharasmaticx]

wow!!!

[Onaziz]

Amazing! The rider's cues are so exact, discrete and... effective! Awesome horse and rider! I loved watching such quality riding :o)

[enlighteneduk]

And this horse was 25 years old when the film was shot!!

[Elevageafleurdelys]

Bonjour, j'aimerais connaitre le nom de ce cavalier ??

Hello, I would want to know the horseman's name ?

[EmpressIllyria]

Juan Diego Garcia Trevijano

[Marrx33]

incredible.

[onelasssttime]

I wouldn't say the 'best' mover I have seen.... (But who am *I*?? anyway -- I will just shut up)...

The changes are RIDICULOUSLY IMPECCABLE... Oh Lord.. un-real...bravo.

[JMS1122CED]

Wow, very beautifully done! Horse is very fluid in his movements and seems very well trained. Good rider as well, though I couldn't help but giggle at his costume! lol

[luluowns]

Holy cow. thats the best tempi's ive ever seen. he sat them perfectly to. it looked like the hrose was skipping

[pakatochip]

Holy Crap!! That is amazing!! My horse and I are working on lead changes over fences right now... I hope someday we can do this...

[bndzmnproductions]

dude. i can barely get one change without flying in the air.

i know people who do western riding [its a bunch of lead changes in a pattern] who can't even do that.

[Liv2Ride101]

wow. thats GOOD. that horse is just incredible!!! i want one!! haha!!!:P

[chevy6780]

The degree of balance is incredible!

[milliesos]

the horse is like FUCKING HELL HOw MANY MORE lol

[linemiaole]

im speechless...

[valentino261149]

molto bello.

uno dei più bei cambi di galoppo a tempo che io abbia mai visto.

[hunterjmpr113]

OMG!!!! THAT WAS AMAZING! i wonder how long that took to teach the horse that!

[EmpressIllyria]

The A-tempi lead changes (change of lead on every stride multiple times) require months to acquire (YEARS if done properly, but I have seen in "fast tracked"... but in doing so it looses alot of quality) A display like this, featuring so many in sequence, is the result of MANY YEARS of dedication and maintenance of conditioning. It is SPECTACULAR... fluid and it appears effortless, I've rarely seen it done so well as this!

[luxuria65]

ZOMG, wow! That is some crazy good stuff!!

[petuniamax]

omg. thats crazy. my horse can change leads, but that's crazy amazing.

[EmpressIllyria]

It is a natural movement of the horse, so it can happen on its own when the horse decides to, but under a rider it takes a very long time to develop the proper balance (for the horse) and sensitivity to do it well. Espeically in Tempi (multiples strung together in a sequence).

[EmpressIllyria]

You start by doing bending exercises and circles and cuing the transition from curved left to the right (and vice versa) until the horse grows familiar with the cue to produce a single change of leads, then you gradually (over periods of time ranging from weeks to years) continue to refine the subtlty of the cue until it becomes effortless.

[EmpressIllyria]

It should also be noted that the fewer strides between changes (C-Tempi is every third stride, B tempi is every second stride, and A tempi is every stride) are extraordinarily difficult and represent a significant investment of time and effort to achieve, espeically when done well.

[babybuebex]

woooooo how do u do a flying lead change?