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Rick's most important lessons to me:

1- If you don't want to hit your horse, you have to hit your horse. Translated: be firm and direct(but 'don't be nasty' is all over his videos and needs no further comment). Your horses will appreciate it- and mine do. Watch the Stupid husband videos.

2- Get t...

On utube there is a Pavarotti interview about the history of his career etc, and he states that in the early 60's the opera world was getting to know 3 very good and upcoming young tenors- Domingo, Aragall and Pavarotti, and Pavarotti throws in a little phrase 'Of the three, Aragall was the best...

On watching so many of your videos I have said to myself 'If this guy would just calm down a little, his videos would be so much better'. Now comes this one, and the stupid husband and lunging seem to have wound you tighter than ever. The result is, to me, the clearest, most direct, emphatic, and...

At 1:13, on a horse that is clearly distraught and needs to be more reasonably handled, she simultaneously pulls on the rein and kicks him hard and deep at least twice with large, sharp spurs. How dumb can anyone be? And what is the horse to do? He doesn't know what she wants, so he goes nuts. An...

Hard to be sure from this video I am correct, but notice: the last couple of steps in every slide are onto the left front foot, and on the back-up, the right foot is dragged, not lifted and placed. On the turns the weight is preferentially put on the left. This behavior and the wrap on the right ...

In this production Scotto sang both Suor Angelica and Lauretta (and I think also Georgetta of Il Tabarro). The performance we are seeing came right after she had delivered Angelica in one of the greatest performances you will ever see- good excerpts are on utube. So, if she sounds a little ragged...

Folks: don't let the lecture format and video quality fool you. Watch this entire series. These are the best horse training videos on utube.

Not sure I agree she is telling stallion to move off. I think her instructions are to the foal. She moves him away from the stallion (usually, but not always) and she usually keeps herself between them. If she wanted the stallion to move away, she could definitely tell him to, but she doesn't. My...

And he doesn't even "slide" correctly. If you do want to glissando, you do it with your arm, keeping the position of the hand relative to the arm constant. Here, he just pushes the finger up and down the board by flexion of the wrist. All the "ExpertVillage" cello postings I have watched show inc...