0008: Ron Paterson - The Importance of the Rider's Position (including riding fitness, core strength and stamina) in the Rider and Horse Partnership

The Importance of the Rider's Position in the Rider and Horse Partnership   About Ron - Ron's riding career started when he rode around in bare feet and shorts and rode a pony to school. A chance meeting with an ex-campdrafter and Ekka 'red coat', Bob Williams, led to some lessons and Ron winning the first Champion Boy Rider award at Dayborough Show in 1959. Ron then win on to win many dressage, showjumping and eventing competitions up to and including Royal Shows and has been shortlisted twice for the Australian Olympic Team. Both times Ron was shortlisted for the Olympics, accident and injury prevented his participation. Ron then turned to focusing on his primary passion of dressage. Ron has produced many horses to FEI and dearly loves working with the young horses to create the true and correct foundations that enable the horse to go on and compete successfully to the highest levels. A strong believer that the correct classical lines produce success in all areas of equestrian sports, Ron is able to turn his training and coaching talents to enhance performances in not only dressage , showjumping and eventing, but also in the 'Hack' ring, Reining and Campdraft! His wish is to continue training young horses along the correct classical lines and to demonstrate the success of these principles for all areas of equestrian sport. He hopes to pass on the knowledge he has learnt from the brilliant 'masters' that he has had the privilege to work with.   Ron's Favourite Inspirational Quote - Just do it!   Who Has Inspired Ron - Franz Mairinger - bringing a new vision to Australian equestrian riding and training   About This Episode Ron's passion for the importance of the rider's position as well as the correct application and use of the aids in the partnership of horse and rider is clearly demonstrated in this video. He talks about his early days of riding and competing, his jumping days and how this all led into him becoming a very much sought after coach, coach educator, judge, judge educator and judge mentor.   Time Stamps and Contact Details for this Episode are available on  www.HorseChats.com/RonPaterson   MusicBenSound.com