{"id":59218,"date":"2021-06-11T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T04:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=59218"},"modified":"2023-06-19T11:27:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T01:27:32","slug":"tip-from-the-top-with-dr-dietrich-plewa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/06\/tip-from-the-top-with-dr-dietrich-plewa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip from the Top with Dr Dietrich Plewa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The criteria of the Training Scale: rhythm, impulsion, straight, smooth contact \u2013 able to collect. That is what the judges want to see&#8221;.<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;\">Christoph Koschel tells us: \u201cI got Fantamos in March this year. When we got him he was trained to Prix St Georges, but I went straight to Grand Prix and this is his first Grand Prix season.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dr\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;\">Dietrich Plewa works with \u00a0Christoph Koschel at a Seminar in Warendorf. Christoph is riding the 11-year-old Fantomas (Florestan \/ Pilot). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KoschelPlewaPic1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KoschelPlewaPic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KoschelPlewaPic1.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KoschelPlewaPic1-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/KoschelPlewaPic1-310x300.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Plewa tells us: \u201cWe see we don\u2019t need a double bridle to train this horse. Now Christoph is developing the collected canter we need for the half pass\u00a0<em>(we should note that the horses had all been warmed up outside before being brought into the arena)<\/em>\u00a0but there is no changing of rhythm and the horse keeps the impulsion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MoreChristoph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MoreChristoph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MoreChristoph.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MoreChristoph-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/MoreChristoph-380x300.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see the horse is bent through its whole body with a good uphill tendency. In the changes of hand, we see a smooth contact all the time, and fluent flying changes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2KoschelChange2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2KoschelChange2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2KoschelChange2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2KoschelChange2-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2KoschelChange2-351x300.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We judges often see in the one times changes, an ambling canter as the horse moves to a two beat rhythm. You don\u2019t often see flying changes so fluent, so straight. This horse very well fulfils the criteria of the Training Scale: rhythm, impulsion, straight, smooth contact \u2013 able to collect. That is what we want to see, changes that are fluent, straight and with expression \u2013 without being pushed by the rider. I\u2019m sure he could ride this movement with one hand\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChristophKWalkPic8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChristophKWalkPic8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChristophKWalkPic8.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChristophKWalkPic8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChristophKWalkPic8-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>And finishes with a point scoring walk&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The criteria of the Training Scale: rhythm, impulsion, straight, smooth contact \u2013 able to collect. That is what the judges want to see&#8221;. Christoph Koschel tells us: \u201cI got Fantamos in March this year. When we got him he was trained to Prix St Georges, but I went straight to Grand Prix and this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":59225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1011,2012],"class_list":["post-59218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christoph-koschel","tag-dietrich-plewa"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59226,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59218\/revisions\/59226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}