The focus of Competition Driving with Frank Lutz, a three part series, is the training of the driving horse and preparation for participation in a competition.
Part 1 – Preparation and Training of the Horse
A visual guideline to the subjects: competition equipment, registration of the horse, preliminary badge and driving license as well as the present entry system for competitive equestrian sport. This film trains the eye for the evaluation of positive and negative training results.
Well known driving experts give the viewer the benefit of their knowledge. They explain exactly how a training session should be structured and describe the training scale of the horse in detail – rhythm, suppleness, contact, impulsion, straightening up of the horse’s spine, collection with the aim of then achieving submissiveness. Very instructional filming, also from the driver’s box, helps to clarify specialist equestrian terminology.
48 mins. | 
