Elmar Pollmann-Schweckhorst is an international rider and competitor with many years of experience.

 

Training the Modern Jumper covers the attributes required to be a great competitor in modern day show jumping. His methods are innovative and his insights interesting. With the assistance of his brother Alois he addresses the problems you and your horse are likely to face at different stages of training and offers a variety of options on how to successfully resolve them:

- Warm-up
- Show jumping dressage
- Enhancing the jumping technique
- Riding tournament courses
- Jumping against the clock

In co-operation with the College for Sport in Cologne, the jump sequences are analyzed with a high-speed camera (250 shots per second), providing new insights into show jumping.

Elmar Pollmann-Schweckhorst, professional riding and training instructor (Breeding and Rearing and Professional Rider of the German National Equestrian Federation), is the author of the popular book Springpferde-Ausbildung heute, published by the FN-Verlag. With many years of personal experience at the international level and combining innovative theoretical insights, he offers riders, instructors and trainers new methods for training show jumpers.