Sunday, 23 November 2008
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June 2008 • VOLUME 34 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
World Exclusive Sneak Preview of the **NEW** upcoming Nuno Oliveira DVD.
There have been endless trials and tribulations in bringing this DVD together. Exciting to think that in just a few short weeks this DVD will finally be available. Seeing the master at work is always special, but it is especially wonderful to watch him work with some of his own horses at Avessada. The feel of the horses, the feelng betwee rider and horse, translates across the decades. When questioned on pictures and video of him when he or his horses didn’t look perfect, his response was that the true horseman would understand, would see beyond. 
While we wait we have exclusive sneak peek of the upcoming DVD that are preorders are currently being offered of at http://nunobook.com
These videos include showing Nuno” taken at Avessada often at 6:00am when he trained young horses etc before classes, including one fun time where a school master horse is playing with the rider learning flying changes.”
From Eleanor Russell: “In 1982 I bought a video camera and went to stay for ten days in Avessada at Nuno Oliveira's. We rode in lessons and videoed whenever we could. Later, when I lived there for a year in '86/'87, I found Nuno Oliveira worked young horses at 6am - so I videoed at 6am as well. 
I am no photographer but the camera had 'auto' on it so I had great films of him in training.
Decided about a year ago to try and do a DVD of him training his own horses, and as I also had some of his voice saying the aids, and other well known "one liners", we have put this on the DVD as well. The aids in his voice are so clear, you can see him do it as he says it.
Young horses do some things good and sometimes not - you can see the first grey horse struggling with the beginnings of half-pass and Nuno keeps returning to shoulder-in to re-establish the bend.
Then there is Tenor, a bay horse with a mind-boggling/stunning shoulder-in, and as you watch you can almost feel the sit in the hind quarters as he flexes the inside hind leg and brings it under. Nuno was always emphasizing straightness and at the end of DVD 1 I have included a few minutes of a 15 year old student on a grand prix schoolmaster who tries out the rider and you can hear Nuno correcting with his normal patience until it is right.
The second DVD is of four horses with piaffe, passage and Spanish walk.
Because his warm up of each horse is on the old tapes, I have let it run so you can see the warm up exercises which are similar but a little different for each horse. There is a clip of Tenor in piaffe in hand and Nuno takes his hands off the horse and rapport is so extraordinary the horse continues to piaffe while N.O. stands there - pure magic for me. The chestnut horse - so tense, so stiff, each problem compounding each other. Nuno's patience, desire and determination to train this horse, to help the horse with his movements, amazed me. There is a sequence of flying changes. 18 months earlier I saw the horse, begin flying changes with great difficulty and none of them were true. Here you see the horse doing tempi changes and down to one-times, and Nuno reduces the weight on the horse's back to help the changes all be true. Not really attractive but the changes are true. This is what I remember more of him, his pure horsemanship of understanding the horse and his problems.
These tapes are the epitome of his principles of calmness, discipline and love when training horse.
I hope people who see it enjoy watching as much as I did when taking them and when returning to them over the years to learn from them again.” Join us in watching 2 short clips below - one of the grey in shoulder-in and one of the purely magical moment of when during work in hand, Nuno completely releases his hands from the reins fo the bridle and the horse continues to piaffe for Nuno. It truly is a purely magical moment. Thank you to Eleanor Russell for allowing us to share this sneak peek of the upcoming DVD’s with the readers of Horses For LIFE! Pure Magic!
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