Liz Graves Icelandic Horse Gathering DVD

Here we have a great DVD set for the American pleasure rider of the Icelandic Horse!

This is a recording on DVD of the Icelandic Horse Gathering clinic with gaited horse expert, Elizabeth Graves. This clinic was held in California this Spring. If you are into natural horsemanship and finding a true, working partnership with your Icelandic horse, you will enjoy and thoroughly appreciate the contents of this DVD set.

To be clear: This is the DVD, the movie of the clinic. The "CD" is a slide-show presentation of the clinic, along with many pictures of beautiful Icelandic Horses -- it's eye candy for the Icelandic horse fan to be sure! For information about the CD, click here.

This DVD set is a non-professional product; recording, editing, and reproduction being done thru Paso Robles High School A/V class. Despite it's non-professional status, the information it contains within, is worth much more than the price of the DVDs, which is \$65 plus $5 shipping. There are more than five and a half hours of tape, on three DVDs.

At the gathering, Liz introduces the concept of the "Saddle Tolt" gait, which is a slow version of the tolt. It consists of an alternating two-foot, three-foot support sequence instead of the one-foot, two-foot support of the true tolt. This version of the Icelandic's smooth saddle gait is much easier on the horse (because one leg does not ever bear the full weight of horse and rider) and is used by many American pleasure riders who find their horses naturally perform and prefer it.

Liz maps out key conformation points on several horses during the clinic.

Who is Elizabeth Graves you might be asking? Liz Graves is a dedicated advocate for the naturally-gaited horse. She is a gaited horse judge, clinician, trainer, competitor, and pleasure rider with a keen understanding of equine-biomechanics and conformation.

Liz's method and philosophy is to always give priority consideration to a horse's conformation and natural gaiting tendencies. She then helps the gaited horse owner build on those two, basic criteria -- without gimmicks or artificial manipulation -- in developing their horse's strongest, smoothest saddle gait. Each horse is viewed as an individual, regardless of breed or what gait they are "supposed" to do.

Liz has a gift for teaching owners how to ride their gaited horses in a sound and stress-free manner to this end. She is passionate in her quest to end the "cookie cutter" mentality regarding how various gaited horses should move based on the fad and fashion of their respective show rings. Her admiration and respect for the equines she encounters is obvious. This is so refreshing to find in the gaited horse world, and so needed. To find out more about Ms. Graves, visit her website here: http://lizgraves.com/.

The DVD set can be ordered directly by emailing iceryder, or ordering thru SaddleUp Tack at this link to pay by credit card, or this link to pay by PayPal.