Olsen And "The Happy Athlete" - Learning Piaffe

Jorgen Olsen at MasterDressage in Laha, Finland 26.2. 2015 This is a sad reminder of how people tend to forget their perspective when being in a large group. When a highly recommended and authoritative trainer shows up individuals suddenly loose their ability for sound judgement and neglect taking any actions. I have been threatened by persons with "money-power” already a few hours after this video was made public. This is why I sarcastically named it as close to the original promotion-video by Poul Fabricius Bjerre (which was hidden 1-5.3) without any personal comments, not to offend innocent people. My ambition is to cause minimum collateral damage. And at this stage I chose not to explain why I did not act immediately. I am relieved that the Equine Federation of Finland has reported Jørgen Olsen to FEI and to Dansk Rideførbund. I am very grateful to thousands of people showing their support and their eagerness to help out. Today, 18/2 2024, Jørgen Olsen still shows no remorse for bullying this horse, neither do his supporters of whom there are too many! My goal is to make him and alikes aware of more equine-friendly training metods. In my opinion Eurodressage was mislead for promotional gain. The unedited video is taken the last 3 of 43 minutes of the attempts of training this horse to do the piaffe. During the earlier minutes the horse had already received more than 1400 whippings by the stick, 2 stabbings in the ribcage with the handle of the stick (when the horse stood totally still not knowing what was asked of him), several harsh pullings directly in one siderein or pullings in the longe line, and by hand hitting the horse hard in his forehead. Accidentally (?) whiplashes also hit the face of the horse. By 20 minutes into the training the horse did not take any sugars or carrots so he had to be emotionally awakened by massaging the gum so that his limbic system would get new signals of relaxation. The horse seemed to have absolutely no clue of what he was asked to perform, pressure came from all directions (longe line, sidereins, whip, voice) at the same time and even not wanted behaviours (like kicking the wall) were suddenly rewarded. He could not force the horse to take any sugar or carrots by the end of the "training session" either. I saw nothing of the lightness you would expect after reading the Eurodressage-article. During the day I saw him train 10 horses of which two riders stayed in the saddle the entire lesson and their horses were saved from the groundwork or Olsen coming close up. This horse he exceptionally gave an overtime by 13 minutes.