Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design

A training series with top Eventer, David Doel. This bite-sized training series takes 4 amateur riders through their paces from warm up to jumping a course on horses of differing ages and abilities.

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design

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Season 1

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: XC position

5* eventer David Doel puts riders Cameron Beer and Tina Wallace through the 5 different XC positions on and off the horse. (S1, Ep 1/11)

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: XC Warm up

5* eventer David Doel teaches riders Cameron Beer and Tina Wallace about the importance of a Cross-Country warm up. Both horses are on grass for the first time this season so David shares his tips for working in a fresh horse. (S1, Ep 2/11)

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: Rail Ditch Rail

5* eventer David Doel teaches riders Cameron Beer and Tina Wallace how to start over a ditch building up to jumping a rail ditch rail safely. (S1, Ep 3/11)

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: Tricky Trakehners

5* eventer David Doel teaches riders Cameron Beer and Tina Wallace how to ride those famous rider frighteners trakehners ! (S1, Ep 4/11)

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: Water Fences Part 1

5* eventer David Doel teaches riders Cameron Beer and Tina Wallace how to ride through water - building up to jumping up and down drops into and out of the water, before putting together a combination of fences. (S1, Ep 5/11)

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: Corners

5* eventer David Doel teaches riders Cameron Beer and Tina Wallace how to ride corners - in particular ones of a difficult turn or line. (S1, Ep 6/11)

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: How to ride out the Start Box

5* eventer David Doel teaches riders Izzy Hatch and Tianna Patterson how to ride out of a start box. With one more laid back horse and one more enthusiastic David has the best advice to kick off any XC round. (S1, Ep 7/11)

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: Riding an Owl Hole

5* eventer David Doel teaches riders Izzy Hatch and Tianna Patterson how to ride the owl hole. Always a popular photo fence, David shares his advice on how to make sure you ride it perfectly for your pic. (S1, Ep 8/11)

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: Riding Drops

5* eventer David Doel teaches riders Izzy Hatch and Tianna Patterson how to go up and down drops and then tie in different lines of fences. (S1, Ep 9/11)

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: Skinny ditch Skinny

5* eventer David Doel teaches riders Izzy Hatch and Tianna Patterson how to start over a ditch building up to jumping a skinny ditch skinny safely. (S1, Ep 10/11)

Back to Basics: Eventing with Voltaire Design: Water Fences part 2

5* eventer David Doel teaches riders Izzy Hatch and Tianna Patterson how to ride through water - building up to jumping up and down drops into and out of the water, before putting together a combination of fences. (S1, Ep 11/11)

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