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A alum of Pine Ridge Pony Club and a Colorado Native, Vicki Baker is an eventer who has becoming the absorption and account of eventing idols such as Capt. Mark Phillips and David and Karen O’Conner. Vicki has able abundant and endured the toughest of affairs – including a rotational abatement in 1999 that could accept concluded her benumbed career. Yet, Vicki has kept her arch top and has pushed on to become an internationally accustomed accident addition and coach. Sidelines bent up with Vicki and asked her a few questions about her eventing career. What do replica watches you accede your greatest strengths as a rider? My greatest backbone as a addition is my ambit in getting able to acclimatize to a array of horses. As a kid, I rode annihilation I could get my easily on which meant a lot of horses with arduous habits but I was aswell accustomed an amazing befalling by one of my aboriginal trainers, Nancy Chesney. She accustomed me to ride some of her top akin dressage horses. At first, it was on trails and a little jumping just for some cantankerous training and brainy absolution from their arduous workouts but anon I got the befalling to yield dressage acquaint on them. I abstruse so abundant about impulsion, collection, and cocky carriage. My adherent parents would cine my acquaint and I would abstraction them over and over again, generally in apathetic motion, reliving the animosity and seeing what I was feeling. It absolutely developed my feel and eye. I had the abundant affluence to attempt some amazing horses at all levels. I apprentice just as abundant if not added sometimes from the amateur horse accomplishing his aboriginal advance as I do from benumbed an avant-garde horse. I do adulation the acceleration at the top levels tough. Who would you accede your greatest mentor? That’s a boxy question. Throughout my benumbed career and campaign throughout the US, as a benedict at the Sydney Olympics and if I formed for the USET as the abettor administrator of Eventing, I’ve had the altered befalling to absorb a lot of time with a lot of amazing horseman and horsewomen. Some of the a lot of affecting in my activity accept been the O’Conner’s, George Morris, Jimmy Wofford, Capt. Mark Phillips, Jim Graham, Becky Holder, and Sally Ike. My career was congenital on the abilities they helped me advance both in benumbed and horsemanship and the afflatus and advice they gave me to the top levels of the sport. What do you adore a lot of about teaching eventing? I adulation the people. It’s a altered accumulation of army and horsewomen. To absolutely do this action appropriate you accept to be a able-bodied abreast rider. Detail aggressive for dressage, adventurous for XC and authentic for Appearance jumping. I’m captivated at the improvement of the acceptable 3-day architecture at the basic akin and now the even the training akin because that is breadth accurate horseman are made. You accept to apperceive how to affliction for and alternation your horse in a address that keeps them blessed and alive for dressage, fit and adventurous for XC and still physically complete and able for appearance jumping. The acceptable 3-day architecture absolutely teaches this and this is what I adulation to teach. Lately there has been a trend appear eventers accept 3 altered coaches, one for anniversary phase. While I begin this accessible as a top akin addition I anticipate this is amiss for the lower akin addition and does a disservice to the horse. I accept that an eventer needs a drillmaster that brings it all to the table – one that can chronicle your dressage abilities to your appearance jumping, that can advise you how to action whilst ancestry your dressage movements, or convenance your adaptability for SJ during your gallops sets. Instead, lower akin riders are advance too attenuate amid 3 trainers and aggravating to ride in 3 altered ways. Getting able to advice a horse and addition aggregate accompany it all calm is my backbone as a drillmaster and trainer. Can you acquaint me about getting a concrete therapist? How does it appulse your equestrian business? Becoming a Concrete therapist was consistently my “plan B” should I anytime accept to accord up my adulation of benumbed and I structured my undergraduate plan at CSU to ensure I could apparatus plan B if I bare to. I’ve consistently approached my benumbed and training biomechanically. I’m absorbed with movement and I am a “closet” veterinarian if it came to acumen issues. I adulation to feel tendons and blanket legs. As my concrete limitation larboard over from my abatement in 1999 got worse and worse in 2005 it became bright to me in that I bare accompany my plan B and it’s been an amazing journey. Not abandoned accept I been able to restore my own acumen through what I abstruse as a PT but it has opened up abounding opportunities to advice added riders and their horses accomplish acumen and advance their biomechanics and performance. I’ve aswell proudly been able to advice a few riders with alarming injuries abundant like what I had and I’m in the action of allowance one acclaimed horsewoman who suffered a above achievement acknowledgment to what she loves. I accept you are aswell heavily complex in accustomed horsemanship. How do you absorb that into your training? I would say that I was a accustomed horseman afore the appellation became popular. I’ve been about horses a lot of of my activity and I’ve consistently had a way of alive with them that curtains into their anima and I plan with them as associates of their assemblage not as a animal in their herd. I’ve imprinted a lot of foals and started a lot of horses and anniversary of them has accomplished me something. I’ll never overlook the aboriginal time I rode my adult Accomplished China down the centermost band of her aboriginal avant-garde horse trails. I had tears of joy active down my cheeks. To yield a filly that was built-in into my arms, that I abandoned trained, and to go an absolute eventing career afterwards one XC jumping fault, save for one accident with a few glance offs of corners was absolutely arresting and I feel it is my accustomed horsemanship, my adeptness to accretion a horse’s trust, that helped me accomplish this. I was abreast that you had a appealing bad abatement – I was in fact told it about dead you. If you don’t mind, could you acquaint me about that and how it as impacted your eventing career? Yes, I fell at the Radnor CCI** in 1999 on a adolescent prospect. It was a simple amble fence appropriate in foreground of the barter fair. I anticipate he got absent on yield off and we concluded up accepting a rotational abatement at a top amount of speed. My horse was accomplished luckily; I bankrupt his abatement well. I, on the added had did not book so able-bodied as you ability brainstorm in a abatement that bankrupt the timberline of my saddle with me in it. The affliction allotment of it for me was missing out on the adventitious to attempt at the next weekend’s Olympic condoning accident at Fair Hill. I was a amateur hopeful for the 2000 Sydney games. I was told by the Olympic selectors that if I could accomplish it to rolex replica the next bounce that I would still be considered. So with that borderline looming my adjust began. This was my aboriginal absolute acquaintance with Concrete Therapy and I put aggregate into it I could. Unable to affliction for myself I confused aback in with my association and they agilely took me to PT and to the basin so I could adjust a acutely confused hip and burst abdomen a allotment of added injuries. Looking aback now as a PT, there was absolutely no way I could accept been accessible to ride at replica watches uk even if all my adjust had gone able-bodied but I wasn’t about to accord up on my dream of traveling to the Olympics. In February, although my adjust was traveling well, I began to catechism whether I would be adventurous abundant to go XC afresh afterwards all this time off. I’d never had a abatement that I didn’t “get aback on the horse” appropriate abroad and absolutely never a abatement or injuries of this magnitude. So, adjoin doctor’s orders I snuck out to the barn, I wasn’t even declared to be active yet, and hobbled about on my crutches to tack up one of my mares. I just had to see if I could do it again. I was still so anemic but I affective aigrette and clucked and my adult arranged me about our XC course. Tears of joy for alive I still had my cajones were bound replaced by acute pain. I had baffled 5 months of rehab. So although I knew I could do it mentally, now I knew I could not do it physically. Sydney was out. But, I did concluded up traveling to Sydney as a benedict for Becky Holder(Douglas aback then). It was an amazing befalling and about as acceptable as I had beheld benumbed would be! What are your affairs for 2014? Well, I accept a admirable 5 year old daughter, Katherine, who loves horses so I’ll acceptable be arena horse appearance mom this summer. I will abide to advance Vicki Baker Eventing based at Gargot Farm’s in Berthoud, Colorado. I accept abundant affairs for abacus a XC ancestry breadth absorption on terrain, ditches and added to this already admirable farm. I aswell advise clinics locally and nationally. And, I will abide to plan allotment time as a concrete therapist at Concrete Therapy Doctors in Berthoud. I aswell plan to accumulate my hat in the antagonism ring on a admirable Connemara Stallion called Mosi and am actively gluttonous added mounts on which to compete. What would you accede your greatest accomplishment? I would accept to say that abiding to the avant-garde akin of antagonism to be a adversary for the 2004 Olympics afterwards such a alarming abatement is my better ability appropriately far. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t do it alone. I formed abundantly with a action analyst and was guided and accomplished aback by the USET developing benumbed affairs and accurately David O’Conner and Mark Phillips. What I abstruse from them was at the end of the day it’s your close backbone that you accept to draw from to accomplish it happen; so I did.