Thierry Rozier

Hi Josey,

First you need to adapt to your physique. Then try to be above your feet and to divide your weight equally on both feet. Try to follow your horse’s movements. The balance will come with practice!

Thierry

Hi Bess,

It’s pure dressage, you need to work on the horse’s self-carriage. I recommend basics dressage exercises like shoulder-in, quarters-in, haunches-out. The kind of exercise that need to be done on a regular basis. It also depends on the horse, for some of them it’s easier.

Thierry

Hello Lauren,

I always take a look at the horse’s breed and origins but it’s not the most important. The horse needs to have a good morphology and a good conformation of the legs. He needs to have a great physical potential for competition.

The mental also has a huge impact on my decision. I also really need to have a 'coup de foudre'.

Thierry

Hello Lily,

I am lucky to work with a mental trainer. It helps with stress management. Now I'm not nervous, when at the show I really want to confront the best riders and horses.

I wish I met my trainer earlier, it really helped me to gain more self confidence!

Thierry

Hello Maddy,

Even if we try to ride every course the same way, riding for the French team is always different and special.

When riding in a team you really want to jump clear for you but most of all for your teammates. When in individual if you miss a course it only affects you but in team competition your ride also for other people.

In the warm up of a Nation Cup it feels like every team is going to war, it's really amazing to live!

Thierry

Hello Elliot,

Between shows my horse mostly go outside to work. I am very lucky to be in the Fontainebleau forest so I can take my horses out.
They understand that when they are out it's more fun and relaxed and when they work in the arena they have to be more focused and at work.

Thierry

Hello Kim,

I decided to trained Abdelkebir after my father asked me to. Indeed Kebir is trained by him but he needed help to relieve him a bit.

But at the moment I am really focusing on the competition and I put coaching a bit aside.
I made the decision to go back at top level and it's working for now so my schedule is more focused on.
I don't want to cheat with my students and don't be a 100% with them. The experience I am gaining now, I could teach them in a few years.

Thierry

Hello Melinda,

I select big shows I want to compete in and then organize my season to be as ready as possible. I choose the show that will prepare me and my horse the best possible.
But in the end it always changes though the year, for exemple I didn't planned, at first, to go to the Rotterdam Nation's Cup but when Philippe Guerdat told me I was in, I had to change my schedule a little.

Thierry

Hello Hang,

I don't have a 'best advice' but what I like to do is to observe the other riders. You can learn a lot from watching them ride. For exemple I love to watch Marcus Enhing, Ludger Beerbaum or Kevin Staut.
I also learnt a lot from my father, Marcel Rozier and also from the many experiences I have lived.

Thierry

Hello Soline,

The Global Champions Tour choose the riders itself. The host can't choose the riders or the team competing.
The riders has to be in the top 15 ranking list and then the national trainer can invite 5 riders of the host country.
The FEI also has an invitation for the rider of its choice.

Thierry