The Maestro has written another book

I can well see that

So here you go, Nick - this is the scoring sheet for Training Level Test 1. https://www.usdf.org/docs/showflash/web/tests/2019/USEF_TLT1.pdf

This shows you not just the movement required, but what the judge is looking for in that movement A 10 s a perfect score; a 1 is, you know, the opposite of a 10. Might see if you’re riding at this level yet. (If you can’t perform these movements to the satisfaction of the judges, you’re not.) On the back side are the Collective Marks - gaits, etc. plus two scores for rider effectiveness and rider position.

Best of all, these are available FREE on the USDF website! Just download the PDF and enjoy! :slight_smile:

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May we please see some 3rd-4th level tests? Thought I’d ask before attempting to navigate the website. :blush:

This is the 2019 one - is that the most recent?

https://www.usdf.org/docs/showflash/web/tests/2019/USEF_4LT1.pdfpdf

Here’s a link to the 2019 tests in PDF (Intro - 4th Levels): https://www.usdf.org/downloads/forms/2019.asp

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Thank you!

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Just to nit pick, 10 means excellent, not perfect.

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After all this time, where are all the pictures of book buyers who got their tee shirts? I would think the maestro would be bragging up a storm.

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That was just a good in-the-moment soundbite. You didn’t actually think he was going to PAY for the shirt of shipping it, did you?

Something I’ve always thought curious about Nick’s proclamations about his ability to train horses and give clinics is the complete lack of videos of him riding movements or a test at the level he says he can ride at. He posted one warm-up of Carpathia that didn’t so any Fourth level movements or frame.

Seriously (seriously), how many “FEI” - level trainers scrub the internet of any videos of them riding horses from training level to FEI? Riding client horses in training sessions? Riding their horses in training sessions or shows? And only post a few “select” still shots of them riding?

It Nick wanted to “prove” himself as an upper level trainer/rider and offered to give free clinics on someone else’s dime to prove himself, he would have videos showing he knows what he’s talking about. He’d keep up the videos of Chevy, the only horse he “trained to GP” and he’d have posted videos of him actually riding Carpathia at Fourth level and schooling FEI. To show he knows what he’s doing to his greater audience. He thinks Swamp Town “corrupted” the judges at his shows at Fourth level? Simply post a video of you riding a Fourth level test. What trainer WOULDN’T do that if a cabal of bathrobe-wearing women were trying to ruin you online? And what trainer DOESN’T have many videos of them working horses at various levels in order to attract clients? Or post their show scores in order to attract clients? Or state who they do clinics with regularly as a sign that he’s learning things. I mean, all GP level riders I know/knew worked with people regularly (Olympians or international level judges) to keep their skills up and have expert eyes on the ground.

Nick seems to think people will PAY for him just based on his word. With no proof he can actually do anything he says he can do. He failed with Carpathia and failed with Chevy. Sorry Nick, the only teens I know who competently ride at FEI went successfully through the YR program on bonafide FEI level horses. They don’t just read books. Thus, the guy NEEDS some proof that he can give a lesson above training level and move a horse out of training level.

I mean seriously, does anyone here know of any actual FEI or GP level trainer who thinks they’re beyond doing clinics? Or is so afraid to post videos of them riding or showing at the level they claim to train at?

So Nick, this is why no dressage rider above beginner in the discipline will ride with you or invite you to give a clinic. You’ve never shown you can ride or train competently at any level. I can say I’ve trained my horse to I2 and go show in a few weeks with scores in the 40s. Should I blame YOU for contacting the judges to ruin my ride and claim that the cabal is working against me? Hmmmm, is it more likely that a cabal is trashing my scores… or that my horse and I can’t ride an I2 test. Hmmmmm. Can you see what I’m saying?

OK, I’m done. I have to contact @Unfforgettable about ski lessons.

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Nick: You posted a very short clip of you riding a 3rd or 4th level test that you had someone video for you. Why won’t you show the entire test?

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Really? I must have missed that. Do you have a link to him riding a 3rd or 4th level test? Not the warm-up but an actual test? I haven’t seen that and may revise what I said after watching it.

Thanks!

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It’s on Facebook. Starts at 2:12 of the video. That’s all there is. The ride would be the 3rd level test. Heidi Berry was the judge. He said he videoed this test to prove the scores Ulf Wadeborn gave him were wrong. I would bet there is more to that video that he didn’t want us to see.

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Oh yes, this is the video I was thinking of.

The warm-up shows no warm-up at Fourth level. The snippets of the test are useless. I suspect he did that on purpose because he earned the low scores he earned.

Nick, actual trainers show their full tests for the world to see. Because they have nothing to hide. You apparently do.

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It doesn’t really matter if you have the wrong year, you just cross it out in pen and write the year that you’re doing it - didn’t you know? That’s what NP did and published a photo of it (which he now must have deleted because it was everywhere). I’m pretty sure that was the “test” he did with the military person holding the flag in the middle (but am happy to be corrected). When you break it down, and it’s so easy to break it down because he documents EVERYTHING, it’s quite sad.

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Paws & Rewind still have photos of a 3rd Level test Nick / Carpathia:

Some of them have been done on rapid wind (if that’s the term, photography is not in my bag of talents) so if you flick through some of them really fast you get the illusion of movement LOL.

ETA
This is the fourth level test:

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If your bandwidth is limited, if nothing else take a look at photo 12 of the 4th level test which is the halt.

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I really hate to be this way, but :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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You can see in some of those photos that Carpathia developed that muscling behind the 3rd vertebrae that tells everyone she’s habitually ridden from front to back.

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Remember way, way back when he first appeared and was very proud of his “piaffe” video of Chevy, where he was dry humping the poor horse but thought he was riding FEI? Then the internet started telling him how bad it was and that it was not piaffe and was incredibly poor riding. Next, that video disappears, and he claims he was just a kid then, teaching himself. Poof! Pride gone, now making excuses for what he didn’t (and still doesn’t) know.
That pretty much explains why no other videos are allowed to remain…because he knows he has never been at the level he claims and videos are proof of that. Which also answers why he never took any lessons as an adult. Phonies and frauds will do anything to avoid exposure.

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He posted a comment under a post shared by Dressage Hub saying that this is an issue he discusses in his book.

That post? An article about a trainer who asked a potential sponsor to purchase a horse for her, and who was then told she would be expected to sleep with said potential sponsor once they were on the road together.

Ummm, no, pretty sure that wasn’t covered in NP’s book…

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If that was in his book, I have forgotten about it too.

Maybe he has added it to his book since the version we read?

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Yeah, no. I can’t envision any “sponsor” being desperate enough to ask Maestro to ride either her horse or herself.

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