Biography, Lammert
Haanstra
After having taught as an instructor at the
Koninklijke Nederlandse Hippische Federatie (Royal
Dutch Board for Equine Education) from the early seventees on, he
was called by the Friesch Paarden Centrum in 1991 to take over the
training management at Friesch Paarden Centrum in
Drachten:
Supervising instructional riding courses in day and
evening time, testing
Friesian mares in ABFP (ability testing), 70-day testing Friesian
stallion candidates, organizing clinics in dressage, riding, driving
and jumping etc. So it will not surprise you that Lammert
is having a special affinity for Friesian horses, having been
responsible for training and testing of stallion candidates for such
a long time.
For many years
already Lammert
and his collegues at KNF had been responsible for testing warmblood
stallions before they were allowed to enter stud duties.
The
Dutch Board put to Lammert the task to introduce voltige riding in
the Netherlands. So he was sent toGermany to enter special
voltige courses in which there was a lot of emphasis
on lounging. After having successfully passed the tests in voltige
riding he discovered the enormous potention in lounging horses.
Many famous warmblood stallion would have been lost
for stud duties if it would not have been Lammert lounging them
first in various critical phases of their
testing.
In the late nineties Lammert and The Friesch Paarden
Centrum grew apart and Lammert was asked more and more to teach
lounging as even Olympic rider Tineke Bartels and
top jumping rider Franke Sloothaak were using lounging
techniques to help their horses to enter toplevel
competition.
Lammert is being assisted by his wife who takes
care of all his paperwork, allowing them to write books on
training horses and riders. His very well known book on lounging is now
followed by a book on training of horse and humand rider as well.
His work takes him all over the
Netherlands,
Belgium,
Germany
and even to
Switzerland. His clinics on riding, driving and mostly lounging
attract groups of 12 enthusiasts to crowds of 400 looking at video
screens and in the arena simultaneously.
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