Article on Juan Manuel Munoz Diaz 
Interesting article about Juan Manuel Munoz Diaz Eurodressage.com published and written by Katharina Braren.
Katharina Braren born in Hamburg in 1965, is the soul of Topiberian.com, this site in very short time has become the best news portal language Dressage English.
I have asked from this page, you write about Juan Manuel Munoz Diaz, the rider Pure English Horse, FIRE XII. The first thing that comes to mind when talking about Juan Manuel is the image of "Tio Pepe", yes, that image that runs throughout Andalusia and where you see the black silhouette of a rider dress cut short, flanking toasted the landscape from the olive groves and vineyards of southern Spain. Juan Manuel is, when I stop and think of it, a bit like the silent image, not many words, quiet, friend of the sun and joy typical of Andalusia. He is the son of his land Ecijano, a town between Cordoba and Seville, and as such has a very southern understand life, to relate, because life is for living, to taste it without hurry, calmly, with an eye also on the field and at harvest.
"I could not ask my father to buy me a horse to Grand Prix because, although he might have done in the field these things are not done. Nobody knows what will happen next season or the other, and, moreover, is that we were 5 brothers. "This said Juan Manuel fifteen years ago when he dreamed of competing in dressage, for example, Dr. Reiner Klimke. It was clear that the Grand Prix horse had to find it and put it himself, because nobody was going to do for him, something almost impossible also because horses at that level for fifteen years in Spain almost had not.
The English rider Juan Manuel Munoz Diaz, with the Pure English "Fuego XII, owned by the Cardenas Stud, in Kentucky World Equestrian Games 2010, has raised the public of their seats, has been that even through an exercise, the fans applauded with both hands, has managed to excite the American public with brief but unforgettable moment, as happens in Opera, are reserved to a few and they are to remember. Theirs has been a success that has spread to all livestock and Iberian horse enthusiast, has made the dream of seeing a thoroughbred horse expressed at the highest levels in rectangular possible. The impact this will have on the breeding and potential of the PRE in the sport will be, I dare to venture, large to medium term.
But who is Juan Manuel Munoz Diaz?. Juan Manuel is currently 40 years and has been since a bit before "Fuego XII" appeared in his life the rider of the stud Cárdenas, one of the more traditional studs of Spain, owned by Miguel Angel de Cárdenas. It was he who first spotted the fire still a colt and persuaded the farmer to her attention that year in the SICAB.
Juan Muñoz was born into a traditional family horse, close-knit family Ecijano, where his father, friend, cousin, uncle and nephew of many farmers in the area, he climbed on the backs of many horses when not walking yet. Spain is a country with a great culture of the horse that traditionally has not yet had nothing to do with what is today's world of sport horse. Is the world of bullfighting, high school, Doma Vaquera, tradition, emotion, speech, religion. In Spain the horse has been useful companion, inseparable in everyday life Andalusian until just over thirty years.
So, John is one of the exponents of what could be the first generation of dedicated professional riders Riding to the sport in the discipline of Dressage formed in Spain. Along with most other riders of this generation, Nuria Vila, Lucas and Augustí Elias, Joaquin Legarre, Diana Ostariz, Bern Pujals, etc., Juan Manuel went through the same Llavaneras school in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe school rider Luis Lucio, to form.
Juanma Juan Muñoz or as we call it enters very young friends on the block of Luis Lucio, also Olympic rider at the beginning of this discipline in Spain, and visionary for his clear commitment to the native horse in the commitment to PRE in the racing world. For the riders who passed through his house, not taught only riding, but also discipline, routine, almost Germanic, and all that were needed to carry an equestrian center and teach your horses and humans once dressage. Juan Manuel Muñoz was going to happen like 5 years in Barcelona, \u200b\u200baway from Ecija.
Juan Muñoz is the prototype of a temperamental rider who has had to learn how to remove their emotions within the arena of competition, focus, become a source of calm and absolute seriousness. We have seen, in those tests in Kentucky who rode fantastic, contain your excitement until the last second, where an audience excited and throws his hat explodes into the air, carried away and shows their joy and gratitude to all. This is Juan Manuel, so the rider and horse riding as well.
"None of this would be possible without" Fuego XII ", which is a special horse, nor without the work of Jan Bemelmans, the coach who knew how to bet, and a farmer, Miguel Angel Cardenas had no other objective his horse were to succeed at international level and provided absolutely all necessary means, "said Juan Manuel at the exit of the Kur WEG in Kentucky to the American press that interviewed him. To Juanma "Fuego XII" was the moment the project of his life and culminated in Kentucky was his bet staff to bring this horse up. Those who know we ride effort, the daily work that chance at this level has little to do, because being the current world number 11 ranking for a horse and rider can not be improvised. "At the end of rapport with your horse is like a marriage, especially in these horses that are so fine, so kind, so sensitive, because a Purebred not ask things twice, and this is not always easy to understand ".
"I'm still in disbelief at the success I've had in Kentucky. "Fire" and I have been together over nine years, since he came into my hands with 4 years I have spent many hours my life on that horse. When I mounted the first time I knew I had not ridden a horse like that before. But I could never imagine what would. "
" For me it's an honor to have excelled with a Pure English is not easy for our race will be accepted at this point has cost us. There was a first wave of riders came out internationally. I think now we are back there, I've been since 2007 as part of the national team and we stayed there thanks to a job with discipline, a gym and a highly structured program they need our horses more than anyone. "Juan Manuel
is friendly, honest, always there, with his horse. It is a rider who has dedicated his time and all his personal efforts to care personally, without looking, no other wizard himself to care for Fuego XII. And if you ever asked why not let the waiter strolled the horse or take him branch out to pasture, Juan Manuel said he could not, that "Fuego XII" did not understand why he did so and who do did then I would take a few days to get back to empathize with him. And indeed Fuego "XII" has a good character, but strong, typical of horses with class and will. Hiking, care, feeding, mating, recovery, ... Juan Manuel has lived and for this horse, and now it's this great reward in the World Equestrian Games. A just and deserved reward for all their work.
But Juan Manuel is also a good occasion to reflect on the conditions that must be a professional rider. It's like we say passionate, instinctive, emotional, even a somewhat distant image of the disciplined and self-controlled nature of the countries of the north. "What happens is that dressage requires accuracy, precision, the exact moment the precise moment, and this is something I learned from Jan Bemelmans, someone who is not exactly the north, but in Belgium, a country where cultures and even languages \u200b\u200bhave to come together. " "I had a lot to learn, technically and mentally, but I have to say that I have not always been difficult, in the end everything in life seems, you have to enjoy what you do, in fact you have to try that what you do life is to do you enjoy most, so everything is easier, and I have been fortunate to have this extraordinary horse, which speak only fata him, and there are no words to express my gratitude. "
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Muñoz is now a rider of a horse, Andalusian, from his heart, and can only speak with a wink. KATHARINA
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