Paul and his wife, Tammy, live on the beach in Del Mar,
California, where part of the family digs is a self-sustained
television studio for interviews, production and editing taking
place every day. Their Show Jumping Unplugged media outreach
now spans the globe with its four episodes a week traveling the
air waves as far away as Dubai in the Middle East.
“We consider ourselves ‘collectors’. We are collecting spectators
for our sport, one fan at a time. It is great exposure for our sport,
and specifically, Grand Prix riders who really have no idea how
to market themselves. They are valuable athletes in our sport.
They deserve the recognition that other sports afford their top
athletes who carry the weight and responsibility every day,” says
Paul with a determined tone. “Tammy and I are dedicated to
bringing show jumping to the world. I shoot side by side with
ESPN, FOX, and all the other top networks with the goal to get
to that level of exposure too.”
Born into a family of attorneys, third generation Stanford
graduates, Paul turned down a full ride scholarship at Cal Poly,
San Luis Obispo because he is “not cut out for a suit; they
just don’t sit right with me personally.” Instead he graduated
from there with degrees in ‘other’ interests, a minor in Animal
Science and major in Broadcasting; neither following the family
traditions!
Cal Poly and Roger Hunt (his mentor at school) arranged
Internships which took him; first, to Tommy Lyons in Grandview,
Texas for a stint showing cutting horses all over the south. His
second Internship is probably the one most influential in his
“Tammy and I are dedicated to bringing
ultimate path of choice. He was the assistant facility manager
and what he calls the “go to guy” for Monty Roberts, at Flag is
show jumping to the world. I shoot side
Up Farm.
by side with ESPN, FOX, and all the
Finishing his degrees, he was offered his first real job with
Charlotte Bredahl (Denmark), at her facility in Solvang. Charlotte
other top networks with the goal to get
is a world competition level Dressage rider, and Paul’s job was to
break the young horses to get a good start on them. “It afforded
to that level of exposure too.”
me a whole different way of handling young horses. It let me
apply natural horsemanship to traditional dressage, and the two
55
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140 |
Page 141 |
Page 142 |
Page 143 |
Page 144 |
Page 145 |
Page 146 |
Page 147 |
Page 148