Looking at his head, it must be Nuno, or the Pope... the previous one, of course
Maybe if the video was of better quality, we would love him, or hate him... here it's hard to judge if the reins are tight or not. The horse may be carrying his head like this naturally, maybe because of concentration it looks to short?
I tried to look at this video from different points of view. Firstly, from my recent exercise; I really like this idea of sideways in such "serpentines"... looks like more fun than doing it only straight (like Branderup). And he fluently changes from shoulder in to sidepass to haunches in... but I don't like, that the horse spends so much time bent to one side. Finally he does change, but it feels too long... my neck hurts me when I think of this
The best impression I had when looking at horse's legs. It seems, that Nuno concentrated mostly on them, too. It seems that the horse concentrated mostly on them, too... the steps are quite regular and the "pattern" is really complicated... I guess that he wanted the horse to read his cues, not repeat things from memory... so not "doing without thinking", but all the time listening to the rider...
I also looked at the other videos and it seems, that he does train in this way, something what Nevzorov does too. Permanent collection. They want collection to be "default" behaviour. And they both want high collection. Isn't it too much stress? I always have the same doubt. Some people would also say that it's fake, because horse should collect only to do something, not all the time. But we know what is the other opinion - they collect to carry the rider, which is enough as a reason...
Of course, the worst feeling I had when looking only at horse's head. It looks like having problems with breathing (but every horse wearing bit looks like this). I think, that he would have better result if he allowed the horse to raise his head, and to put his nose in front of vertical. I'm curious, how it would be like if he had no bridle at all. Would it be possible to do this exercise, in this pattern? With Avra I'm now using the cavesson, because it will be my bridle. I haven't tried without it. In NHE, I saw only pirouette, from similar things. This is interesting. Right now, I think that we will try this with Avra... and maybe it would be good as one of the first mounted exercises? As for Nuno Oliveira... I think that he does understand horses and collection, but he is just one of those who use force to get their result... although they know how to use it