Sunday, 20 July 2008
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Help Your Horse with Cribbing.. Rather than treating it, not knowing the cause, find out the cause to find true effective treatment for your horse. Read the latest research on the horse's hooves and find out the one place where the horse has proprioceptive nerves. What is so special about the back of the hoof?
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"The Art of Riding is none other than the
talent and the tact which are needed in applying our science to the
living horse. With them, the results will be easy, fluent, and elegant
and without them constrained, forced and mechanical....I want to devote a little space to what are, in my opinion, the real secrets of the Art." Wynmalen 
Different
schools present different ideas. This rider exercise examines which
joints are important to the functioning of a truly light hand and how
each joint must contribute if we are to give the illusion of truly
still hands.
A while ago, over a period of about three years, I underwent two major
surgical operations and also injured my knee badly - not riding-related
accidents, but the resulting loss of confidence around horses was the
same, notwithstanding over 40 years of riding and being with horses. I
was left with a strong sense of vulnerability and fragility which had a
definite effect on both my riding and my handling of horses, indeed my
confidence in just being around horses diminished considerably. 
The
philosophy of Classical Training teaches us that the beautiful High School
movements – piaffe, passage, half-pass, tempi changes - and even the Airs Above
Ground - levade, capriole, etc. - are not tricks that are trained and performed
in isolation, independent of other movements.
In a sense, they are not even separate movements. Teaching these
movements independent of the proper basic training is to teach tricks, and
therefore to train a horse without respect. In Classical
Training everything is taught step by step; one thing leads on to the next.
How we can use these two terms of
relative elevation and absolute elevation to help penetrate and
evaluate the difference between real and false collection. 
A snapshot as we look in at the world in regard to rollkur a year ago. It was a very
different place than where we are now. More different than perhaps you
realize. A time when people were afraid to talk about rollkur openly.
And even fewer publishers were willing to even mention the subject in
any article. They were literally afraid. 
Luis
Pine examines the gravity of balance, what it is, how it works and what
we can do improve so that with this kinetic language, the communication
is clear and intentional.
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