Friday, 30 July 2010
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August 2008 • VOLUME 36 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
Cordeo
Pesada ELEMENTS The entire education of a horse in the School way is specifically based (and has always been based) on the very difficult elements. Difficult elements have a secret as well. The secret is contained in the fact that they are not difficult at all – these are natural horse movements during moments of ardour, rage or fear. The School practice of work in hand and at liberty begins its teaching of so-called difficult elements almost at the very beginning of the education of a horse. Pesadas, Spanish walk, passages, centavo, centado, balancer, etc. fulfill a very important task – they all teach a horse voluntary concentration. Teaching the elements of the School has one more secret: some sort of common business appears between a horse and human, it is a laborious task that takes a lot of time to solve, which has a “prologue, development, climax” form. This process has many elements, all of which must be developed. This process is reminiscent of a series of novels and thus manege discipline is automatically generated. Regardless of the fact that most of the pictures that illustrate this part of “Tractate on School seat” are taken in a park, you should not conclude that teaching should be accomplished OUTSIDE OF A MANEGE, by the way. Actually, the entire process of education and training of a horse must occur in a manege, where there is ideal flatness and correct footing, where there are no flies, where the light is correct and nothing that distracts a horse. The word “Manege”, by the way is a pure School word and literally means – “the place for the work… in hand” (it comes from Latin manus – hand). 2. CORDEO. The School only allows for one auxiliary piece of equipment and that is the CORDEO – a belt or rope tightly sewn into a ring. I have said a lot about it in the film “Nevzorov Haute Ecole Principles”. In particular, that it must only be used in the area of sixth-seventh neck vertebra, above the prescapularis part of the deep chest muscle or, so to clarify it even further – in the area of the middle part of serratus ventralis muscle of the neck. At the same time we have to remember that the CORDEO is not and cannot be a means of controlling or restraining a horse.  It is absolutely useless as a pain-inflicting factor in an extreme situation because it can’t be a pain inflicting or restraining factor at any time. If the CORDEO rises higher than the fourth vertebra, it destroys collection and deprives the work with a horse of absolutely any meaning. Fortunately, a rise to even the second neck vertebra will not produce any impression on a horse at all. The rings of the trachea are a powerful enough structure by themselves, and even at that location the rings are protected from any external trauma by sternohyoid, omohyoid muscles and m. longus capitis. Now that self-made imitators of the School have appeared, in the photo we can notice the typically primitive and ridiculous way the cordeo is being used. There are no relations with a horse here. A human is trying to turn the cordeo into a means of control, affecting the rings of the trachea, without knowledge that in this position they are absolutely invulnerable and that the “lassoing” of a horse is based on a completely different principle, which is inapplicable in any situation with a cordeo.
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