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NOVEMBER 2006 • VOLUME 15 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine
All quotes by Dr. Alison Harman
“ I have just re-read the articles by Uwe Spenlen and there seems to me to be a side to rollkur that no-one is talking about.”
[Editors Note: The two articles by Uwe Spenlen can be found in our October Issue of Horses For LIFE] http://horsesforlife.com/SpenlenInterviewWEGames/
“When I first saw this going on and it was discussed a lot, it seemed as if most people thought it was done for a few seconds at a time, however no-one really offered an explanation for why it was done. Then the video clips appeared and it was clear that horses were ridden like that for long periods of time and, furthermore, the extreme over bending was even more extreme than realized. However, there was still no real explanation of why it was done.”
[Editors Note: Check out June Special Double Issue on Rollkur for videos pictures and articles.]
“Then many websites appeared devoted to explaining how bad it was and how it is not in the German Training Scale, no-one seemed to be mentioning that it was actually not necessary to do it to train a horse or what it was done for. Now the debate continues and there has been in depth analysis of the legs of the horse, rhythm etc of rollkured horses and apparently a side effect of it is to produce higher stepping in front and this seems to be a reason for doing it, maybe, since no-one is explaining why they do it.”
“However, Sjef Janssen does explain his training methods quite clearly in a video made by him and Anky doing a seminar in the UK. They do what they do because to win at Grand Prix level.”
They do what they do because to win at Grand Prix level they are playing to what they see the crowds and the judges are rewarding.
The judges say they want brilliance, what they think they see is this brilliance, but what they are getting is tension. Tension deliberately introduced and maintained in these horses through the training methods used.
Thus Sjef Janssen explains that to win -
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