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80% Kissing Spine
An incredible statistic of post mortem examinations of one study on horses. Can we begin to understand the cause and effect? Can understanding lead to healthier, better training practices. Is the way we are riding making it worse?
We regularly see lifting the lumbar back given as one of the reasons that rollkur, long and low and deep and overbent is a good thing. Perhaps we should stop a moment and examine the first perspective that lifting the lumbar back is good?
Rather
than expecting riders to ride to the rulebook, the FEI systematically
is changing the rulebook to fit the riders. What is wrong with this
picture?
The riders start too high up on the horse’s learning ladder. As a result, when they hit a barrier, a wall, they don’t have a deep enough insight into the nature of the horse and without that knowledge the barrier doesn’t come down easily.
An incredible statistic of post mortem examinations of one study on horses. Can we begin to understand the cause and effect? Can understanding lead to healthier, better training practices. Is the way we are riding making it worse?
We regularly see lifting the lumbar back given as one of the reasons that rollkur, long and low and deep and overbent is a good thing. Perhaps we should stop a moment and examine the first perspective that lifting the lumbar back is good?
Rather
than expecting riders to ride to the rulebook, the FEI systematically
is changing the rulebook to fit the riders. What is wrong with this
picture?
The riders start too high up on the horse’s learning ladder. As a result, when they hit a barrier, a wall, they don’t have a deep enough insight into the nature of the horse and without that knowledge the barrier doesn’t come down easily.
A former director of the Spanish Riding School on the seat and the one single thing that will make the biggest difference!
Different training methods give us different training accesses. What are the differences and can you tell?
Are they already perfect? Would it be suicidal to critique the SRS?