you can be pretty much anything you like on the internet
Oh gosh no, Sendenhorse. At the time I was taking 2 lessons a week and riding all the time. It was easy to teach the lower levels such as training and first. It was word of mouth, not advertisement. Now days , it’s not the same. I can not teach when I am not taking lessons or competing. So no, I’m not a professional.
Do you teach? You seem to know so much.
Mes chères, methinks we are having a case of COTHERS Alzheimer’s in this thread. :rolleyes:
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PFB randomly started discussing contact again, so I went with it. it was at last some answers.[/QUOTE]
PFB didn’t randomly change the subject. It was no one specifically.
I really do think that people each have their own perceptions and they are all different. Some people may feel that a post by someone is perfectly fine. Some think it’s perfectly fine post and disagree. Some may find the poster less knowledgeable due to their own interpretation of someone’s content. Not every person’s reply is with good intent.
So I personally tell it like it is for me, try to help others with what I’ve experienced , and ask questions when I need clarification on something I know or don’t.
I do find Sendenhorse a good rider with good knowledge and good at descriptions. I think (IMO) we got off on mis interpretations of eachother and hopefully now our interpretations are much more correct. She is definitely someone to learn from, as are most of you.
I am personally turned off by negative replies to others like “you are wrong” , or taken out of context or not with good intent. I don’t think everything can be explained on a message board. It gets interpreted in many ways.
I must have taken professional lessons for 10 years sometimes twice a week on varying horses and my own. I’ve had 2 horses that had been trained for dressage. One could do 2nd level at home, but arthritis ended his competition.
Now I have my current horse. Always ridden with the principles of the training scale, feel, and correct position and aids. A few lessons here and there to keep things from getting sloppy. My current horse was never purchased for dressage just pleasure due to my medical changes. But I always missed something in riding, something more than just riding. Due to my horse and I, we seem to get things right with more classical methods. It does not remove the training scale.
I only talk from experience. I don’t pretend I know something, and have no reason to. In 30 years of reading and watching dressage, riding, listening to more knowledgeable people’s interpretation of a particular competitor, and their own riding, clinics, and my 10 years of active showing, my education still grows. But I don’t give advice in anything over 2nd level because I do not have any hands on experience in third level and up.
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Mes chères, methinks we are having a case of COTHERS Alzheimer’s in this thread. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Could be. I’m 56, which carries it’s own lessening of memory. And meds I’ve taken for 18 years have turned by brain to mush. I can’t concentrate, can’t remember short term, can’t find the words to describe what I mean , poor comprehension of what people say because I can’t concentrate, major anxiety about stupid stuff. It’s not a COTH only alzhiemers thing.
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PFB randomly started discussing contact again, so I went with it. it was at last some answers.[/QUOTE]
I think it went off topic at post #20, a few more , then petered out. Then #32 a few more and #44 and kept on going. I was part of this but not all of this and didn’t start it. It just evolved.
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I do find Sendenhorse a good rider with good knowledge and good at descriptions. I think (IMO) we got off on mis interpretations of eachother and hopefully now our interpretations are much more correct. She is definitely someone to learn from, as are most of you…[/QUOTE]
you don’t know if I am a good rider IRL, but thanks for the complement
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Could be. I’m 56, which carries it’s own lessening of memory. And meds I’ve taken for 18 years have turned by brain to mush. I can’t concentrate, can’t remember short term, can’t find the words to describe what I mean , poor comprehension of what people say because I can’t concentrate, major anxiety about stupid stuff. It’s not a COTH only alzhiemers thing.[/QUOTE]
thank you for sharing this, it sounds really challenging.
I’m a very liner thinker (scientist) so this is where I think we diverge. I knew there had to be something why we had this disconnect. sometimes it’s a language issue, and other posters Kade50 has aspergers.
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Could be. I’m 56, which carries it’s own lessening of memory. And meds I’ve taken for 18 years have turned by brain to mush. I can’t concentrate, can’t remember short term, can’t find the words to describe what I mean , poor comprehension of what people say because I can’t concentrate, major anxiety about stupid stuff. It’s not a COTH only alzhiemers thing.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=SendenHorse;8565679]thank you for sharing this, it sounds really challenging.
I’m a very liner thinker (scientist) so this is where I think we diverge. I knew there had to be something why we had this disconnect. sometimes it’s a language issue, and other posters Kade50 has aspergers.[/QUOTE]
Yes, along with Senden, thanks for sharing this. Sorry about the Alzh quip!! Many on here have the language disconnect, with some is a focus or memory issue. And it does sound really challenging! All the best to you PFB 
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you don’t know if I am a good rider IRL, but thanks for the complement[/QUOTE]
Sendenhorse quote:
A horse that is going towards self carriage to me, feels like that moment JUST BEFORE they come too far above the bit. They feel like they are walking a balance beam. It almost has a “still” quality to me, where things are very deliberate and there is a lot of though before the horse lifts. A “waiting”, not a fling and go quality with too much wiggle. There is power, but it’s "useful power (Sendenhorse)
You can’t know this from a book.
I don’t care who went off topic, we are all guilty, LOL!
Language disconnect is an issue too, LOL
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I’m getting tired of the negativity on this board in so many spheres.[/QUOTE]
That’s funny. I’ve been on this board for a long time and read the dressage forum for most of that time, even though I didn’t start trying to ride dressage until 5 or so years ago.
I haven’t been around much lately and posted on the “contact” thread. I thought many of the posts were very informational and helpful. And thought things were pretty civil compared to what they used to be. :lol:
Someone mentioned Ambrey … whoooooeee!!! Now there’s a blast from the past.
I thought this thread was about other discussion forums that didn’t have a few posters getting into pissing matches about who was the better armchair rider and dominating an entire thread in an attempt to out smartass the other poster.
I really hated that on the UDBB and was eventually chased away as my ameature riding skills and remedial horses were entirely unwelcome. I think some people spent more time talking about the right way to ride dressage and not actually riding dressage and they were so busy in their pursuit of perfection (but not actually riding) that they scared away real life people who actually rode.
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I thought this thread was about other discussion forums that didn’t have a few posters getting into pissing matches about who was the better armchair rider and dominating an entire thread in an attempt to out smartass the other poster.
I really hated that on the UDBB and was eventually chased away as my ameature riding skills and remedial horses were entirely unwelcome. I think some people spent more time talking about the right way to ride dressage and not actually riding dressage and they were so busy in their pursuit of perfection (but not actually riding) that they scared away real life people who actually rode.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, this ^^^
UBDD went downhill, fast, and it was sad. Very negative and moderation was too lax.
COTH to me has always been a “real riders” forum.
I loved the UDBB but it gradually declined. Back in the glory days (2003-2006 or so), it was an incredible resource with a wealth of extremely knowledgeable posters. It was still good up until about 2012 or 13 but then there were a few people that started corrupting a lot of the threads in the training forum. Then there were a lot of really crazy things happening under the covers (by some of those posters) that eventually caused the owner to want to throw in the towel. It’s a shame and I miss the way it used to be.
yeah, I still refer to the advice from Pammy and SelfCarriage~ really bummed when they stopped participating. I wish that sort of thing could have carried on. It was a super resource, but like anything, burn people doing something for free and they stop.
