The Anky thread that has nothing to do with anything but has a whole lot to say about alot

[Kathy_Johnson]

>But In shoulder in, you are on three tracks.

You are on three rails, one track of two rails and an extra rail or track. This translates to two tracks. Think of it like laying a railroad (well, don’t go there). This is the only way I can ever understand anyone using the term two track, which generically seems to cover all lateral movements except leg yield.

A s-i on 4 tracks has a foot on every rail, 4 different ones. It takes a lot of collection or it degenerates into leg yield as, Dr. H. says.

Kathy Johnson Dressage

[Cowgirl]

AAAAAaaaaaaaa-CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

There now, it’s back at the top.

[Jen_West]

That’s all. Maybe she ISN’T pulling. Not worth arguing. She still needs to grow some guts and give her horse his head. That’s my opinion and it’s based on what the Old Dead Guys say, not on what some up and coming superstar is selling.

Steve Solomom writes (in a gardening book of all things) “The disappearance of old books would be okay if the new stuff were better and wiser, but usually the opposite is the case. I have observed this tendency in every area of scholarship I have taken up seriously. As the sort of person Sir Albert Howard calls ‘the laboratory hermit…someone who knows more and more about less and less’ increasingly comes to dominate ever-wider areas of scholarship, the focus of scholarship gets ever narrower and less wise.”

It is not that the flexion itself is evil, it is that it is a sign that the impul;sion generated is not matching the contraint taken by the rider. If a horse is overbent he is conclusively being ridden front to back. Period.

[judy]

Mona posted a link to a website that was discussing ‘deep’. It had what I thought were some good explanations. Check out her posts on the previous page of this thread to find it.

[suzy]

Cosmo, It’s this type of training that gives deep a bad name. Heck, it gives dressage a bad name.

CWP, I’ll happily go on that TV show if someone will front the money for the surgery. I’m either a plastic surgeon’s dream come true or worst nightmare depending on how big a challenge he/she likes.

[DocHF]

Velvet, come sit by me hon, a minute. ( ooof, I said by me, not on me)
Now there are those who simply love to watch the flopping and bouncing. Some love the actual process for anatomical reasons. We call them men. And others love to cut down their competition. We call them DQ’s. So please don’t deprive them.
Keep sitting and bouncing until the bounce becomes one with your horse, like Suzy.

[egontoast]

“Hands without legs and legs without hands” is the battle cry of the Baucherists, for Pete’s sake. Are we supposed to be impressed with this"

please don’t hate us because we are igno-baucherists

[Maria]

YES!!!

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

Kudos to Velvet for finally getting suzy for a spelling boo boo.

Maria doing a happy dance 'cuz goodness knows I have been caught waaaaayyyyyyy too many times by Ms. Suzy’s perrrrrfect grammar and spelling.

[Maria]

Speaking of moving up. Heavens are we just going to let this classic die? Is it now blase?

[Maria]

“I hope one day to ride as “poorly” as Anky…”

[Jen_West]

the horse should be paying attention to the rider. By the time a horse reaches ANY “Prix” level in dressage spooking in competition should be a non-issue. Classical training ensured that it was. The whole PURPOSE of having a horse between the hand and the leg is so that it will not shy. If the horses are shying they are not between the hand and the leg.

Also, nobody cares to comment on horses putting in TWO extra beats with their supposedly engaged hind ends?

The arguments being made in favor of the “new” style of riding “deep” are the EXACT same arguments made for riding AQHA pleasure horses with their noses on the ground. This is the new style, they use their backs better, they move “prettier”, Mr latida Big Silver Buckle knows more than you because what have you won? What was being done to pleasure horses ruined the “industry” for many, and it is only beginning to recover. What is being done in dressage is ruining it for many, and it will hit the industry hard soon. Watch.

Any time the modern “ideals” deviate from that which is classically correct you know they are doomed to fall by the wayside. Those that take the time and effort to train a horse correctly are rewarded by having a correctly trained horse.

[suzy]

You need to get a life and point that videocam in a different direction.

[egontoast]

off my regurgitating icon.I was talking with AvK over lunch and she’s not happy at all with the way this thread has turned out. Plus there was false advertising since it was not about boogers at all and she was peeved about that as well.

[rescuemom]

Now that you’ve boosted this thing to 20 pages, what do ya wanna talk about?

[Maria]

See what happens when you try to be nice and take the old and decrepit out on the town. She ends up embarrassing all of us.

Suzy, would you kindly adjust your Depends please?

That would be 5.

[DocHF]

Yes I believe this is already an established technique in the jumper world. It is practiced mostly by Canadian Ex-Olympic riders who just can’t seem to stop shoving cocaine up their noses. I doubt this explains your horse’s way of going unless of course he is sniffing the air looking for cocaine. You might then find him a good job working as an airport sniffer dog…err…horse.

However, the technique of “Going High” would have to be adapted to dressage, as cocaine is not a good drug for collected work. May I suggest a tub of Valium?

[PaulaM]

If anyone else in interested here are a couple more pics.

[suzy]

Thanks Cosmo. Does that give me permission to launch off on the neck topic?

[AWIP]

I think I smell the beginning of a new crusade …

[egontoast]

On YOU HUSKIES!!