And everybody’s favourite 
:dizzy:…The Hag of the Hub
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Thanks for all the memories pepperoni!!! We can’t deny that he has been the best tea here for a long time 
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Another service COTH has fine the world, keep him in the limelight but off a horse!
Now stop making me laugh, this Covid cough can’t cope.
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Ah, Nick: No friend of yours will host a clinic for you and you won’t host your own clinic because you know you would make more of a fool of yourself.
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Is that actually possible? Could he look more foolish than he already does?
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He would not be able to stand the laughing to his face.
I would definitely audit it.
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So would I. I’d travel some if necessary.
Who is Amanda Anderson-Jamison? She responded to Nick’s comment claiming to have been in the COTH spotlight at one point.
Possibly this one?
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I imagine that’s the one.
Same person now runs saddlefitting.us. Some really wild and far reaching conclusions on their FB. I’m thinking the chair seat thread in dressage was inspired by a post on their FB page.
According to their FB page, knee blocks are designed so the rider has leverage for rollkur.
This is totally out of context of her posts. Not fair to post that and not all the other stories and information along with it.
She probably just doesn’t know about Nick I would hope anyways.
What is hard to watch is the emphasis on a front end frame. I have an ex racer, due to injuries ended up not jumping him, and learning dressage. I had way too much initial " training" like this. A lot of racehorses need to start out of the ring, on hills, trails, getting their hind end conditioned, developing natural balance. I did not know enough about dressage when I started the journey with my ex racer. Now that I do and am starting over, we have taken almost 2 years before asking for any kind rounding and the rounding starts with the core, not the head. This kind of riding will just exacerbate any kissing spine or create it. It’s clear in the video the issue with this horse is the lack of hind end strength, no flow through the back.
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What makes me hesitant about that video (there’s a lot, to be sure) is that at no time is that horse tracking up. I’ve ridden ex racers and trained an ex racer who left the track, had a baby, and then I got her. I rode her in the ring almost always but rode her forward. I also evented her. We had no hills.
Ex racers have learned how to race, pull on the reins and flatten. But, IME, they have learned to learn at a young age and can learn to move differently OK if they are sound and you can be patient to train them through bad habits (ears being pulled to get them in the gate which makes bridling freakin’ hard! understanding legs giving aids, rebalancing, etc.). They have learned how to learn early on. Now you’re teaching them something else and they can learn that, too.
An OTTB can learn to go round and it will likely feel better for that horse in much less than 2 years, IME. You don’t force them, you teach them. Each horse’s brain power is different.
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Posting hands. I learned not to do that when I was a raw beginner at age 8.
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How is it out of context when someone asked what the point of thigh block were and her response was literally “leverage for rollkur?” Even if she was being sarcastic (which I’m not sure she is) it doesn’t inspire confidence in her knowledge as a saddler
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Agree that it isn’t out of context at all, the screen shot is word for word and the post is about the detriment of thigh blocks. Not sure if Jealoushe actually reads that FB page but it’s full of far reaching ideas, and I also believe they think thigh blocks are for rollkur.
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Usually she posts a lot of background information on the post she shared and so I can’t see the actual post and example that she made that comment on. That’s all I meant by it.
I follow her on Instagram and a lot of what she posts is really interesting. You do see people using blocks to hold them in and in turn wrecks their position.
