Video: Developing Your Horse's Back: The Biomechanics of Engagement

[Anne_FS]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hokqRs9GbrI&feature=share

Interesting 20-minute video featuring (among others) Dr. Sue Dyson about engaging the core and raising the back.:

[i]"It’s not a new method, the classical masters years ago, before us, knew this, and we’ve lost that along the way.

Our eyes are being trained to seeing horses inverted and disconnected and it’s slowly infiltrating what everybody’s vision is of a correctly moving horse, so we need to counteract that and really point out the damages that we’re doing to horses by this incorrect riding."[/i]

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Dr. Dyson:
“I think that those riders and trainers are lacking in ability to recognize lameness, and to recognize behavioral signs that indicate an underlying pain-related problem, and that those people really need education to improve recognition of pain and behavioral changes related to pain.”

[RodeoFTW]

Watching this and it’s AWESOME.

[Palm_Beach]

It’s nice, although everything she says is the foundation of riding Western.

[Anne_FS]

It’s the foundation of riding. All riding.

Too many people just don’t bother to learn and understand. I think they are absolutely correct in saying that far too many people today, including trainers and judge, don’t even know what’s correct because they don’t see it.

[digihorse]

Same video from the Dressage side, and more of Will Faber’s advertising/infomercials. No thanks.

[RodeoFTW]

[QUOTE=Anne FS;8636264]
It’s the foundation of riding. All riding.

Too many people just don’t bother to learn and understand. I think they are absolutely correct in saying that far too many people today, including trainers and judge, don’t even know what’s correct because they don’t see it.[/QUOTE]

Thank you!

[Kwill]

Thanks for posting. I totally get it from a dressage standpoint, but i have a gaited horse now and as I understand it, they need to raise the core of the neck to gait properly, they don’t go long and low, so working on the core muscles seems more problematic than the methods mentioned in the video.