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Tsavo

Xan, that was Bip's quote, not mine though I agree.

Tsavo

Just to round this off, eventually Loony Tunes Seller asked me if I would lease the horses off her, break them for her, then return them so she could use them in her Christian Missionary. I kid you not. :shock: Since then I have been looking for a jumper and discovering that I am gonna be out $35k ...

Tsavo

Thanks Rye and SF. SF, wow did your life flash before your eyes with that kick?? What a scare. I can say my life flashed when I thought my horse was is serious trouble. I hope everything stays fine. SF, can I ask you about Tesla? So she was 16.2 HH at two if I recall correctly. How big do you think ...

Tsavo

Friday he was in due to heat plus I wasn't able to work him. Saturday he has a significant limp again. I think we have entered a state of perpetual rehab where unless everything aligns with turnout and working he is not going to be sound. It's a zero tolerance policy it seems. I am close to calling ...

Tsavo

Yes I would love a Canadian but they are not a dime a dozen. They must be in eastern Canada because I don't recall seeing one in three years in Calgary.

Tsavo

What a nice mare! Beautiful and brave. Congratulations.

Tsavo

My horse has come sound and I will ride him through the winter if he stays sound but I will retire him by next March when he is 22. I will find him small herd so he can move around and stay as comfortable as possible. The high ringbone on the LF is now visible and is growing quickly. I wonder if tha...

Tsavo

Oh now RB I mainly do in hand before each ride and that must be purely diagonal, on the bit, dead straight, f/d/o, and he has to do it with me on one side then the other. That is part of my in hand work prior to each ride and I am very particular about the in hand work. In the counted walk, it stays...

Tsavo

Khall no I am not trying to diagonalize. As Ammy Ilk (tm), I think the risk of ruining the walk would be too great. My horse will do half steps so I don't need to go to collected walk to work towards piaffe which I will not be doing with my present horse anyway. I used counted walk to raise the with...

Tsavo

I have done a bunch of counted walk. I used to do it every ride. The main reason is so I can say I combine French and German. Just kidding!

I do it as slow as possible. That's the point. I think if I did it faster it would be collected walk but I have not tried to speed it up.

Tsavo

Ah okay I thought you were in TN, khall. Yes I am in NC.

I can believe GA is still a blast furnace. I lived in FL for 3 years. I will NEVER return.

Tsavo

In Canada where we rode in a heated indoor, horses were clipped. I have not clipped since but maybe you work more than I was working my horse.

Tsavo

Happy riding all!! As we swelter down here in the hot and humid deep south. It has really cooled down here. This is the last week we will get several days in the 80s I suspect. I was a little surprised to read that it is still so hot there. You are just over the mountains at about the same latitude...

Tsavo

I had a mare for 18 years and it was so good I only looked at mares for my next horse. I ended up with a gelding who I have had 14 years next month. I love my boy but I have not bonded with him like I did with my mare. I am going to try very hard to hold out for a mare for my last horse. I really do...

Tsavo

Dresseur, nice work! Sounds like that is a talent area for Miro.

Tsavo

If the lateral work isn't correct I post the work. If it gets better then I was blocking. I am working without mirrors as are many people so it is harder.

Tsavo

How long do you do that before you go to inside-outside though? Is this like BBM where you do it for a tiny while and then do balance within movement the entire rest of the training? I agree with Chisamba that you can't have a horse hollow on the inside rein and that it is easier to do SI with only ...

Tsavo

Aw very cute! Congratulations. What level is he?

Tsavo

My horse is sound on grass today. Now the grass is "level" which means not perfectly level like the ring but level enough such that I have felt him limp when he was limping. But no limp today. I did not trot in the ring and cashed my chips in on the grass soundness. I am back to riding leg...

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Chisamba I think I know the frustration of behavior coming out of nowhere. This other horse I ride has bouts of bucking. He bucked when I started riding him and never got me off so he stopped. I took lessons on him and rode him several days a week and no bucking. Then out of nowhere he starts buckin...

Tsavo

Well okay but even now that I have lived south of the Mason-Dixon in two states, I would not trust myself to not mix up these SE states. There are fairly homogeneous with some notable exceptions.

Tsavo

Oh come on! Who here has not confused Georgia for Alabama!

Tsavo

Well it has been about 3 weeks of lunging W/T/C 5 days a week to try to get my horse sound. The limp is much improved, could be described as slight, and I have hope. Last winter, he came sound in 2 weeks of 24/7 turnout. Either his condition is worse now which is not unlikely or the work I am doing ...

Tsavo

I agree riding a wiggly horse is different than riding a stiff sucker. The stiff ones look more correct more of the time but you have less to work with. With a wiggler it is absolutely imperative you establish the inside leg to outside rein as the only organizing principle that has a chance in hell ...

Tsavo

Ha! Working from a golf cart! Brilliant! And here I am running around with my horse on the track in a large jumping ring. I get as winded as I do on the treadmill. I am glad to get the exercise on the days I don't got to the gym but I have to admit I would use the golf cart if I had one. She doesn't...

Tsavo

same solution- just opposite way. I often do haunches out with either inside or outside flexion (the haunches is what i am touching, not shoulder) So I bend the horse to the outside of the circle and do haunches out with outside flexion or I have done haunches out with inside flexion basically I th...

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piedmontfields wrote:Tsavo, I think travers at canter is actually pretty hard for many horses so not something I'd jump on necessarily

travers in canter = canter HP

So third level. But I do agree it is hard which is why it works to straighten when off the rail.

Tsavo

Yes you are right. I did not think that through. Yes counterbending at canter is fine. That's what I was doing preparing for FCs. SI not so much

Tsavo

I have a thread that includes my horse's diagnosis and treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the third eyelid. My regular vet did an expert job and got clean margins so we didn't need chemo. I added pictures of the surgery and the histopath report. http://www.definitelydressage.com/viewtopic.php?f...

Tsavo

Tsavo, piedmont did you ever try counter bending/counter flexion to get the shoulders in alignment? Riding the PRE in Spain, the gelding I liked so much initially wanted to carry his haunches R. Instructor had me ride counter flexion on the circle cantering R. I think his crookedness came more from...

Tsavo

Tsavo, piedmont did you ever try counter bending/counter flexion to get the shoulders in alignment? Riding the PRE in Spain, the gelding I liked so much initially wanted to carry his haunches R. Instructor had me ride counter flexion on the circle cantering R. I think his crookedness came more from...

Tsavo

Tsavo, yes, your "crazy" HP method has a lot in common with my "go ahead and do travers for real down the long side" method! :lol: That is very clever, PF! Push it into an actual travers. You are asking for more bend but I am trying to quash it. I will try that if my horse comes...

Tsavo

I see your point, Scruffy.

Here, south of the Mason Dixon, I can get top quality retirement digs for about $400. It is one of the very few perks with keeping a horse here in this hothouse.

Tsavo

If the horse passes the buyer commits to buying. I would only do this with an FEI draft cross mare. This method weeds out the 95% of sellers who know the horse is sitting due to a lameness or illness.

Tsavo

You have to assume the horses who are out of work are out for a horse related reason. When I see those ads, if I was interested, I would ask the person to put the horse with a trainer for 3 months and if sound then I would do a PPE and if passed, retroactively pay for the three months training.

Tsavo

When I was having issues with haunches coming in at canter I would turn off the rail into that crookedness and come across the ring like a crazy HP. Without the rail to paste his shoulder against, he would straighten somewhat when coming across. I just kept doing that until he let me put his shoulde...

Tsavo

I don't know what your words mean. There is a whole school of riding that does balance before movement (at first). Then everyone is doing balance within movement. ok, but I am not talking about that. Anyways, I resolved my inner dialog so personally I moved on from my dilemmas. I have answers of wh...

Tsavo

I don't know what your words mean.

There is a whole school of riding that does balance before movement (at first). Then everyone is doing balance within movement.

Tsavo

My point was do you lift the sternum to find balance (@ halt walk etc) or do you use leg to engage to get a secondary result of the sternum lifting? I do counted walk (not halt-walk) to raise the sternum/withers in walk. While it works at walk I cannot carry that over into trot/canter for very long...

Tsavo

kande50 wrote:
Tsavo wrote:This is a faux debate. As faux as creationism versus evolution.

Maybe because I'm talking about "classical" dressage in which the horses actually collect, and you're talking about competitive dressage in which they stay on the forehand?

No.

Tsavo

If you are rebalancing at anything but halt then you are not doing BBM FULL STOP. Words have meanings.

Tsavo

This is a faux debate. As faux as creationism versus evolution.

Tsavo

They are not doing BBM up through the levels. A horse loses balance in a PSG test at least a few times and those people never come back to halt. That's because they fix the balance WITHIN the movement.

Tsavo

Nobody is doing BBM after the first few weeks and some never screw around with it and get up the levels. BBM is not a thing that warrants discussion because nobody who knows what they are doing is doing it for any time except the first few weeks. EVERYONE is doing BIM 99.999999% of the training time...

Tsavo

Really nice. Thanks for posting.

Tsavo

The one thing you can focus on is riding the horse in one piece. One piece that is in the outside rein. That is one thing. It is possible to hold a horse in position with mostly seat and a little outside rein if necessary eventually. There is lumping and there is splitting. While riding can be broke...

Tsavo

Anything you can do to get the horse correctly on the outside rein that works is probably okay. This assumes you have a "target" such that when the horse does go to the outside rein you recognize it and keep him there with elasticity and don't abandon ship (my specialty for years). Gettin...

Tsavo

I searched on "riding in position"

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22ridi ... e&ie=UTF-8

A bunch of stuff comes up on straightness. No coincidence there.

Tsavo

Anything you can do to get the horse correctly on the outside rein that works is probably okay. This assumes you have a "target" such that when the horse does go to the outside rein you recognize it and keep him there with elasticity and don't abandon ship (my specialty for years). Getting...

Tsavo

But too forward is worse than not active enough. Right. Avoid "too forward" at all times. That's running and not really forward. Leg is not descriptive. How do you use the leg? What area? How is your thigh placed? Do you rotate your leg in? I hope not. .. How is your horse reacting? Do yo...

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