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- Fri May 05, 2023 9:28 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Things I used to totally believe that are just not true
- Replies: 10
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Re: Things I used to totally believe that are just not true
I think number one is for where the foot lands, is where the nose is pointing? It can flick out past the nose but tends to land down where the nose is pointing. No it doesn't. I have screenshot many photos to check exactly that point. And yep number 2. I think even in the FEI guidelines they've sai...
- Wed May 03, 2023 9:49 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Austria!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2108
Re: Austria!
Enjoy. I hope the SRS becomes designated as an art so that they can qualify for the art subsidies instead of being run as a business.
- Wed May 03, 2023 8:57 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
- Replies: 206
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
Lol Mari. I acquired Fly when an Amish family sent him through a sale because he had so many road miles and they felt it was time for him to do something else. Only trouble being that a kill buyer bought him. I got a message that a girl wanted me to take her pony because she used her pocket money to...
- Wed May 03, 2023 8:42 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: UPDATE Below: 2 week deadline to trailer load - advice please
- Replies: 21
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Re: 2 week deadline to trailer load - advice please
Get him comfortable with a butt bat touching him nowhere near the trailer. Teach him to step forward when a butt bar ( looped to a rope ) touches him nowhere near the trailer. Then do it near the trailer. Then do it on the trailer but looped to him not the trailer so if he backs out the contact goes...
- Tue May 02, 2023 9:49 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Things I used to totally believe that are just not true
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2923
Re: Things I used to totally believe that are just not true
Tanga, i agree. just because you can, ( push a horse faster) doesn't mean you should. Maybe one should give them when more time to carefully mature that talent.
- Tue May 02, 2023 9:22 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
- Replies: 206
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Re: Springing into May and June - Goals and progress
May. I have a clinic with Patricia Kottas. I'm a bit nervous about it. I rode with her father and found him difficult to understand. I would like to enter a schooling show in May and a rated show June. July August. I feel like if I want to show I need to do it more consistently. I don't want to be t...
- Mon May 01, 2023 10:06 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Things I used to totally believe that are just not true
- Replies: 10
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Things I used to totally believe that are just not true
Feel free to add yours. Number one. The horse cannot extend its hoof past where it's nose is pointing. Having seen enough super slow motion horses with compressed necks and nose pointing to the chests/ footfall land well beyond where the nose is pointing. I know this little bit of thinking to simply...
- Sat Apr 29, 2023 2:25 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Ha, so I introduced the rein back as a tool to improve the canter on Saiph today and had to spend most of the lesson explaining that the rein back was NOT punishment but a smooth regathering of body parts to establish balance. Somewhere in her youth( I'm guessing) it was used punitively and I had to...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:11 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Exvet, that's so interesting. I used to use a rein back to improve the canter a lot, especially for Kea. , but I seem to have forgotten how useful that exercise is! Moutaineer, I would audit JS but I have noticed on some video that he spent far more time on the auditors than the rider so that could ...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 12:36 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
I'm excited for your progress mountaineer. Glad to hear MM is going under saddle again and managing. So as I suspected Kimba does have a tear on the medial branch of her rear right suspensory . I'm exploring the multiple options they have these days to treat. Meanwhile it's a matter of keeping her a...
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 7:48 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Unfortunately my Aunt passed. I also murdered a lamb . Sob. I have a barberpole worm problem and two of the lambs had adverse reaction to the antihelmithic. One survived but the other didn't. It was horrid. It's just been a horrid week. I called my SIL for her birthday to find she had been diagnosed...
- Sat Apr 22, 2023 12:55 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Yay for the heartbeat Khall. Keep an eye on her progesterone levels. I've had to supplement a few mid term Mama's with regulate to save the pregnancy
- Sat Apr 22, 2023 1:56 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Kimba came in with a hugely swollen hind leg. I have very scheduled next week since cold housing ice and nsaids I can manage . If it doesn't respond I'll do the urgent weekend thing. Andrea is coming this weekend and I'll report back on Saiph. I'm getting a little more riding fit again. I think it w...
- Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:32 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
It's one of the most interesting conundrums in training. How to avoid appeasing and only reward the correct response without over pressurizing or being harsh. I'll tell you what I do with Saiph. It's not been perfect because I cannot do it in the show ring where she is her most tense. I do what I ca...
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:09 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Flight, I absolutely loved your big boys equitation round. Exvet, I think junior would look a little flashier lean. I have the same problem with Saiph. Tanga the most frustrating thing is comparing yourself to others and wondering why the score differences were so disparate. I try to avoid it and co...
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 8:41 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
and I guess I'm just not skilled enough to help her regain uphill as we go Chisamba, I know it's easily said than done, but I feel you just have to keep doing them. Every day, just keep trying a few. It takes time for them to work it out and not become a big deal. It's hard on the rider because it ...
- Sat Apr 15, 2023 8:02 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Khall, my horses have not even shed their winter coats yet, they were so hot. It cooled and rained today. It certainly won't barn your horses to wait till you know what the problem is.
I'm contemplating a show in two weeks. I don't feel ready but do I ever feel ready lol.
I'm contemplating a show in two weeks. I don't feel ready but do I ever feel ready lol.
- Sat Apr 15, 2023 2:52 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Nice shot of A!!
- Sat Apr 15, 2023 12:24 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Moutaineer wrote:Good luck, Exvet!
Well I got first tracks of the year in the outdoor arena today. It was wonderful. Potters is such a happy boy outside.
Wow it was 90 here. The outdoor was hot and buggy
- Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:49 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Good luck and good changes, exvet
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:20 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Chisamba, my Norsey will probably always have a bit of a dip in front of his wither too. He has such a big wither. Nice improvement with Hero too though. What's going wrong with your flying changes? My flying changes. Kimba actually died a better flying change than Saiph. And physically she seems t...
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 12:44 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Tanga, within my own horses I too look much better on the bigger horses. But I started with Arabians and I think I find the smaller ones easier to ride But a super slender rider does look better. Having said that, a large rider who is male rarely is judged poorly and i really really believe females ...
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:52 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Some one on a Facebook thread said a certain person was cruel rider. When asked how she knew the response was " you cannot get to the top with out being cruel"
I suppose there might be a number of people who believe that.
I suppose there might be a number of people who believe that.
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:36 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Oh. Would dearly love to know if there is a short cut to 15 one tempi . Lol. K I know that is not really funny
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 6:27 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Exvet, my horses are all rehabs. Perhaps that is why I don't expect to be comparable to the fancy horses. I also get quite offended if some one tells me I shouldn't waste my time on a horse because it's ordinary. In this I agree with you. But in this I choose to disagree with perhaps both you and Ta...
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 11:16 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: We’re going to a show! **UPDATE!!**
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4554
Re: We’re going to a show!
Don't over ride. Try to ignore that fact that you are being judged. Just do the things you do well with confidence and return to normal as quickly as possible after any spooks or mistakes.
Good luck
Good luck
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:07 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Fortunately for you I just fell victim to the l Post devouring monster. Lol. In brief I said I think dressage training is by and large much kinder now that it was 50 years ago. . Despite the dark rollkur years. Everyone now has phones, videos and everyone wants to catch someone riding badly. Some of...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 4:34 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
I have changed my mind about several things over a few decades and i am ok with that. If you can't change your mind why bother to have one. Doggedly sticking to a principle is one thing I choose not to do. I try to listen to the horse. In simple terms I prefer bare foot horses. I also know that some...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 2:19 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
I have seen Serenade in person a few times and I think she is a very elegant mare who I enjoy watching . I think Daleera is beautifully light in the contact and I wish my spooky distracted mare would go so nicely once under saddle. Daleera has piaffe and passage I would aspire to and generally I lik...
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 4:08 pm
- Forum: Freecycle Forum
- Topic: Free books—ONE ADDITIONAL
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6362
Re: Free books
Thank you, what a lovely gift. It arrived today and sitting on my verandah in the sun reading
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:29 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Home schooling
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2282
Re: Home schooling
I had no trouble with how schooling academically. It was without a doubt the immersion in a group of people with likeable, not likeable, social, unsocial, liars, and the social diaspora that I did not know i needed and that i did not get. I also missed out on sports, music, art and staging plays, ac...
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:20 pm
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Piggy's laminitis journey
- Replies: 77
- Views: 19685
Re: Piggy's laminitis journey
Does not look laminitis in that sequence lol
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:00 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Home schooling
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2282
Re: Home schooling
BUT: no matter how academically savvy you may be as a parent, you know that you do not get in home schooling? Diversity. And I do not only mean cultural Diversity, I mean families. Single patent families, grandparents families, divorced families, unhappy families, gender diversities, special needs c...
- Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:57 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Home schooling
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2282
Home schooling
My hubby and I were recently invited to dinner with new acquaintances. The topic of home schooling came up. ( I avoid the topic usually lol) and I mentioned , I thought in simple conversation, that I had hated being home schooled. Apparently one is not allowed to have a personal opinion about the to...
- Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:11 am
- Forum: Freecycle Forum
- Topic: Free books—ONE ADDITIONAL
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6362
Re: Free books
I would be interested in the Udo Burger one if still available please.
- Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:08 am
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Do horses grieve?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2192
Re: Do horses grieve?
I do show the body of a deceased pasture mate. I think I helps them know the friend is not coming back. I still think they are bothered by their absence ( grieve) even if they are stoic. We lost a younger horse to colic and it's bonded aged friend deteriorated so rapidly that she had to help them ov...
- Thu Mar 30, 2023 4:44 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Ok my brain trust, Saiph is pretty relaxed and confident in her warm up, but as I transition to more demanding work she opens her lips and shows her teeth. I would think that is related to the hard work of collection, but even other riders have noticed that she seems to do it most commonly when give...
- Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:19 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Flight, if I could take my wisdom of contact now, to when I was young and ambitious, I would have really known how to ride. Lol. I was taking to Andrea Hausberger, ( the recently fired head rider at the Spanish Riding school.) Apparently one may not tell the CEO that the horses need more time off an...
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 6:45 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
I did a test run through of the PsG test. One canter pirouette we broke and there was an extra buck in both flying change lines which I wasn't sure how to count. Lol. I guess I'm thinking I might be able to clean it all up for competition Otherwise it's been dentals, vaccinations, spring up and down...
- Fri Mar 17, 2023 7:57 pm
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Any new ideas to get a horse to drink?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2470
Re: Any new ideas to get a horse to drink?
Tubed electrolytes are my go to for horse not drinking enough.
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 12:41 pm
- Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
- Topic: Pen(wo)manship tune up?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3048
Re: Pen(wo)manship tune up?
I did a course in graphology in college. I had to do an elective and it was offered in the diet of pseudo science psychology realm. They claimed you could delete unfavorable personality traits by practicing correct handwriting. ( the theory being that if certain traits are reflected in handwriting, ...
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 12:37 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Sports Bras...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2896
Re: Sports Bras...
Have you tried shefit. They are infinitely ( almost) adjustable so you can choose to tighten the shoulders and nack.more than the torso. My friend's love them. I do not. I l like the Victoria secret sports bra. Surprisingly, but they are quite tight around the torso
- Sat Mar 04, 2023 7:00 pm
- Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
- Topic: Piggy's laminitis journey
- Replies: 77
- Views: 19685
Re: Piggy's laminitis journey
Hip hip hooray
- Sat Mar 04, 2023 6:29 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Non-silicone FS breeches
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3698
Re: Non-silicone FS breeches
Both of my fits basically shredded in the first wash. The second was a replacement for the first that did it.
Then I saw a pair dissolve on a rider at a show. They looked like a spider web.
Then I saw a pair dissolve on a rider at a show. They looked like a spider web.
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:50 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: March (and April) of Progress
- Replies: 221
- Views: 265216
Re: March (and April) of Progress
Honey. Wtc. Introduce canter under saddle Kimba. Lightness. Improve canter. Improve flying changes. Saiph. PsG canter work. So it seems the theme of the lion and lamb months are canter, canter canter. Personally, find a way to deal with depression and tiredness that is less to do with stuffing my fa...
- Tue Feb 28, 2023 11:49 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Getting Dressage-y in 2023: January-February Goals and Progress
- Replies: 249
- Views: 393571
Re: Getting Dressage-y in 2023: January-February Goals and Progress
Life changes. Lex sold ( still training him ) Honey Brook Beauty. Finally comfortable with the bit. Able to be led without attempting to run circles around the leader. Able to stand tied, stand for farrier and almost stand to be mounted. Going walk trot, haven't even attempted canter. Saiph, preppin...
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 8:29 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Getting Dressage-y in 2023: January-February Goals and Progress
- Replies: 249
- Views: 393571
Re: Getting Dressage-y in 2023: January-February Goals and Progress
I came to write what StraightForward wrote. ( without suggesting pink) I usually match my gloves to the horse to encourage a seamless appearance from arm to neck.
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 8:23 am
- Forum: Tack, Apparel, Facilities and Transportation
- Topic: Girth wear
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1521
Re: Girth wear
I would suggest the buyer replace the girth.
- Thu Feb 23, 2023 3:50 pm
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Getting Dressage-y in 2023: January-February Goals and Progress
- Replies: 249
- Views: 393571
Re: Getting Dressage-y in 2023: January-February Goals and Progress
Blob, it is possibly not diet related and a hypomotility disorder. There is a human drug they recently started using with horses. I love your boots StraightForward. We have had some drama, a rabid raccoon was struggling around the barn so I'm in the process of getting everyone vaccinated for rabies....
- Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:37 am
- Forum: Dressage Training
- Topic: Getting Dressage-y in 2023: January-February Goals and Progress
- Replies: 249
- Views: 393571
Re: Getting Dressage-y in 2023: January-February Goals and Progress
Chiming in on the bloating topic I have two in my care that cannot be on pasture because the green grasses , especially in this bizarre early spring, cause horrible gas, to the point of bloat. They are on a largely hay diet, and the low sugar hay. Just to add to the arsenal of information.