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by Tsavo
Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:54 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.
Replies: 442
Views: 213648

Re: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.

Ryeissa wrote:
Tsavo wrote:If any apologies for broken line upward are due I suggest they start with the top riders in the world. Then maybe we will move down the line.


? what does this mean?


(no apologies are due)
by Tsavo
Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:49 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.
Replies: 442
Views: 213648

Re: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.

If any apologies for broken line upward are due I suggest they start with the top riders in the world. Then maybe we will move down the line.
by Tsavo
Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:16 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.
Replies: 442
Views: 213648

Re: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.

blob wrote:
Tsavo wrote:
Ryeissa wrote:
Flight has a straight line from bit to elbow.


Print the picture and get a ruler and draw lines.


The line from bradoon to elbow is straight.


We must be looking at two different pictures
by Tsavo
Sun Sep 01, 2019 9:12 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.
Replies: 442
Views: 213648

Re: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.

Dresseur those photos are very nice. I would just like to point out you and flight are in the elite crowd in riding with a broken line up. At some point the books will catch up on this point given all the empirical evidence of efficacy. Flight has a straight line from bit to elbow. Print the pictur...
by Tsavo
Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:59 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.
Replies: 442
Views: 213648

Re: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.

Dresseur those photos are very nice. I would just like to point out you and flight are in the elite crowd in riding with a broken line up. At some point the books will catch up on this point given all the empirical evidence of efficacy.
by Tsavo
Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:56 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.
Replies: 442
Views: 213648

Re: Cool down and keep going! September/October Goals and Progress.

Flight I really admire your equitation there. The whole picture is exemplary.
by Tsavo
Sat Aug 31, 2019 3:48 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Seat Aids for Transitions - clinic notes and thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 20586

Re: Seat Aids for Transitions - clinic notes and thoughts

Crowding the pommel as a default solves a lot. I stay to the front because everything is easier when I do so. I think it works to flatten the lumbar which causes better alignment which make weight aiding more clear with less overt aiding. Breath and thought as aids work better when crowding the pomm...
by Tsavo
Sat Aug 31, 2019 12:57 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Susanne von Dietz Educational Event in Landrum SC
Replies: 60
Views: 28196

Re: Susanne von Dietz Educational Event in Landrum SC

In my opinion, the fundamental roadblock that riders have to break through is marrying the ability to register when the horse is correct to when the horse is actually correct. Several people on this thread have stated that in one way or another. Everyone starts from a place of extreme disadvantage a...
by Tsavo
Thu Aug 29, 2019 5:09 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Re: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

Ryeissa wrote:
Tsavo wrote:
Ponichiwa wrote:
In a word-- that horse is lame.


Well wasn't there a recent study concluding many dressage horses are not necessarily sound?



?? most horses aren't sound....


Well including rider induced unevenness, yes that is my recollection. Someone here will remember this.
by Tsavo
Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:30 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Re: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

Ponichiwa wrote:
Tsavo wrote:So then what is the correct word for denoting that a trot does not vary versus a trot that varies but both maintain the same tempo?


In a word-- that horse is lame.


Well wasn't there a recent study concluding many dressage horses are not necessarily sound?
by Tsavo
Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:43 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Re: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

I have highlighted a word in this definition which came up when searching "dressage rhythm"... https://dressagetoday.com/theory/difference-between-rhythm-and-tempo-in-dressage-heather-blitz Tempo: The rate or speed of motion or activity Rhythm: A strong, regular , repeated pattern of movem...
by Tsavo
Wed Aug 28, 2019 2:20 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Re: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

Metronomes fix tempo, but the rhythm is free to go bananas. Rhythm is the precise regularity which evokes the metronome motif. The absence of tempo changes. When I hear "metronome trot", I think of horses that keep a consistent tempo without much input from the rider. They can do this ove...
by Tsavo
Wed Aug 28, 2019 2:14 am
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: The past 24 hours haven't been great
Replies: 33
Views: 18247

Re: The past 24 hours haven't been great

Great news! Glad to hear it.
by Tsavo
Tue Aug 27, 2019 2:20 am
Forum: Senior Horses/Senior Riders
Topic: Cellulitis
Replies: 9
Views: 8876

Re: Cellulitis

musical comedy wrote:I have heard the horses in the south get celluitis all the time from the humidity.


You can say that again. Humidity or something. :-0
by Tsavo
Mon Aug 26, 2019 2:04 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Re: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

Chisamba wrote:Rhythm and tempo are not related, most horses have a true 2 beat rhythm for trot, most horses change tempo in the areas I mentioned above.

So yes , rhythm is nature, tempo is nurture.


I am talking about rhythm, not tempo.
by Tsavo
Mon Aug 26, 2019 11:20 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Re: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

By metronome trot do you mean the first stride of trot after a transition is the same as every other stride? That when you lengthen stride or make a small circle the tempo is identical? Absolutely no change of tempo with changes of direction or lateral work. I am a skeptic. No horse is perfect. I a...
by Tsavo
Mon Aug 26, 2019 11:15 am
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: The Pit of Eternal Despair - AKA Stall Rest/Hand Walking UPDATE
Replies: 70
Views: 39049

Re: The Pit of Eternal Despair - AKA Stall Rest/Hand Walking UPDATE

No jury would convict any owner who put a horse down facing months of stall rest. The cure is worse than the disease. I think plenty of people would highly criticize an owner that put a horse down if there was the even the slimmest chance of recovery, even if that recovery meant pasture ornament fo...
by Tsavo
Mon Aug 26, 2019 3:02 am
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: The Pit of Eternal Despair - AKA Stall Rest/Hand Walking UPDATE
Replies: 70
Views: 39049

Re: The Pit of Eternal Despair - AKA Stall Rest/Hand Walking UPDATE

Hope your mare feels better soon! Stall rest is the bane of my existence. At this point, if I were faced with a lengthy amount of time stalled I would probably think long and hard about euthanasia. I tried to rehab my boy for nearly 4 years after a severe tendon injury and I would be hard pressed t...
by Tsavo
Sun Aug 25, 2019 5:05 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Re: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

Rhythm is the only part of the training scale I don't really find to be a problem? Maybe it's me, but I find most horses can have a metronome trot with no problem. Struggling to think of a horse I've worked with that had rhythm challenges. I think any issues just arise out of balance problems, whic...
by Tsavo
Sun Aug 25, 2019 1:47 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Re: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

How does this play into the balance before movement idea? Isn't the premise of that that ALL horses are NOT balanced and you have to keep coming down to halt, regain balance, and then move again? Then we have my question about how many times a PSG horse comes out of balance in a random PSG test and ...
by Tsavo
Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:51 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Re: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

Rhythm is the only part of the training scale I don't really find to be a problem? Maybe it's me, but I find most horses can have a metronome trot with no problem. Struggling to think of a horse I've worked with that had rhythm challenges. I think any issues just arise out of balance problems, whic...
by Tsavo
Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:50 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Re: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

He maintains it over hill and dale.
by Tsavo
Sun Aug 25, 2019 1:58 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Metronome trots... nature or nurture?
Replies: 37
Views: 19644

Metronome trots... nature or nurture?

The horse I exercise has a metronome trot. He is an OTTB.

Was this trained or was he born that way?
by Tsavo
Thu Aug 22, 2019 11:25 am
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: To thine own self be true...
Replies: 29
Views: 17417

Re: To thine own self be true...

Xanthoria wrote: - competed at intermediate eventing and was for sale for a pretty reasonable price. - I could not get her to settle. However, I absolutely loved her and didn’t feel unsafe. - Her competition record though was very spotty, with her professional writer and another Olympic rider having...
by Tsavo
Tue Aug 20, 2019 10:53 am
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: The past 24 hours haven't been great
Replies: 33
Views: 18247

Re: The past 24 hours haven't been great

Oh I am so sorry about your baby girl pig. Huge loss. I have pigs. I adopt as many as I have room for from a rodent rescue. They live for years and it is so bad to lose them.

Good luck with your mare. I hope she recovers quickly.
by Tsavo
Tue Aug 20, 2019 3:42 am
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: Assessment lesson: is this normal?
Replies: 38
Views: 21596

Re: Assessment lesson: is this normal?

Is there someone who has a horse who needs to be exercised? My present BO had a second horse who she wanted exercised and asked our farrier if he knew anyone who needed saddle time. I had just retired my horse to the property next door. It was wonderful having a horse to ride and I brought my horse ...
by Tsavo
Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:15 am
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: Expense Related Thread (Retirement, etc.)
Replies: 20
Views: 12246

Re: Expense Related Thread (Retirement, etc.)

In re food bills, I can't take anyone seriously until they become vegan. Come to fight psychopathy in factory farms; stay for the health benefits. :-)
by Tsavo
Sun Aug 18, 2019 3:26 pm
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: Expense Related Thread (Retirement, etc.)
Replies: 20
Views: 12246

Re: Expense Related Thread (Retirement, etc.)

I am talking a one time consult like my husband did.
by Tsavo
Sun Aug 18, 2019 2:58 pm
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: Expense Related Thread (Retirement, etc.)
Replies: 20
Views: 12246

Re: Expense Related Thread (Retirement, etc.)

Well I think the best advice is to talk to a qualified financial planner. Although my husband has an MBA and has been managing our financials, his company made an adviser available for free so he consulted him. He made some projections calculation ... how much money we will need in retirement and ho...
by Tsavo
Sat Aug 17, 2019 11:08 pm
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: Is it wrong that I?
Replies: 13
Views: 9603

Re: Is it wrong that I?

Yes those are fine. There are no rules regarding these matters. Even if there were rules you are free to ignore them.

Next.
by Tsavo
Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:51 pm
Forum: Young Horse Forum and Breeding and Registries
Topic: Am I going to even find a 1/4-3/4 Clyde cross mare to try?
Replies: 31
Views: 20885

Re: Am I going to even find a 1/4-3/4 Clyde cross mare to try?

I am vetting a 1/4 clyde at the end of the month. She is in the middle of nowhere and not where you would expect to find such a horse.
by Tsavo
Sat Aug 17, 2019 2:58 am
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: Vaccine reactions
Replies: 16
Views: 11159

Re: Vaccine reactions

Is it every shot or just one of them? Are there different vaccine companies? If so try a different company. A mare at my barn has a spectacularly bad reaction to one of the spring shots. She had to be taken to the hospital and stayed for a few days. The vaccine company picked up the entire bill. I n...
by Tsavo
Sat Aug 17, 2019 12:05 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Default brain settiings
Replies: 13
Views: 9018

Re: Default brain settiings

Beorn wrote:When I'm feeling positive about it, I say that I enjoy the journey. The other times I'm just thoroughly frustrated. ;)


I felt this way for years until I figured out how to change my frustration into focus. At this point I am determined to improve mainly out of spite. LOL
by Tsavo
Fri Aug 16, 2019 3:56 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Default brain settiings
Replies: 13
Views: 9018

Re: Default brain settiings

When you have a sport where even the elite players are still using mirrors to aid their proprioception, where the actual f*** does that leave us hapless clueless despondent ammy ilk???
by Tsavo
Fri Aug 16, 2019 3:43 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Default brain settiings
Replies: 13
Views: 9018

Re: Default brain settiings

Beorn yes I agree that is the same concept I am discussing. I think the way you work up the pyramid is an unprecedented and almost unnatural level of focus. I am talking about a level that is never needed anywhere else in life. When the goal is to ride an animal that can sense minute shifts of weigh...
by Tsavo
Fri Aug 16, 2019 12:58 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Default brain settiings
Replies: 13
Views: 9018

Re: Default brain settiings

I think it is hard to evaluate what is default at this stage, because there are so many things I do without thinking or even realizing that I do. We all do things without thinking. The dressage game is to get the wrong things off default and the right things on default. I bought a 2/3 horse in 2004...
by Tsavo
Fri Aug 16, 2019 12:26 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Default brain settiings
Replies: 13
Views: 9018

Re: Default brain settiings

In a nutshell, constantly plowing old ground will not allow movement to new ground. I got so sick of plowing old ground that I just tried something, anything different. I may not succeed every time but I will die trying. I WILL die on that hill. And I will cut off everything to spite everything in g...
by Tsavo
Fri Aug 16, 2019 12:20 pm
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: *Add histopath report... Vet visit... one surprise after the next. Report and photos added
Replies: 44
Views: 24526

Re: *Add histopath report... Vet visit... one surprise after the next. Report and photos added

Hi khall.

I am vetting a horse at the end of the month. There is some chance the horse will fail out on radiography but I have high hopes she won't.
by Tsavo
Fri Aug 16, 2019 12:06 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Default brain settiings
Replies: 13
Views: 9018

Re: Default brain settiings

This is how people advance in my opinion... they have successful and quick warm ups made possible by their body not their brain monitoring the situation and not having to consciously address a million things every damn ride. I've read before where people are able to say I do this/that/whatever with...
by Tsavo
Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:51 am
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: *Add histopath report... Vet visit... one surprise after the next. Report and photos added
Replies: 44
Views: 24526

Re: *Add histopath report... Vet visit... one surprise after the next. Report and photos added

I had a lovely blind horse that I rode to 4th level. They ride well and as a rider you just have to be mindful of being their seeing eye. But I don't remember if your handsome Pete us sound. Best wishes. I finally retired Pete a second time and for good due to ringbone. I had hope for autofusion bu...
by Tsavo
Thu Aug 15, 2019 3:26 am
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: *Add histopath report... Vet visit... one surprise after the next. Report and photos added
Replies: 44
Views: 24526

Re: *Add histopath report... Vet visit... one surprise after the next. Report and photos added

Sorry that it returned :( Glad he is adapting quickly, he is beautiful :) I suspect it is the same cancer that occurred in another area. There were other horses at the hospital there for eye cancer so it must not be that rare. Rarer in a black-skinned horse but not rare. I think he got a ton of sun...
by Tsavo
Thu Aug 15, 2019 3:21 am
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: *Add histopath report... Vet visit... one surprise after the next. Report and photos added
Replies: 44
Views: 24526

Re: *Add histopath report... Vet visit... one surprise after the next. Report and photos added

Yes, Pete is still totally handsome. Glad he fared well....and sounds like you did, too. Thanks PF. In hindsight, I worried too much about this. So amazing how he coped. I see what he does now... he has 180 from the left eye and just has to turn his head a bit to get some of what is on the right. T...
by Tsavo
Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:49 am
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: *Add histopath report... Vet visit... one surprise after the next. Report and photos added
Replies: 44
Views: 24526

Re: *Add histopath report... Vet visit... one surprise after the next. Report and photos added

Despite the clean margins, the cancer returned and I opted to have the eye removed. My horse adapted in what seemed like hours and not days. I was not offered the option of a prosthesis for some reason though I would have chosen it. So jealous were the cancer gods of Pete's beauty that they stole hi...
by Tsavo
Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:12 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Stirrup Positioning
Replies: 40
Views: 21725

Re: Stirrup Positioning

As for DeKunffy, I would never call him an expert. I knew him and he lived around here. He wrote many books and he had many theories, but little actual knowledge from practical application. He came from Hungary as an 18 year old groom and that was his big experience. Little anecdote... one of the p...
by Tsavo
Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:07 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Default brain settiings
Replies: 13
Views: 9018

Re: Default brain settiings

Oh I have some things also that are not on default. I am just saying that list of things is a turning point for me in terms of my body/brain helping me by bringing to attention when something ISN'T right so I can fix it right away as opposed to my body/brain being oblivious to when things weren't ri...
by Tsavo
Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:36 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Default brain settiings
Replies: 13
Views: 9018

Default brain settiings

These are my default brain settings for my riding at the moment... I do these things 95+% of the time and without thinking: 1. SF 2. Inside to outside 3. Neutral spine 4. Stay on with balance alone - no gripping anywhere 5. Never sustain the aid 6. Seat and leg first - rein is rarely the fix. 7. For...
by Tsavo
Mon Aug 12, 2019 2:50 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Your favorite patterns/exercises and what they do
Replies: 10
Views: 7740

Re: Your favorite patterns/exercises and what they do

Allow me to demystify HP for you... do a travers against polls placed on the diagonal. Then take away the polls and ride the same line with the same bend, HP. I like counted walk to elevate the withers, shaukel to get and keep the horse's attention, canter squares to explain collecting, CC for strai...
by Tsavo
Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:11 am
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: Why acupuncture is complete nonsense
Replies: 93
Views: 44142

Re: Why acupuncture is complete nonsense

Yes, but the OP had no response at all to DJR's excellent post with direct experience on the subject as a medical professional, so I'd say there is no discussion happening, just more ranting about flat earthers. I do not read all the posts. This decisions are not made based on trying to avoid point...
by Tsavo
Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:20 am
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: Why acupuncture is complete nonsense
Replies: 93
Views: 44142

Re: Why acupuncture is complete nonsense

Dreamer wrote:Another believer in acupuncture here. I’m thankful that I have an open mind to try things that may help me or my animals.


If you had evidence you wouldn't have to settle for belief.

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