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Tsavo

If there is any benefit to the horse from this it is to supple. That said, I missed that benefit when I was taught it and was just using it to learn to ride the body and not the neck/head, arguably a key skill.

Tsavo

In my.opinion hand riding is anything you do with your hands . Raise your hands? Lower your hands? Use any of the 5 rein aids, I have had this argument before so I wont do it again but anyone who says they dont hand ride, I probably disbelieve. , Well when people speak of "hand riding" th...

Tsavo

What is hand riding? My definition is doing with the hands anything that should be done with seat or leg. Therefore things that are hand riding include: backward hand seesawing closing the hand (which should already be closed) Things which are not hand riding because you can't do them with seat or l...

Tsavo

I don't think there's any requirement to come back to halt to rebalance, If the rebalancing is done at anything other than halt, it is BY DEFINITION balance within movement. There is no room to finesse this and no ground to stand on if you claim otherwise. Words have meanings. I asked a GP trainer ...

Tsavo

Tsavo- I have a friend who got a PMU horse and is now very, very successfully showing Third! PMU babies rock. I have a small concern about doing anything to support that heinous industry, though. I saw one today who was a total fruitloop. So cuckoo I got off after 3 minutes of going backwards and g...

Tsavo

I maybe didn't explain very well, its a choice to use leg driving aids first as a solution or lift the sternum and slow the front legs to gain balance. I have to do both. Its essentially the classical half halt, but my understanding of it comes from a deeper understanding of German and French schoo...

Tsavo

I have been really struggling with the forward first or balance first, and for riot it's BOTH at the SAME TIME. It's not forward versus balance. It is movement versus balance. What to do first. If you are moving, you are doing doing balance within movement. If you come back to halt to regain balanc...

Tsavo

I thought of doing an ISO but as soon as someone posted the horse it is no longer a horse who hasn't been advertised! Actually I am just kidding but I suspect the people who post about horses are posting horses that are elsewhere being advertised. I could say ISO a horse who has never been advertise...

Tsavo

kande50 wrote:
Xanthoria wrote:
Last night about 2/3 of the time he did great and got lots of praise and a click, and a few treats occasionally.

My suggestion is that if you're not going to treat then don't click, because otherwise the click will lose its value.

I treat but don't click.

Tsavo

And it's not just the price of the horse. If I bought a truly pricey horse I would insure it. And insurance is not cheap. For my last horse, I don't want to worry about a huge loss or having to buy insurance. I am going to find a horse by word of mouth where the owner knows the horse will have a hom...

Tsavo

I haven't used soap on my horse in many many years. He is shiny because he has his natural oils. For the last several years before his retirement, in summer I only hosed him once a month so as to not let his feet get too wet. But I sponged him every day I rode in summer. I sometimes used vetrolin. I...

Tsavo

I do have the go ahead to ride lightly, but right now with the heat just not even bothering. It's so bad here in the SE the trainer where I have Gaila (who shows this weekend WD) her DH is a farrier, he left a client passed out from over heating driving and struck a tree and telephone pole. I know ...

Tsavo

When you learn to ride putting the neck anywhere and nothing else changes, then it becomes easy to put the neck EXACTLY where it belongs. It makes the right thing seem easy so you ingrain it in your body. This is a RIDER exercise in my opinion.

Tsavo

Thanks Amado for that data point. Are the sores on white?

This thread has been very enlightening.

My horse has been clear for a while now. I can only assume it is the power of no prayer whatsoever.

Tsavo

All of what Chisamba wrote agrees with my understanding of this. I remembered another thing that instructor (A) had me do... ride serpentines with the neck to the left (or the right). The purpose was to teach me to ride the shoulders/body no matter what the line of travel. I interpret these types of...

Tsavo

I had an instructor that had me doing fléchi droit though she never called it that. As I understood it, it was a way to teach the rider how to ride the shoulders. I can clearly remember her saying you should be able to put the neck anywhere and the body should not change one bit. When you can do tha...

Tsavo

Yes it is a drop and not a flash. I found the measurements of the pieces on the page MC posted. I guess I will measure those areas on my horse. I think he is probably going to be in regular range and not the large but if the large will fit I want to buy it.

Tsavo

Thanks to Chisamba and Rosie for posting the pictures. Very nice.

I am watching radar for a break in the rain to work my horse and the other horse I ride.

Tsavo

Wow thanks MC. I will take you up on that kind offer if I can determine a large will fit him. He is a conehead. How do I measure him?

Tsavo

What with the talk of monocrown (I had to look that up), I have been considering buying a Micklem bridle from a friend. I like the look but is it just a built in flash (plus bizarrely a dropped throatlatch)? I don't ride with the flash lately (last several months) in my quest not to jam my horse in ...

Tsavo

Imperini, glad to hear you were able to improve the stifle issue with targeted work. I just wanted to mention that how you ride can cause or prevent falling out at least on my horse. If I allow him to just trot along and not put him in one piece, he will sometimes fall out. I can prevent falling out...

Tsavo

Torso rotated from the abs so that my shoulders mirror hers. Either Mary Wanless or Sally Swift called it the barbershop pole. And it worked. Not perfect but much improved. In SvD's book, Balance in Movement, she talks about needing to do rotation with EVERY bend of the horse. "Every lateral b...

Tsavo

"Aged horses with PPID were more likely to have had a history of laminitis than non-diagnosed horses."

https://thehorse.com/115851/ppid-risk-f ... s-studied/

Tsavo

Have to read carefully about how this subgroup was selected but I think these are among confirmed cases... "For 44 horses included in the follow-up study, the most commons signs were hirsutism (84%) and laminitis (50%)." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1939-1676.2012.0093...

Tsavo

A bit more than 1/5 of horses >15 yo had PPID

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 3318300649

Tsavo

I wouldn't say I have "feelings" about screening. I would say there either is or is not enough evidence to justify it.

Tsavo

Srhorselady, thanks for that info. I will look for that article. I will ask my vet again if my horse should be screened for Cushing on the basis of scratches. That said, when I brought up the concern and asked him about the connection, he did not then volunteer that we should screen my horse for Cus...

Tsavo

Tanks khall. And thanks ryeissa. That is some serious biological mumbo jumbo. Looking at hat specimen, I cannot imagine where they found a margin that was 1.2 cm! There is a reason I didn't go into bio! LOL.

Tsavo

How often is laminitis the FIRST indication of Cushings given the long list of signs and symptoms of which that is one?

Are you really saying all horses who get scratches should be screened for Cushings? Would any vet agree with that?

Tsavo

Define "often" There are 6 horses in this barn. Three have scratches, my horse (now clear) and two others who are younger. Fifty percent. Is it possible my horse got scratches because he is developing Cushings? Yes. Is it likely given the barn situation? Not really. (Money shot) Should the...

Tsavo

Clean margins but we have to watch him. So relieved! My vet is a superstar getting clean margins on that thing.

I don't understand at least half that report and I missed the vet's call. But pretty sure my horse is in the clear.

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Tsavo

How frequent is laminitis the first indication of PPID? I mean don't most horses have some other sign or symptom first?

Tsavo

Yes but the point is you can't diagnose Cushing's just based on scratches. That is, not all horses with scratches have Cushing's. In fact I suspect only a very small fraction of horses with scratches have Cushings.

Tsavo

okay that garish limp is gone and we are back to limping on the LF when going right, the exact thing I retired him for about a year ago. This I can make sound with work.

I lunged him today. I trot him then canter him and then see if the trot improved. It did. Both directions. This is arthritis.

Tsavo

The air will not compress. The container might change if the material is flexible. I don't know if air-filed panels are flexible. If they are then it will be like a bouncy ball. If not then it will be like a brick.

Tsavo

Ryeissa wrote:
Tsavo wrote:
Ponichiwa wrote:I must be misreading you. Air is very compressible.

I meant under the weight of a rider.

Exactly the problem with air

There is no way it wouldnt feel like a brick to the horse.

Tsavo

Ponichiwa wrote:I must be misreading you. Air is very compressible.

I meant under the weight of a rider.

Tsavo

This is not a debate. The only point is to gather data to understand better. I have no dog in this fight because there is no fight. On a boring scale of 1 (least) to 10 (most) I put this discussion at an 8 or 9. The panels are designed to distribute the weight over a large area. They may largely do ...

Tsavo

My horse can pose. If I take the slack out it can look like he is on the bit (to some instructors) but he isn't. Once I realized that I ask instructors to get on. I also like them to check my work.

Tsavo

Nice report, Dresseur. Dressage, for me, has produced more situations with me thinking I am an idiot than everything else in my life combined. The people who say dressage is straight-forward or obvious sound high. LOL My horse was cleared for work today after his surgery. Yesterday in the pasture he...

Tsavo

Look at the false color picture on this web site. If my saddle allowed that much concentrated pressure I think I would have to get it fitted better or use more padding assuming those differences are not minuscule which they might be and they just blew up the scale for clarity. http://www.sensorprod....

Tsavo

Ryeissa wrote:
Tsavo wrote:Where is the weight on the horse when standing in the stirrups?

Where is the weight on the horse when riding legs away?

I think the answer to both is all along the panels.

For 1: in ankles
For 2: in seatbones if not careful

I asked where the weight is ON THE HORSE not in the rider.

Tsavo

Tsavo did not respond to my specific observation that without a saddle one can lift the weight off the horses back completely by closing the thighs. There is a way to lighten the seat that excludes saddle panels or stirrups. I do think you can have all your weight on the thighs with none in the sti...

Tsavo

Apparently reindeer furs pads are best... LOL

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20156245

Tsavo

Okay she is abstracting other articles. She also says... Saddle pressure mats measure the force applied to the horse’s back and the pressure distribution pattern. So some of these articles DID look at pressure distribution (assuming by"distribution" she means in space). Yet she doesn't tal...

Tsavo

Okay here's my opinion on that piece. First it is not the article so I would have to pull that to see the methods section. Second, she is just discussing force in the time domain. She did not discuss force in the spatial domain which was the crux of my exchange with Chisamba. Either her force pad un...

Tsavo

Dr. Hillary Clayton has done studies on this using pressure mats. This article may answer some questions, and then, maybe it will generate more questions. https://equusmagazine.com/riding/posting-easier-horses-30159 Well that was interesting. Have to think about it. Thanks for posting it. No pun in...

Tsavo

Where is the weight on the horse when standing in the stirrups?

Where is the weight on the horse when riding legs away?

I think the answer to both is all along the panels.

Tsavo

Chisamba wrote:Jingling that he recovers well. Poor horsey

Thanks Chisamba. Hoping to hear today.

Tsavo

Tuddy wrote:Thanks for the report! Hope he heals up quick for you!

Thanks Tuddy

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