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Chisamba I really like these progression pictures they are excellent for showing young horse progression.

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Nice leheath! Glad shows and clinic went well.

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Flight then I would spend time raising BOTH knees up off the saddle and then letting them back down. First at just the halt and then at least at the walk, maybe trot if your horse is good. This will help loosen your hip joint, releasing it so you can drape your leg I feel your pain! Wide horse, wide...

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I like the colorful one as well, not so much BandW.

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I also like change diagonal every 3 strides. May have to go back to this one myself! Are you pinching with your knee that your lower leg is loose? I really concentrate on keeping my hips, thighs and knees soft and draped. That is one reason I hate riding an energy conservationist type of horse, they...

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I'll certainly chime in since I have been one of the posters on the other thread! 1. Contact and Connection: I agree mostly with KK that they are different, though can be inter-related. Contact to me means with the reins to the bit with straight line from the elbow to the corner of the mouth. The on...

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An interesting read http://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2014/12/a-fresh-look-at-the-training-scale-with-andrew-mclean/ I especially like the Baucher training goals/pyramid. Mountaineer, glad you had a positive experience for your show. Wished you could have been at your best for A Steiner, he is a grea...

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dressuer, beautiful picture. I do not feel that short reins always=heavy contact but I also feel that there is a misconception that the reins are absolutely necessary to ride dressage and they are not. I do know with dressage riders, especially competition based dressage riders, ride with shorter re...

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Chisamba yes this is a dressage board, but it is not a USDF/USEF dressage board. We all know dressage has been around way longer than showing has been around, otherwise we would not have the 4 ecoles. And this is a thread about goals and progress, not the 2nd level thread which is specific to showin...

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kande and Chisamba, I just do not agree with your thoughts on reins and that they are absolutely necessary in our training of dressage after a point. For me, dressage has always been about lightness and ease of movement and following/listening to our seat and weight aids more and more, while less an...

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Chisamba, no I was responding to kande's "leverage" of the front end and stringing the bow and direct leverage making it sound like the reason the horse comes up in the shoulders is from the contact or stringing the bow. IMO that is not the case or at least only a very small part of the tr...

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IMO the head and neck raise when the HQs lower from collection. If you try to ride the neck first you end up compressing the horse's spine which drops the chest down. Only through proper gymnastic exercises can the horse build the strength to sit behind and elevate the front. Those exercises include...

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Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers and it is good to see that others here knew of Mark and appreciated his teachings. Both he and his wife are deeply in my thoughts and prayers. The full details of the accident have not been made public yet so I am reluctant to air them here. Needless to sa...

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Yes Flight, I lost a great friend and my riding mentor. Mark had more knowledge than any other horseman or trainer I knew or was ever exposed to. His background was varied but the underlying theme of his work was proper gymnastics and development of each horse. I am lucky to have had the time I did ...

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Exactly Flight! Both to slipping the rein and to riding one handed! I watch videos like I shared to remind myself that riding well does not have to involve reins! I have cried all morning, I am struggling with the loss of Mark, what a huge hole his death will leave in my life and in so many others l...

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Reins really are not the issue as exhibited so well by this video https://www.facebook.com/manuelborba.veiga/videos/vb.100006473203741/2028071094085311/?type=2&theater I have a question for those of you posting on this thread: do you ever ride one handed? Riding one handed is a very good tool to...

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I am still not in a place in my head right now to go point to point with Linden, I've had devastating news that the trainer I work with sustained serious injuries yesterday while at a clinic that will probably end his life. I cannot imagine a world without Mark Russell in it. No it is not about too ...

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Wicky posting from my iPad or I would supply the link. Search Mark Russell Natural Dressage he has a web site.

I am having a hard time coming to accept this news. I had so much I still wanted to learn from Mark. I don't want to have to say goodbye to him.

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Wicky https://www.facebook.com/markandhela/?fref=nf Mark rode with Nuno Olivera in Portugal and brought those teachings here and has shared so much of his knowledge to many all over the US. Unfortunately not good news, Mark's injuries are so severe that they do not appear to be survivable. I am beyo...

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Linden your post talks of the horse determine the rein length and I am not talking about that at or nor am I talking about riding with an open hand so no you do not understand what I am saying. I really don't have time to go point by point but needless to say your idea of what I do is entirely not t...

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Linden you misunderstood what I mean by letting the rein slip. You should never ride with an open hand that is not what I mean by letting the reins slip. It is a deliberate action by me as a rider to slide the reins, not the horse taking the reins, to lengthen the neck of the horse so we do not ride...

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My trainer was in a bad accident today while working with a young horse at a clinic. He has a fractured neck and other possible injuries. Had to be life flighted to Boston. I am so scared for Mark, he is such special man and I have been privileged to learn from him.

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Yes, link is working and Wow!! fabulous work! Really showing good cadence in his trot and his canter and FCs look so good. Great job Flight! I do have a couple of questions: Is his name really dingaling? There has to be a story behind the name. Also what is his and your young horse's breeding? I hav...

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A good ranch bred QH would be much sounder individual. Having said that a good friend of mine and I went to look at a APHA horse for him, black and white not what he wanted at all. Turned out though even though only 6 months prior the APHA had been a stallion he was my friends perfect horse, smaller...

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I can't watch it for some reason!! Argh

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Flight yes I am very sure we are on quite similar paths! Where did your instructor train? The trainer I work with rode with Nuno Olivera in Portugal. Very detail oriented. When I saw the video you posted I

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demi my instructor has us slip the reins (why I use plain leather reins now) to not block the horse and keep our hands stable elbows at our sides unless we are following a bascule in a gait like canter and walk, then there will be some elbow movement allowing the bascule. But of course in collection...

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What I have seen causes the most issues with the need for collection is that so many riders compress the horse, shorten the neck which means the horse cannot collect correctly. To shorten the base the horse has to engage from the hind end, that leads to the elevation of the front end. What ends up h...

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Yeah for updates Chisamba! Love your girls. I also find that it is one thing to be able to do the individual parts of the tests and another to string it all together. Something I don't do very often and should. Rode my mare quick ride yesterday, was ok, could have been more umph in the trot. Big guy...

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I'll add a few! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=930276697011040&set=a.902969063075137.1073741827.100000861553573&type=3&theater me and my big beast last Aug first clinic in the double, then I had to back off a bit when I found out he had allergic rxn to pythium and ulcerative les...

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Cool!! Happy new horse! He looks very much like one of my boarders a Perch/TB mare. She is quite a wide load!

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I'm in! I have a clinic coming up the end of the month in SC with my trainer, so hauling to it and looking forward to the clinic. Big guy is doing well, though back slid a bit after being adjusted/acupunctured for some reason. Not sure if he was sore afterwards or what, but starting to get back into...

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Was a good day here, vet visit for IRAP for my 21 yr old Han X mare. She has been stalled for the last 10 months after foundering last June and came back pretty lame LH from her OCD lesions bilateral stifles (mild and have known about them for years, was sound before laminitis on oral supplement) th...

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He looks great!

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Rhianon, I am right there with you. I do see some people though that go above and beyond to be what I consider to be good people, those that are helpful to others, think of other beings besides themselves, just in general good people. That gives me hope when I see so many who don't care or who are o...

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See I don't think that way boots, I feel all (for the most part) deserve my respect unless otherwise proven that they do not. but I am southern born and bred, raised to wave at passerby's, hold the door for those who need it, say please and thank you and all the social niceties that can make a day r...

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I too feel killing the silver back was really the only option once the child was in the enclosure and in the immediate vicinity of the male gorilla. I hate that it had to happen that way but a 3-4 yr old child was in danger. I have no information on the enclosure or how attentive or not the mother w...

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I did and was a total mistake for me and my sensitive inner ear! Went off the coast of Oahu, HI and was seasick the entire time unless I sat very carefully in the "chair" looking at the horizon. To be fair the sea was a washing machine with not just swells but side to side waves, no way to...

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Hmm I think in some instances yes yet I know that is not the case in many instances. For example, (I am involved in rescue locally) just recently a pit bull puppy was brought into the local kill shelter https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1093860344005464.1073742139.162554320469409&type=3 ...

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I just keep posting regardless!! I don't start threads very often but do participate on multiple threads from vet forum to training forum to observation. Not so much on the political forum, even being an election year. Would love to participate on Olympic thread when it rolls around. Watching our ri...

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Excellent news! What a good girl Deneb! I like just hauling them off even if I don't ride, see how they handle the trips. I generally like doing this as a youngster, it does not always happen though. BTW the ASB g did not vet out for my friend, he had some changes in his right stifle, she had to pas...

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I agree Amity, it really depends on the horse as to whether or not cantering any length of time would help. I am trying to do more with my big guy but not just cantering, worked on CC through both short sides and got it on both leads. This is a big horse whose canter has been longer to develop but n...

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I have a pair of sticky seats with the silicon and they are fine to ride in, now getting off the leather couch not so easy!!

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Wow svv, so sorry about the string of bad luck! Old Kieffer, or any of the cut back saddles might work. I had a Frank Baines and a Kieffer (loved FB, hated Kieffer) for my high withers flat backed horses. Breeding is not for the faint of heart for sure. I have had quite a few over the years, some wi...

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I had first generation kindle until it crashed, I now read on a mini iPad and it works great. The only hard books I get are training related i.e. horse training and dog training books.

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What I see with all of the videos showing medium trot is compressed instead of truly collected horses. The bay horse really shows how compressed he is when he is so lateral in the walk. The grey horse is on his shoulders and not showing true medium trot. Medium and extended trot comes from a collect...

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Hey I have ridden for Axel Steiner, thought he was wonderful and spot on! Actually got a 9 for lengthening on my OTTB g under him, of course we also had some 4's! Not the most consistent of horses. Good luck mountaineer!! BTW mountaineer what a lovely horse you have and what a gorgeous place to ride...

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Ugh I hate it when things to to hell in a hand basket! Glad you both came out of the episode ok, so sorry it happened.

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kande have you ever lunged a horse with no side reins and have them "come on the bit"? That is self carriage at its best and yes it can happen when a horse is properly developed and in balance. That is why I like to lunge without side reins to see what I really have when working a horse on...

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kande I am talking about horses at freedom, no rider, you do not see them stretch out and down with their neck at the trot like is asked in the dressage tests. The only time I have seen it is with a stallion patrolling manure piles or when he snakes his head driving the horses. If they are at libert...

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