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by Tsavo
Sun Jul 30, 2017 1:53 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

And I am not saying there is no effort for elite riders. I think their minds are going a mile a minute assessing each second of work. I am saying my observation of a GP trainer working day in and day out for several years is that it appears physically less taxing to ride GP compared to say rehabbin...
by Tsavo
Sun Jul 30, 2017 1:21 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

Since this is a perspiration/progress thread, I'll just say that yesterday's ride was so disheartening that I don't even want to get on him again. I feel like a total beginner riding a green horse. I am sorry to hear this. I have an older horse also and I have learned to manage my expectations. It ...
by Tsavo
Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:34 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

And I am not saying there is no effort for elite riders. I think their minds are going a mile a minute assessing each second of work. I am saying my observation of a GP trainer working day in and day out for several years is that it appears physically less taxing to ride GP compared to say rehabbing...
by Tsavo
Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:26 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

Well, in one of her articles or books, M. Wanless says that elite riders are doing things they are not conscious of and actually deny doing. So is it possible they are using mostly anatomy tricks without knowing it. That may be why you are skeptical of this possibility. Anyone who tries to balance o...
by Tsavo
Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:05 pm
Forum: Rider health and fitness
Topic: Anyone try Yoga?
Replies: 15
Views: 14216

Re: Anyone try Yoga?

I think Yoga could be a bit tame after a while if you are looking for that intense workout. I've never been interested in gym/personal trainers etc, but I've been once to the physio (have more sessions booked) for this stupid ACL reconstruction and now started to realise the value of working with s...
by Tsavo
Sat Jul 29, 2017 10:59 pm
Forum: Rider health and fitness
Topic: Anyone try Yoga?
Replies: 15
Views: 14216

Re: Anyone try Yoga?

I recently took two classes of combined flow and yin(?). The flow was stretching and planking and the yin was stretch positions held for several minutes each. I liked both but they did not seem to move any needle compared to what I am doing with my personal trainer. For example, I am almost always p...
by Tsavo
Sat Jul 29, 2017 1:55 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

For me at this point, I am pretty sure I am not being held back by any lack of strength or fitness. It is now "just" (lack of) tact and timing holding me back. LOL. I can't prove that but that is my sense.
by Tsavo
Sat Jul 29, 2017 1:48 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

MC, I agree with that Boldt quote although we should remember it might be his naturally stiff male core and conveniently configured male pelvis that is talking there. I agree with you that it takes some strength to sit against the horse in picking up the front end or HHing or avoiding being pulled o...
by Tsavo
Sat Jul 29, 2017 12:56 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

I disagree even with elite riders if they say riding is a very demanding/physical sport (assuming you are in shape). Compared to my gym workouts which I choose to take to the edge of exhaustion for other health reasons, I told my trainer I can't even count riding as exercise even though I ride 5 da...
by Tsavo
Sat Jul 29, 2017 12:20 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

It was only after I cut back on the lessons and had to work on my own more that I was able to teach myself how to ride and train. And it was only when I just had me talking to myself that I was able to improve my mental focus. That was as big a hurdle as the physical stuff. FOCUS. Of course I neede...
by Tsavo
Sat Jul 29, 2017 11:58 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

With respect to the shoulders being back (and down), if one has lordosis and a dowager hump like me, it is counter-productive; just hollows the back more. I agree with this. Lordosis is a very big impediment to correctly using the lower back and anything you can do to be able to flatten the lower b...
by Tsavo
Sat Jul 29, 2017 3:50 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

I also agree with the comments about riding versus training. I have ridden upper level movements on upper level horses and that was fun. But the real fun for me was taking my horse who was not trained properly and finally teaching him and me to get him correctly in the bridle and the muscling proves...
by Tsavo
Sat Jul 29, 2017 3:40 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread
Replies: 346
Views: 173418

Re: July/August Perspiration and Progress Thread

This thread is chock full of interesting comments. I just want to add another perspective on the balance - position issue... two observations: 1. it took about 2 years in the gym working on the muscles to pull my shoulder blades back and down to the point where that is now my default, and 2. while d...
by Tsavo
Mon Jul 24, 2017 12:16 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: The "falling down" neck / neck like a waterfall
Replies: 19
Views: 15486

Re: The "falling down" neck / neck like a waterfall

I think the phrase is like draw reins... the people who already know how to lengthen the neck and raise the withers without throwing the horse on the forehand don't need the phrase. And people who don't know how to do those things probably shouldn't be keying into the phase because it is fraught wit...
by Tsavo
Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:12 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: The "falling down" neck / neck like a waterfall
Replies: 19
Views: 15486

Re: The "falling down" neck / neck like a waterfall

How do you address it? I think it is just another way to say if the back is up or dropped until the horse is strong enough to keep the back/withers and the neck up. I think it can be misunderstood and people might be throwing the horse on the forehand. Or it could be another way to say the horse is ...
by Tsavo
Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:26 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Connection or Lightness: bit choice
Replies: 23
Views: 18629

Re: Connection or Lightness: bit choice

Having gone through periods with my horse that match both cases and learned to fix it (with help), I would say either one. I would further say if you really want to learn you should use both bits so that you can train a horse that is too light to take appropriate contact and HH a horse off the hand ...
by Tsavo
Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:21 pm
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: horse massage book/video
Replies: 34
Views: 22821

Re: horse massage book/video

I have wondered why expert riders don't tend to do ground work for limbering up. I think it is a combination of not having time (having to train so many horses each day) and that they know how to warm up and ride such that it completely fills in for any stretching. Dressage Today has some of this wo...
by Tsavo
Sat Jul 01, 2017 6:50 pm
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: Anyone Done Much Research on (human) Multivitamins?
Replies: 9
Views: 7966

Re: Anyone Done Much Research on (human) Multivitamins?

I have been told that if you are eating a reasonable diet, you don't need vitamins nor will they be incorporated. Only in the case of a proven deficiency would vitamin supplementation be advisable or effective. I am a vegan and have been for about 2 years. I take B12 pills occasionally but I am not ...
by Tsavo
Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:10 am
Forum: The Observation Lounge/ Cookbook Forum even Hot Topics
Topic: Difference between a hot flash and just sweating?
Replies: 16
Views: 13592

Re: Difference between a hot flash and just sweating?

I think hot flashes associated with menopause come frequently are become identifiable as such. They follow a pattern in type in my experience.
by Tsavo
Sat Jun 10, 2017 4:15 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Insights from Jeremy Steinberg Clinic
Replies: 33
Views: 20258

Re: Insights from Jeremy Steinberg Clinic

The other thing is walk work. I am no Olympic rider yet I have been taught how to do walk work correctly and use it often. For people who want to know what correct collected walk feels like they should train on downhills. My aged horse will ball up (engage) and sink way into his hind joints and hold...
by Tsavo
Sat Jun 10, 2017 4:08 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Insights from Jeremy Steinberg Clinic
Replies: 33
Views: 20258

Re: Insights from Jeremy Steinberg Clinic

First I am surprised to hear PB does not separate the aids and would not to hands alone but do leg simultaneously. I think of him as French influenced but I don't really know that. Second, I think there is more than one right answer for some of these issues and that which right answer it will be is ...
by Tsavo
Fri Jun 02, 2017 1:42 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: How much arena work?
Replies: 37
Views: 24527

Re: How much arena work?

I tried to post pics of my indoor and it says "file too large". Everytime I try to post a pic here, it says that. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Well that's because your indoor is probably at least 60,000 square feet! It is too large. LOL In addition to the other comments, make sure it...
by Tsavo
Fri Jun 02, 2017 4:14 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: How much arena work?
Replies: 37
Views: 24527

Re: How much arena work?

I ride usually 5 days a week (the other two I go to the gym). Not all weeks but most weeks. I start every ride, arena or not, doing LARGE bounding walk on the trails and hills. I will do about 2 pure arena days a week. Other days I do the walk and trot work in the ring and then canter some hills. Ot...
by Tsavo
Tue May 30, 2017 11:58 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

Uta Graf is PERFECT.
by Tsavo
Tue May 30, 2017 1:41 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

In my gym work, I have noted that the key issue in the balance moves is to be able to keep the shoulder blades back and down. I think the way this effects an increase in balancing ability is this engages deep core muscles that otherwise are hard to consciously engage. I think absent gym work, it is ...
by Tsavo
Tue May 30, 2017 1:31 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

Nobody would describe correct contact purely as "pressure" just like a handshake does not connote "pressure".
by Tsavo
Tue May 30, 2017 1:18 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

It's like peristalsis with the horse and hand constantly moving forward together.
by Tsavo
Tue May 30, 2017 1:00 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

What you might be missing is that the horse creates the contact that the rider filters. I think you are assuming it is the other way around. One person cannot achieve a correct handshake and in riding the horse must initiate. Another one of the million things that doesn't reduce to words is that it ...
by Tsavo
Tue May 30, 2017 12:50 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

The auto-release comment just evoked in me the feeling of forward hand following the contact. Everything... hand, contact, horse, energy is going forward. No sense of backward in anything involved. That is what I strive for. I don't get that vibe looking at pictures with hands in laps though I total...
by Tsavo
Tue May 30, 2017 11:44 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

"Short reins win medals." Upthread, galopp said something about similarity to automatic releases in jumping. I thought that was a genius comment. For me, the more forward my hand in physical space, the more I push my hand forward forward and the less chance of backward hand. It is counter-...
by Tsavo
Tue May 30, 2017 3:28 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

This one shows an almost vertical upper arm...

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by Tsavo
Tue May 30, 2017 3:27 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

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by Tsavo
Tue May 30, 2017 1:15 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

Wow! I don't ride with my hands in my lap but if I ever do I will REFUSE to get called on it and just cite to deKunffy!!!
by Tsavo
Mon May 29, 2017 7:49 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

I cannot ride with my shoulders back and down as they should be. I have lordorsis, rounded shoulders, and a bit of a dowager hump and to force that position puts me too arched in the back. I agree that lordosis is a big issue in being able to use your lower back for so many things in dressage. But ...
by Tsavo
Mon May 29, 2017 6:05 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

I agree that correct connection requires the ability to bring the shoulder blades back and down. This is one of the most counter-intuitive aspects of a sport that is rife with counter-intuitiveness. When I started working out with a personal trainer at a gym, I told him I want to work on things that...
by Tsavo
Mon May 29, 2017 3:40 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

Most of the time an instructor says "shorten your reins" it is because the student has not maintained a connection, and almost always the rider shortens the reins but lengthens the arms (takes the upper arm away from the trunk forward), and that changes nothing. I think this is a touch to...
by Tsavo
Sun May 28, 2017 1:12 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Potpourri
Replies: 9
Views: 7545

Re: Potpourri

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by Tsavo
Sun May 28, 2017 12:20 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Potpourri
Replies: 9
Views: 7545

Re: Potpourri

MC thanks for the feedback and ESPECIALLY so much for the reassurance on the lump!!! :D
by Tsavo
Sat May 27, 2017 8:48 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

Again one handed riding is much like putting a drape in the rein or uberstreichen. It is a test of the training of the horse and a test of the effectiveness of the riders aids. Uberstreichen tests self carriage or having the horse on the outside rein. What does one handed on contact riding test? I ...
by Tsavo
Sat May 27, 2017 8:27 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Potpourri
Replies: 9
Views: 7545

Potpourri

1. I. Klimke states in a recent DT that she only walks on the hills and only canters on flat good footing. So people doing trot and canter on hills seem to be wildly overdoing it, yes? 2. I. Werth, in a recent article in DT, had Otts and Lucky Strike do a tiny trot because he was too extravagant too...
by Tsavo
Sat May 27, 2017 7:59 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

I think the example of western riding is proof that correct contact is probably harder to master than riding from the seat/legs. I agree with that. Correct contact is the only way to lengthen the neck without dumping the horse on the forehand or posing as far as I know.
by Tsavo
Sun May 21, 2017 2:22 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: Reins and contact
Replies: 140
Views: 73719

Re: Reins and contact

MC wrote: "I was thinking about asking our mod the rules on this, as I have found a video of someone highly respected that is pretty horrendous. It's just very poor and rough riding and I think it should be shared before anyone pays money to ride with this person. Does anyone here want to see s...
by Tsavo
Thu May 11, 2017 8:38 pm
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: To shoe or not to shoe
Replies: 23
Views: 16329

Re: To shoe or not to shoe

My farrier often mentions using Keretex. I use it occasionally. I have used the putty to plug the hole after that last abscess healed so it would stay clean. I don't know if I could have recovered that foot as quickly if he was shod and didn't have the putty. That was December and the hole is still ...
by Tsavo
Sat May 06, 2017 11:43 pm
Forum: Veterinary, Nutrition, Grooming & Farrier Questions
Topic: To shoe or not to shoe
Replies: 23
Views: 16329

Re: To shoe or not to shoe

I pulled my horse's hind shoes to let an abscess drain and never put them back on. I can't see putting a shoe on in this case unless you need a pad but then that might obstruct access to the abscess. MC has seen edema up the leg but I have not and I wonder if you are dealing with something more than...
by Tsavo
Fri May 05, 2017 5:53 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: The club foot argument.
Replies: 118
Views: 64067

Re: The club foot argument.

I guess I am saying that we can't assume my horse, muted as his shoulder unevenness is, is the end of the range. In fact it would be unlikely. That means there are club-footed horses with LESS of a mismatch and some at the point where you can't notice perhaps, in work or out. Add in correct work and...
by Tsavo
Fri May 05, 2017 2:15 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: The club foot argument.
Replies: 118
Views: 64067

Re: The club foot argument.

Horse's who are ridden correctly and do not have the one sided grazing stance will have matching shoulders. Really? I've read many saddle fitting articles and fitters say that generally they find shoulder asymmetry and it's usually a left shoulder larger. I suppose it may make sense to conclude tha...
by Tsavo
Fri May 05, 2017 2:13 pm
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: The club foot argument.
Replies: 118
Views: 64067

Re: The club foot argument.

But as long as the horse continues to graze with a one sided stance there will always be a problem with sidedness. They spend way more time grazing than in work, so those forces will continue to form the horse. I work out in the gym about half as many hours a week as this horse works and my body is...
by Tsavo
Fri May 05, 2017 11:55 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: The club foot argument.
Replies: 118
Views: 64067

Re: The club foot argument.

khall wrote:Yes, hi/lo and club foot development are related. Just hi/lo is just a less form of club foot.


I am tempted to ask how you know this but I will not.
by Tsavo
Fri May 05, 2017 11:54 am
Forum: Dressage Training
Topic: The club foot argument.
Replies: 118
Views: 64067

Re: The club foot argument.

I don't think we agree on what is evidence. "Holistic" viewpoints are not compatible with evidence-based methods. Also I don't think you appreciate the magnitude of complexity of issues like this. That's why I introduced the scoliosis example which has parallels and especially goes to show...

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