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kande50

irst step is to stop the 'alternate Fact' spinning. SHS and KAC and the like need to be called out every time they tell a big fat whopper of a lie and pretend it represents any reality any of us recognize. Problem is that we have no way to know which "facts" are true, partly true, or fals...

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I am past hope and I think more need to be at the 'Act' stage... working for candidates you believe in, getting voters to polls, and otherwise moving the elctoral process forwards where more participants, whether voters or candidates, arefully and compltely involved. What this boils down to is arro...

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The problem is that no one has any facts, so they're believing whatever they choose to believe. So for every argument anyone puts out there the "other side" has a different set of "facts" that support their beliefs.

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Maybe that is how Germany got Hitler... not enough people beating the drum enough. I don't believe that blabbering about it, or reading the blabber, is a productive use of time. It can be an enjoyable bonding experience among those who have the same beliefs, and likewise for those who like to debat...

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With all due respect, then how will you ever learn about or have an opportunity to ponder others' points of view? If you all talk and agree with one another, how can there be debate or discussion? I too, "manage my environment" by avoiding pro-Trump debaters. I get enough of it here and t...

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demi wrote:
I said I was going to start logging, and I did start...then I quit...then started...then quit. With Rocky back to work, I may soon be more motivated.

I was a short term exercise for me, because as soon as I changed my eating habits I didn't need to do it anymore.

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khall wrote:I would NOT put SRs on him in case he still got away, that is an accident waiting to happen.

What kinds of accidents are you envisioning? (I haven't used side reins for years, and have very little experience with them.)

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Xanthoria wrote:kande I am pretty sure his client base doesn’t bother themselves with such lowly things as yelp. They are Much Too Posh!

So maybe you were paying for the photo op at the snazzy farm rather than the lesson?

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Cute. I adore goats. They are the reason we can never have acreage. Then I would acquire goats, and subsequently end up divorced (the sound of goats bleating freaks my husband right out, nevermind their other adorable shenanigans). ., Like getting out and destroying the gardens, and climbing up on ...

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This just in: today (a week later) I got an email from GP jumper dude asking how my lesson was, and wanting to know if I wanted more. For an unrelated reason I'm not going to give him my unvarnished opinion of the lesson. I AM considering giving him a carefully lacquered version, purely for the sak...

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That said, you should know by now that the majority of posters on this forum support chiro/accupuncture and other alternative approaches. The majority that has weighed in, anyway. Which of course, is irrelevant when it comes to whether something works the way it's promoted, or not. When you put up ...

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Mystic oak you can read a transcript of the videos You have to actually also finish the video before it'll let you move on to the new section. So reading transcript option is there, but doesn't help speed you along if you have slow internet. I was hoping to cheat by reading and being done faster th...

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Srhorselady wrote:Mmmm she’s right side up on my screen. Is she upside down to everybody else?

Upside down on mine, but I just turned my laptop upside down to see her. Is that a cresty neck I see, or just mane?

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Well, if that's how it's perceived by the person you're trying to influence, then it is. Doesn't matter whether you think you are coming across that way or not. There's always going to be someone who misreads others' motivations, but IMO, that's their problem. If they're interested enough they can ...

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First you have to figure out how to make the photo small enough. I can't remember exactly what the cut off is, but I think they have to be less than 200KB? Then you use the full editor here and underneath it there are 2 tabs, "Options" and "Attachments". Click on the attachments ...

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Moutaineer wrote:I keep reading this as "hoovering." Can you train my horse to do this too, please, Kande?

Hoovering, isn't that when they vacuum up their food?

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Oh there are triggers, and his half brother who is 3 years older has spent a lot of time under pros and he spooks with them too, which made me realize how limited the "keep their attention" idea is. The whole problem with trying to force submission is that the fear is still there, which me...

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Got up at 4:30. DH ate at 5:30 and i had to refrain from eating. I wasn’t hunrgry but have the tendency to eat just because he’s eating and the sausage smells good. I have a tendency to do this too, as well as decide to have a snack to see if it'll help motivate me to get started on anything I don'...

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Asymmetry is something in my horse and I which we will always work on. I do not believe I can ever coast on my success. It will always be a tendency to manage in both of us. These are never rein issues, but finding a solution with the Sprial seat is key. It's about what side of the midline the hors...

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If I was in a barn with someone who wanted to experiment I'd schedule the app'ts for their horse, they could schedule for mine, and then we could evaluate our own horses without knowing when, or even if they were receiving treatments--although I expect the research has already been done.

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I've been avoiding this topic, but I really think I need to join you all before I slip into winter torpor. Now there's the where to start thing... Prioritize, maybe? Decide which you want the most and concentrate on that, and then if there's any motivation left over work on the others some, but wit...

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If toothpicks have the same placebo content then acupuncture does not work as advertised. Nobody is claiming the placebo effect isn't real. Acupuncturists claim it is real and not placebo. They are wrong. True, but patients don't care how acupuncturists market it as long as they feel like treatment...

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Agree and agree. But both getting the right horse, and knowing oneself, are not necessarily easy things to accomplish. It can take much time for some (most?) of us. That’s why, for me at least, I think it was important to learn how to enjoy and appreciate the journey. What a journey it’s been!! Am ...

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https://www.businessinsider.com/aacupuncture-is-useless-steven-novella-2016-5?utm_content=buffer8ea43&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-bi It has been shown to be just placebo. It works as well if you put the needles in the "wrong" places and even i...

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SI is the cornerstone of collection because it is like weight lifting. The horse must be strong to be able to bear more weight behind and take shorter, more articulated steps. I think that may be the part I've been missing (shorter). I get too focused on keeping everything the same (tempo, rhythm, ...

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Who rides in full SI? Never heard that one before. Full si as in true si, rather than in sf. Its about the inside leg and outside shoulder more than bending. Something else I was thinking about re: the stepping under of the inside hind. Why do we want the inside hind to step under more when the goa...

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Ryeissa wrote:
It's not passage-like.

Which is why it seems odd to me that it's called a passage-y trot.

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My first horse, an Arab mare did this, slow in the hind leg. She was from park horse lines, so they weren't selecting for the "carrying" hind end so much, more of a split in the back. . . . She had great freedom in the shoulder, she could look very pretty doing so. . . My horse has 2 Arab...

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Tsavo, I believe that it's genetic, but it can also be taught - particularly if you're not careful when you teach a horse to passage or add passagey steps into the trot. I think Ding was showing that in Flight's latest video, and I know personally of a lovely PRE that was taught early on to take pa...

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Yes, my new filly does this naturally. She just has springs in her legs and this is her equivalent of a jog albeit, head up and back dropped. When I push her forward from behind, the head comes f/d/o and you can see the circle of energy connect. Riding her forward enough when she's just starting US...

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[quote="Tsavo"]Lettered people say this administration is heading down the path to fascism. Germany didn't see it coming either[quote]. So many are aware of what's happening but either refuse to believe it, don't care, or can't stop it. I don't believe that the majority are ignorant of whe...

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It was really windy and a sign was blown over and Ding saw it happen out the corner of his eye and jammed the brakes on. I hate it when that happens. You go to all the trouble to get to the show and then the tent, or something, blows over and scares the crap out of your horse and ruins your test--a...

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I also think I was approaching it as fear when it wasn't. I just didn't feel good physically. In my case I knew it wasn't fear because I know what fear feels like. I was just tired, and the whole problem with getting old is that then we never know if fatigue is age or disease related. And now inexp...

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Me too because sometimes you just can't believe that a person won't do the right thing. I used to "assume" that people would do the right thing, but I am long over that now. Providers sometimes make the same mistakes the consumer does, by not asking enough questions. As in, what kind of l...

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The horse is too slow in the hind leg. It does not take a lot more energy to do this. What takes more energy is actually stepping under and carrying his/your weight. This avoids that, he's pushing out behind, not stepping under and carrying. This is why you're schooling those curved lines (in a str...

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Straight horses are sound horses, as are horses that get off the forehand and don't pound the front legs. Yet so many dressage horses break down due to back and hind end issues. In fact, hind suspensory fails seem to be a common problem in dressage horses. Don't know if it's true or not, but better...

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With regard to horse stiff sides being left or right sides, I attended a couple of Gerd Heuschmann clinics. He expressed a theory and he stressed it was just a theory based on observation that horse sidedness is genetic as is right/left handedness in humans. What he had noticed while doing clinics ...

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Philippe Karl has some good vids on this, and other stuff, too. I like his vids a lot because he's good at breaking it all down into small steps, and doesn't only show the best attempts with talented horses and riders, but instead demos it with a variety of horses and riders so you can see what it l...

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Perhaps also suggest auditing a lesson first to see if their "style" matches what you are looking for? As well as asking if the lesson would be taught by jumper rider or someone else. I totally understand your frustration and disappointment in the lesson, such as it was, that you got but ...

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I have visions of him turning into a giraffe underneath me as the judge stands up as we enter and then the looky loo moments whenever a grey horse comes into view. I found out last Sunday that he seems to be mesmerized by pintos as well. I just keep on filing all the information away for later use....

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In re club foot, that is very clearly to me a shoulder ROM issue and that ramifies to straightness. It may, or may not be primarily a shoulder issue, as whatever it is, it most certainly affects the way they place their hinds, which may very likely affect the way they use their back and who knows w...

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The passagey thing has got to be genes. Didn't he always do that? Look at the difference between the first pass coming down the long side and past the blue barrel, and the other passes. The first one is the example of the stiff trot. The rest are his normal trot. The stiff trot is fairly subtle on ...

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That's how I've always ridden out (give the horse the reins and learn to ride what he does). I always felt that over-controlling the horse to make it easier to stay in the saddle was a missed opportunity to develop a more secure seat.

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Yeah very much the passagey trot and not in a good way. Sting is not going forward and is using this half trot half passage to reduce the work load. I don't think this has anything to do with conserving energy, because I think it actually takes a lot more energy to do this than to just trot forward...

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I'm thinking he's just bracing a bit against the bend and so slows down and drops his back? I could be wrong. What happens in walk? That's my take on it, too. He doesn't do it in walk or canter because I've only ever rewarded him for it in trot. I liked it at one time because it was so up, and beca...

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First time they do that I give up on the lunging until I can find a place where they can't do it, because once they learn they can for some reason they will. Don't know why? Maybe they get dizzy? I know that things that didn't bother me when I was younger can be quite disorienting now (late 60's). A...

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It's always in the direction I want the horse to bend although exaggerated sometimes and of coures looking down too... Of course, as my focus is always on my hands and the horse, so naturally I look down. :-) Although I think that might be getting better as we've started moving forward more freely,...

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I really appreciated the vid, and what you’ve done with Rudy. The conformation shot was an eye opener! Some of us work with “less than ideal” conformations, temperaments, and conditions, and it is nice to see what can be done in those circumstances. Hoping that you will be riding again soon so we c...

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Same as Demi, plus my saddle has external knee rolls (BC Vinic X, picked because it fit the horse not for the external rolls) I cannot ride with short stirrups. I can ride with shorter stirrups, but that just allows me to brace my thighs against my giant thigh blocks and I don't want to do that so ...

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I also, (I suspect many lefties are like this) don't automatically know my left from my right so there's always a beat where I have to think when someone says "right rein!" which drives some instructors nuts--when I was a kid it was always "inside" or "outside" and I c...

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