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There is something mysterious, sublime, superior, an absolute lightness and harmony with the horse that is promised in the equestrian literature but not clearly defined and apparently unreachable.
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Walking with the horse re-tunes us with reality, honesty, ethics, decency, the reason why we are born.
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In the face of the horse’s size and power, we have resorted to domination. We have developed riding techniques and training psychologies based on obedience and submission.
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Feeling is only a perception and to be useful, the perception needs to be translated in the rider’s mind with a sound understanding of the underlying biomechanics factors.
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When nature is perceived as a web, its vulnerability is obvious; if one thread of the web is pulled, the whole tapestry may unravel.
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“He chooses to remain by your side because he is not an enemy to be dominated but instead a partner willing to work with you.”
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The solution is not integrating new knowledge to old beliefs. The solution is questioning old beliefs in the light of new knowledge.
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Tensegrity, integrity, elastic energy, force transport, are the new words of the equestrian art.
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“I believe the true classical masters would embrace this information as a much better explanation of what they felt, but had only the language of their day available to them to use to explain.”
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The “aids” are just the vocabulary of a language. They are part of the language, but not the whole language.
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I remember a trainer telling me, “You cannot love the horses and win.”
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The thought of “liberating the shoulders’ is over exploited. Properly placed, the saddle does cover, without nuisance, the caudal part of the trapezius.
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Equine athletic training and riding techniques need to evolve from making the horse do it to understanding how the horse does it.
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We have the knowledge for a sophisticated dialogue but the practical application of new knowledge demands a fundamental shift.
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Horses are comfortable at a highly sophisticated level of perception. They are annoyed and often pushed to resistance and revolt when their senses are overloaded by the shifts of our body weight and other gestures.
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Elastic energy is the power and the spirit of the equestrian art.
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The system traps riders and horse owners into an artificial world where the value is winning at all cost.
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Looking at equine locomotion and performance in terms of dynamics verses kinematics deeply modifies riding and training principles.
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The principles of riding and training that created the problem cannot be used to resolve the problem. This is the paradigm shift that responsible riders and trainers, as well as horse owners, have to face.
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Concepts of stretching, relaxing and releasing muscles, are simplistic and even, in some instances damaging.
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