Author: Jean Luc Cornille

Elastic energy is the power and the spirit of the equestrian art.

The system traps riders and horse owners into an artificial world where the value is winning at all cost.

Looking at equine locomotion and performance in terms of dynamics verses kinematics deeply modifies riding and training principles.

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.

Chazot sees many of his species betrayed by their confidence in humans. “One major issue is genuine ignorance, which humans often label as ‘tradition’.”

Straightness enhancing speed responds to the same fundamental principles as straightness enhancing balance, control and collection.

The back epaxial muscles, which are the muscles situate on and around the upper half of the vertebrae as well as dorsal spines, create the “flexion”, “lifting’, “roundness”.

Riding is physics, energy, tensegrity, elastic energy, forces and leading the horse to mastery of forces is an intelligent journey.

Everybody believes they have a partnership with the horse but their partnership is nothing more than nice obedience.

Classic authors understood that greater upward forces were necessary for collected and more elevated gaits such as passage.

The horse will submit to gestures like a slave but his comfort zone is at the subtler level of energy created by nuances in muscles tone.

Schools of thoughts integrating new knowledge to old theories are setting up humans and equine athletes for failure.

“The disease is, therefore, considered to be reversible and may be alleviated by altering the load on the navicular bone.”

Leadership is not obedience to the rider’s aids but instead the capacity to analyze the horse’s difficulties.

When equestrian literature and equine science collide, we must follow the way of the horse.

The flashiest “image” is often not realistic, in horse training and in life.

Horses do not function through metaphors; they function through laws of physics and dynamics that were previously unknown but are now well explained.