“The horse is already plenty smart, it is our turn to think”
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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Author: Jean Luc Cornille
The web of life: How “magic” is understanding nature and the horse
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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Inspiration from tradition: The science of training horses in-hand
“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 Equestrian Art: It’s time to bring it into the 21st century
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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Subtlety in motion: Science brings equestrian art to new level
Tensegrity, integrity, elastic energy, force transport, are the new words of the equestrian art.
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From vision to science: The evolution of classic equitation
“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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Crossing the line to a better horse-rider partnership
The “aids” are just the vocabulary of a language. They are part of the language, but not the whole language.
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Can you love your horse and still be a winner?
I remember a trainer telling me, “You cannot love the horses and win.”
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Saddle reflocking: Be aware of what lies beneath
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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Horse training: We should know better, do better
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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Escaping the museum of classical equitation – for the sake of the horse
We have the knowledge for a sophisticated dialogue but the practical application of new knowledge demands a fundamental shift.
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How a high cantle and thigh blocks put your horse in an awkward position
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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Science and the essence of the equestrian arts
Elastic energy is the power and the spirit of the equestrian art.
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Natural ability can get horses only so far in the human world
The system traps riders and horse owners into an artificial world where the value is winning at all cost.
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Elastic fantastic: How horses get the spring in their step
Looking at equine locomotion and performance in terms of dynamics verses kinematics deeply modifies riding and training principles.
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“Whole horse” approach the key to preventing lameness
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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Stretch your imagination, not your horse
Concepts of stretching, relaxing and releasing muscles, are simplistic and even, in some instances damaging.
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From the horse’s mouth: Look out for my Umwelt
Chazot sees many of his species betrayed by their confidence in humans. “One major issue is genuine ignorance, which humans often label as ‘tradition’.”
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The road to straightness: A horseman’s journey
Straightness enhancing speed responds to the same fundamental principles as straightness enhancing balance, control and collection.
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“Lifting” the horse’s back: Another meaningless equestrian phrase
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”.
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