£220 for a girth you've got to be kidding me?
Yes cards on table am a complete cynic but none the less as my lovely saddler has them to try thought I'd see what the hype is about.
Day 0 Tuesday 6th August 20:30 sand/rubber Fairfax
So the potential confounding factors
recent physio (Mon)
recent saddle adjustment (30 minutes previously!)
sand/rubber school (usually ride in other school)
riding in evening (usually ride am) - so not been in overnight, had not run out of hay
All I could say is WOW the walk was huge and he was really stretching, saddle adjustment felt great too
Day 1 Wednesday 7th August 08:00 Fibresand Usual girth
So felt better than he had been feeling before physio/saddler more active walking out than I had been getting, less stretch down than last night but normal.
Day 2 Thursday 8th August 08:30 Fibresand Fairfax
Felt as he did yesterday in normal girth :-(
Day 3 Friday 9th August 08:00 Fibresand Fairfax
Felt as he did yesterday
Day 4 Saturday 10th August 09:00 Fibresand Fairfax
Felt as he did yesterday
Day 5 Sunday 11th August 14:00 Fibresand Fairfax
Felt as he did yesterday
Day 8 Wednesday 14th August 08:00 Fibresand Fairfax
Felt as he did Sunday
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Friday, 2 August 2013
Sunday, 28 July 2013
Sunday Afternoon Q & A At Dovecot Stables Charles De Kunffy And Gerd Heuschmann
GH Bitless bridle does not communicate with TMJ and jaw, contact in bitless is to nose and poll, so riding in a bitless is different contact to bitted.
GH Lunging for young horse is about head control and getting used to handler; otherwise GH goes to ridden work asap.
GH Would ride 3 yo three times a week, 4 yo four.
GH 99.9% of time now lunges without side reins, strident dislike of Pessoa
GH does NOT like treeless saddle.
GH most horses shoulders are not when viewed from top symmetrical, right shoulder usually 2" - 3" further forward.
CdeK always yield inside rein in shoulder in
CdeK How to correct BTV in medium trot?
Overflexion (BTV) needs to be resolved before the nedium trot, start at the beginning every day every ride.
Overflexion is a symptom the solution is behind
GH Lunging for young horse is about head control and getting used to handler; otherwise GH goes to ridden work asap.
GH Would ride 3 yo three times a week, 4 yo four.
GH 99.9% of time now lunges without side reins, strident dislike of Pessoa
GH does NOT like treeless saddle.
GH most horses shoulders are not when viewed from top symmetrical, right shoulder usually 2" - 3" further forward.
CdeK always yield inside rein in shoulder in
CdeK How to correct BTV in medium trot?
Overflexion (BTV) needs to be resolved before the nedium trot, start at the beginning every day every ride.
Overflexion is a symptom the solution is behind
- Slow
- Abruptly give rein
- Drive
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Saturday And Sunday Afternoon Lessons At Dovecot Stables Charles De Kunffy And Gerd Heuschmann
Saturday
13:00 lesson
To correct btv
1. Slow down
2. Abruptly yield reins
3. Drive
C de K uses both legs to aid for canter.
13:30 lesson
Had both riders leaning back to improve their seats and that was pretty much their lesson.
14:00 lesson Had both riders leaning back to improve their seats and that was pretty much the lesson for one rider, the other he had doing SI
14:30 lesson
Had one rider lean back
15:00 lesson
Had one rider lean back and that was their lesson, other horse was more advanced and very nicely trained / ridden but he had both doing same exercises with other rider struggling.
Sunday
13:30 lesson
Stopped rider following nod of head in walk with her lower arm and had her move her torso to follow.
14:00 lesson
Lovely PRE had her doing various exercises very insistent she only yield for four steps
14:30
lesson with GH Stretch every 15 minutes
15:00 lesson
The advanced rider from 15:00 yesterday had her doing school canter on her seat
From what I saw over the two days CdeK is much better with the trained rider who needs refinement he is to my mind unpleasantly sarcastic to those he has to say "close fingers" to more than once or twice from his talk he thinks it is lack of rider discipline or can't be assed.
He seems to have one correction for the seat and that is lean back, he is insistent on vertical upper arm by sides at all times and use the torso to yield left or right and to follow the movement in walk.
13:00 lesson
To correct btv
1. Slow down
2. Abruptly yield reins
3. Drive
C de K uses both legs to aid for canter.
13:30 lesson
Had both riders leaning back to improve their seats and that was pretty much their lesson.
14:00 lesson Had both riders leaning back to improve their seats and that was pretty much the lesson for one rider, the other he had doing SI
14:30 lesson
Had one rider lean back
15:00 lesson
Had one rider lean back and that was their lesson, other horse was more advanced and very nicely trained / ridden but he had both doing same exercises with other rider struggling.
Sunday
13:30 lesson
Stopped rider following nod of head in walk with her lower arm and had her move her torso to follow.
14:00 lesson
Lovely PRE had her doing various exercises very insistent she only yield for four steps
14:30
lesson with GH Stretch every 15 minutes
15:00 lesson
The advanced rider from 15:00 yesterday had her doing school canter on her seat
From what I saw over the two days CdeK is much better with the trained rider who needs refinement he is to my mind unpleasantly sarcastic to those he has to say "close fingers" to more than once or twice from his talk he thinks it is lack of rider discipline or can't be assed.
He seems to have one correction for the seat and that is lean back, he is insistent on vertical upper arm by sides at all times and use the torso to yield left or right and to follow the movement in walk.
Labels:
Clinics and demos
Monday, 22 July 2013
Charles de Kunffy and Gerd Heuschmann Sunday morning
Charles de Kunffy - training as therapy for horses
Always alternate
1/ Long <-------> short frame
2/ Long <-------> short strides
3/ Bending / straightness
You can always do four changes of something on a 20m circle
Hegel Dialectic
Wiki link here
C de K described it as
OBSERVE ============================= ANTHESIS
SYNTHESIS
Observe is the existing reality
Synthesis the reality we wish to achieve
Anthesis the flip (bad) side
Riding is surfing with your pelvis
Focus on task in hand but do not compromise future
Make an ally of your horse
Duty ahead of mood
Duty versus inclination
Do not punish for perceived wrongdoing
Gerd Heuschmann - True lameness or bridle lameness?
We as riders create a problem but then 'fight' the symptoms rather than addressing the problem
Preserve the natural gaits
A young horse should have a long neck and hanging nose
Stiffen the back and you stiffen the hindquarters then the only joint free to flex is the pastern and fetlock joints so the suspensory end up taking too much load and you then get suspensory issues.
The swinging back is where riding starts
Kissing spines GH has seen > 1 unbacked horse with impinging dorsal processes so not solely caused by riding. Possibly we are breeding horses with narrower spaces, however impinging dorsal processes rarely the primary cause of lameness.
95% of 'back problems' are rider related, how can we as vets ignore the influence of 80 kg of rider on the horse's back?
Natural crookedness is intercostals and deep abdominals less inclined to stretch on one side, 2007 gene discovered in humans for handedness, similar in horses? Thus a horse is unwilling to stretch his stiff side
Always alternate
1/ Long <-------> short frame
2/ Long <-------> short strides
3/ Bending / straightness
You can always do four changes of something on a 20m circle
Hegel Dialectic
Wiki link here
C de K described it as
OBSERVE ============================= ANTHESIS
SYNTHESIS
Observe is the existing reality
Synthesis the reality we wish to achieve
Anthesis the flip (bad) side
Riding is surfing with your pelvis
- Leg energises
- Seat modifies
- Rein verifies
Focus on task in hand but do not compromise future
Make an ally of your horse
Duty ahead of mood
Duty versus inclination
Do not punish for perceived wrongdoing
Gerd Heuschmann - True lameness or bridle lameness?
We as riders create a problem but then 'fight' the symptoms rather than addressing the problem
Preserve the natural gaits
A young horse should have a long neck and hanging nose
Stiffen the back and you stiffen the hindquarters then the only joint free to flex is the pastern and fetlock joints so the suspensory end up taking too much load and you then get suspensory issues.
The swinging back is where riding starts
Kissing spines GH has seen > 1 unbacked horse with impinging dorsal processes so not solely caused by riding. Possibly we are breeding horses with narrower spaces, however impinging dorsal processes rarely the primary cause of lameness.
95% of 'back problems' are rider related, how can we as vets ignore the influence of 80 kg of rider on the horse's back?
Natural crookedness is intercostals and deep abdominals less inclined to stretch on one side, 2007 gene discovered in humans for handedness, similar in horses? Thus a horse is unwilling to stretch his stiff side
Labels:
Clinics and demos
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