Re: Great lesson today!


"Eileen Morgan" <egm1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:30:28 GMT, "lizzard woman"
| <kimosabeRMOVE@xxxxxxx> wrote:
|
|
| >I have found that though I can ride Pete around on the buckle all day, it
| >undermines the contact work so I don't do it anymore. When I first got
him,
| >I would do some practicing on the buckle but it was very
counterproductive
| >when I tried to pick up the contact. Even when I stretch his neck down,
he
| >has to follow and stay on the light contact. Horses really need the
| >consistency.
|
| I strongly disagree. All my horses know the difference between hacking
| and relaxing on the buckle and working, and for that matter they know
| the difference between schooling dressage, stadium, and cross country
| and change their frame, attitude, pace, and jumping style as
| appropriate. You have a huge hole in your riding/training program if
| you can't swap back and forth between a relaxed on the buckle moment
| and schooling.

Well I definitely couldn't do it 10 months ago. As to now, I wouldn't know
until I practiced it which I don't during schooling. I ride on the buckle
outside sometimes though and that doesn't seem to screw me up now.

| I think cross training is a Really Good Thing for horses--hacking on
| the buckle, going out bareback, playing around with trail obstacles,
| etc is good brain time for dressage and show ring horses.

See above.

| I would never, ever school my horse towards a specific sport every
| time I put a leg over. Can you say "sour" and "stale"?

See above.

| If you can't pick up and put down your contact smoothly, your horse
| might resist as you put him together. That's a you thing, not a him
| thing. And lest you point at your teacher-god as someone who never
| hacks and say 'thus, dressage divas don't do this' I will say that the
| Gold, Silver and Bronze medalist, her daughter who had a Bronze, and
| the FEI Judge I worked with the most all spent time hacking out their
| dressage horses, and tossed in some light jumping, to keep them fresh
| and fit mentally and physically.

I was referring to riding on the buckle while schooling dressage. Stretchy
circles are still done on contact. There was no reference to not riding
outside on the buckle, not smoothly giving a loose rein during breaks, not
smoothly picking the horse up again, etc.. all things I do practice.

sharon

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