Re: Great lesson today!

On 9/30/05 12:00 PM, "lizzard woman" wrote:

> The lesson was don't school on the buckle on the crazy notion that it gives
> the horse a break (which is why I was doing it). That was the context. I
> asked her if she ever schooled on the buckle to have a lighter schooling
> session and she said no. She said if she wants to give the horse a lighter
> workout, she'll cut the session short, ride for only 20 minutes or so,
> rather than change how she was schooling.

Dealing with semantics again. People have a point but you are discussing two
differing training techniques not what is *right* or *wrong*. Lighter
workout to your trainer means the horse is **IN work**, and not going to be
*set free* during her work session. Everyone else in the thread is talking
about setting the horse free of the contact to be relieved and relaxed at
the end of a session of training, or riding in a relaxed free state to ride
light with little to do in the ring. It is also a hunter jumper state of
mind. <more later>

If you decide to work on a loose rein you can. Everyone can. Now to the
mind set. H/J people by in large go on a longer, looser rein than dressage
people, even while working. It is part of their training. Now I am assuming
here, but since Sharon has a *serious* dressage rider as her trainer it is
part and partial to dressage to be on contact. Sharon is learning contact,
so her instructor does not want to funk up her horse by letting the horse
get two sets of instruction: the instructor's mind set, and Sharon's
la-di-dah loose rein. EVEN if both are correct the instructor is trying to
get Sharon and her horse on one plane and you guys are naturally better at
both planes. Departures at differing gates. One has to know how to board the
plane to Los Angeles before one can go on to Honolulu. (or Nirvana)


>
> Maybe there is legitimate disagreement on this point among dressage riders,
> I don't know. I'd be interested if you could point me to a classical
> dressage site that advocates "schooling" on the buckle and I'll ask my
> instructor about it. But I do know what she told me.

Don't worry about it, serious over achievers tend to go off whole cocked on
tangents with students. I fear your instructor has a bit of Nazi in her,
fair and good, but we all tend to la-di-fricking-dah around here before
going to work, and after work I might add just for the fun of it. We all
ride them either way with not a bit of trouble. Many can do this, your aids
will have to improve before you are "allowed" to do this with the élan we do
here at home. <I've decided to visit the 'we' world.>

Improve your hands by working on your lats and your trapeziums muscles. It
will do you a world of good. :)

Jody

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