Re: cured a lateral canter

On 2/28/06 11:05 AM, "lizzard woman" wrote:


I want knowledgeable people to tell me how common it is.


The people thus far in the thread who understand the biomechanics of the
lateral canter understand what you are talking about, the other side of the
coin is some people think they have seen a lateral canter and have not seen
it.

Una's description was the best so far. The reason the horse *uses* his body
to produce a lateral canter is the lack of back roundness, a trailing hip
joint, and the inability to make the front end work in unison with the back
end during the suspension stage of the canter. A horse who does this could
be miraculously cured in one lesson by a person who "puts the horse
together" and then rides with correct aids; this horse would be the horse
who was purely poorly ridden in the past.

The second horse who has been biomechanically incorrectly cantering might
not be able to arrest his lateral canter so easily because he has given his
body incorrect muscle mass, and has spasm in the areas he needs to use
cantering. This horse will need re-muscling in the areas he has been
flattening, and needs to produce correct muscles to canter correctly: he
needs a year or more to correct him.

Thirdly, a horse with a lateral canter might have poor conformation and his
frame dictates such a motion while cantering, you are not going to change
this beast.

There are three kinds of lateral canter, not one fits all sizes, and not one
is the one all of you have seen. You have each seen the differing canters I
have pointed out. The boink canter is another animal entirely and can be
biomechanically four beat, lateral, or disunited, or just a flat back with
legs flipping high keeping the three beats. This is another discussion.


Jody

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