Re: cured a lateral canter


"J. Z. M." <clayridgefarm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C029F733.2B9A0%clayridgefarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| 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.

Thank you!

sharon

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