Re: Riding in Circles

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:10:00 -0400, "Lizzardwoman" <lizzardwomanRMOVE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Aunt Nasty" <ye_olde_muleskinner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:06lob3h3cpudjbdjb6n9g55bs3u8lj2k7m@xxxxxxxxxx
| On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:56:21 -0400, "Lizzardwoman" <lizzardwomanRMOVE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >"Aunt Nasty" <ye_olde_muleskinner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
| >| The point is that it's done from feel and connection.
| >
| >No argument. But no amount of correct feel and connection will overcome a
| >poor eye.
|
| So don't use your 'eye'.
|
| Use feel.
|
| Get it consistent and reliable, then make some guesses,
| then measure.

Do you use any visual clues at all to ride a circle any more?

Do you believe it'd be impossible to ride a circle without your eyes?

There are, of course, dressage riders who are blind, as there are
riders doing other disciplines sightlessly, including jumping.

From my work with a number of blind riders I know that they can
be aware of what they are doing and where from the use of their
other senses, such as pinpointing the music from an outdoor
speaker system for orientation or spoken words from others
located at certain points.

Can you ride an accurate 20-m circle blindfolded at this point?

You could, too, if you didn't assume the impossibility.

When you decide, needlessly, in advance that you can't do something,
your brain goes on vacation to Aruba and falls asleep on the beach.

You need to realize you can do something - without necessarily knowing
how you will go about it - for it to be possible for you at all.

Once you decide that you're going to do something - and you don't need
to have the details of your method figured out ahead of time - your brain
will be back from tropical paradise and get to work on it, and get it done.

People have different strengths, but it's important to use the strengths to
bolster other strengths in other areas, not swamp them into insignificance.

You are overly dependent on not only your eyesight, but on a hard focus
which is linear rather than spatial.

Once you can produce consistent arcs from feel, as I've mentioned, you
will be able to produce circles in the dark. I described a couple options
for calibration after you get the connection and consistency (the vector
in use with the rider's center of gravity is no different in a counterbend).


Are you familiar with the writings of Waldemar Seunig?
.

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