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- From: deblev@nimoy.ipac.caltech.edu (Debbie Levine)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Re: dressage bits
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 01:50:40 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology
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- In article <1ebf4nINNcc4@rave.larc.nasa.gov> patty@alpha.larc.nasa.gov (Patty Howell) writes:
- > In same cases, we've progressed, in others we've declined, I think.
- > This is really nothing new....for instance, it is clear that by
- > de la Gueriniere's time, there were few, if any, riders who knew
- > how to "take a horse's balance in hand" *without* collection
- > like Newcastle did a century before.
-
- I must say, I'm beginning to gain a great respect for the variety of
- approaches I've been exposed to in the LA area! There was a French
- dressage trainer our barn worked with for a while, who was very
- big on exercises to help with balance on a long or loose rein,
- and I have become very aware of the importance of long & low
- work which is done with a good rhythym and balance. So, I think
- it isn't completely a forgotten art!
-
- However, you can only adjust the balance so far before you automatically
- get a change in frame, which, as it progresses, becomes collection.
- No?
-
- > [...] I just said curb. and the reason one hand
- > on the curb is a higher form of horsemanship is because only
- > the very best schooled horses can properly respond to a
- > single hand alone - the aids become even more subtle with
- > one hand.
-
- Hmmm... I would say that they aids become more subtle in the sense
- of being harder (for the horse) to distinguish, but it seems to
- me that a double bridle used with both hands (and four if we
- could get 'em :-) ) would be capable of more shades of meaning.
-
- How is a bearing rein used in classical dressage correctly? How
- does its effects differ from the more commonly used rein aids?
-
- > [...]Balance can be controlled by the hand alone, while frame cannot.
-
- I think you meant this the other way around!
-
- By the way, I'm really enjoying this discussion!
-
- Debbie
- deblev@ipac.caltech.edu
-