Kookaburra
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Sitter o läser lite i denna bok och funderar över en passage där han skriver såhär om början av hästens inskolning. Dvs, direkt efter att hästen fått ryttare på ryggen och ska börja ridas...
There are generally two types of horse. The first withholds its forces and is usually light on the hand. The other has no restraint at all and for the most part bears heavily upon the hand.
As for those who withhold by nature, they must be taken in a bold, extended trot, in order to limber their shoulders and haunches. With regard to the others which are by nature heavy on the hand or pull against the hand by poking the nose, their trot must be higher and shorter, to prepare them to collect themselves. Both types, however, should be kept in a steady and equal trot, without dragging the haunches, and the lesson must be sustained in the same vigour from beginning to end, without, however, being overly long.
These first lessons should have no design of training the mouth or the head: first the horse must become supple and acquire facility in turning easily in both directions; in this way the sensibility of the mouth is preserved. For that reason the bridoon is excellent in the first lessons, for it puts very little pressure upon the bars and none at all upon the chin, which is a very delicate part, in which resides, as the Duke of Newcastle says very well, the true sensitivity of the horse's mouth.
-Gueriniere, School of Horsemanship (1994) s.26
Funderar nu på detta att hästen bör övas i kortare form redan så tidigt. När menar han att man då ska börja ta ner formen för att få till lite lång o låg? Jag har inte läst hela boken så jag gissar att det eventuellt kommer att visa sig längre fram... Skulle dock vara kul om det är nån mer som nu sitter o läser den och som vill diskutera lite.... ?
Sitter o läser lite i denna bok och funderar över en passage där han skriver såhär om början av hästens inskolning. Dvs, direkt efter att hästen fått ryttare på ryggen och ska börja ridas...
There are generally two types of horse. The first withholds its forces and is usually light on the hand. The other has no restraint at all and for the most part bears heavily upon the hand.
As for those who withhold by nature, they must be taken in a bold, extended trot, in order to limber their shoulders and haunches. With regard to the others which are by nature heavy on the hand or pull against the hand by poking the nose, their trot must be higher and shorter, to prepare them to collect themselves. Both types, however, should be kept in a steady and equal trot, without dragging the haunches, and the lesson must be sustained in the same vigour from beginning to end, without, however, being overly long.
These first lessons should have no design of training the mouth or the head: first the horse must become supple and acquire facility in turning easily in both directions; in this way the sensibility of the mouth is preserved. For that reason the bridoon is excellent in the first lessons, for it puts very little pressure upon the bars and none at all upon the chin, which is a very delicate part, in which resides, as the Duke of Newcastle says very well, the true sensitivity of the horse's mouth.
-Gueriniere, School of Horsemanship (1994) s.26
Funderar nu på detta att hästen bör övas i kortare form redan så tidigt. När menar han att man då ska börja ta ner formen för att få till lite lång o låg? Jag har inte läst hela boken så jag gissar att det eventuellt kommer att visa sig längre fram... Skulle dock vara kul om det är nån mer som nu sitter o läser den och som vill diskutera lite.... ?