Re: [IceHorses] Re: Classical Training in Iceland/Spanish Walk
what about the lippizanner "airs above ground". I bet i could try and teach jaspar to do that for the next twenty years and he would just stand there and gaze at me sardonically like "yeah right" yet I have seen him do it at least three times when putting the whomp on a new horse to show him he is herd leader out there. He executed it beautifully! I agree the spanish walk is a contrived thing. But so are a lot of tricks, but its fun to teach tricks, I enjoy it. I think some people really enjoy riding trail, some enjoy competing in the show ring, and I just love and enjoy the heck outa teaching new horses too young to ride things. and if you try and teach them something over and over they get bored and you get bored. I like to throw in a trick here and there. The jeffers photographers went gaga when stonewall stood on a pedestal with a red straw cowboy hat in his mouth like a big goofy dog. Thats not a natural thing for a horse to do but he sure loves it. gets a big twinkle in his eye. Now Jaspar, he does tricks like plod plod, groan ka i will d ittt t if you leave me alone but some horses? They love it. Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
Re: [IceHorses] Re: Classical Training in Iceland/Spanish Walk
> I personally think spanish walk is horrible no matter who, what > Nationality, what country, what type of breed of horse etc etc... > > its unfortunate that some of the Icelandic trainers are getting > mesmerized by this kind of stuff..taking after the Americans I > suppose. > > Its a gait that a horse Never does on its own > > Skye i know , those dern americans, the curse of horsekind. Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
Re: [IceHorses] Re: Classical Training in Iceland/Spanish Walk
>>> I personally think spanish walk is horrible no matter who, what >>> Nationality, >>> what country, what type of breed of horse etc etc... I agree that Spanish Walk is a pretty useless thing for a horse to know how to do. Same with levade like I saw Halldor trying to perform. Worse still though, is when these difficult moves are performed incorrectly, in the wrong form. They are difficult and potentially damaging to the horse even when done the right way. Very few horses have teh conformation to perform them correctly, even with prior conditioning and doing them without conditioning, or with the wrong conditioning seems riskier still. >>> its unfortunate that some of the Icelandic trainers are getting mesmerized >>> by this kind of stuff..taking after the Americans I suppose. I don't think it's an American thing at all. I haven't seen many Americans teaching either Spanish Walk nor levade, not in my area, and there's a strong dressage crowd here. I suppose that Spanish Walk is more common in the Spanish breeds, but I sure don't see many trying to teach it. Karen Thomas, NC
Re: [IceHorses] Re: Classical Training in Iceland/Spanish Walk
--- tolt674 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Meanwhile, we see pictures of Jolli's horrible example of Spanish Walk I personally think spanish walk is horrible no matter who, what Nationality, what country, what type of breed of horse etc etc... its unfortunate that some of the Icelandic trainers are getting mesmerized by this kind of stuff..taking after the Americans I suppose. Its a gait that a horse Never does on its own Skye tropicaltreks.com 808-443-6085
