RE: [IceHorses] What Gait / Elephant

2008-01-30 Thread Karen Thomas
>> I thought maybe stepping pace, but again, I was expecting pace. >>> A rack can look like a stepping pace if you are looking at the "pick up" of the feet. In the rack, each foot sets down separately, even timing; but the timing of the pick up is lateral; they are moving, picking up, more close

Re: [IceHorses] What Gait / Elephant

2008-01-30 Thread Nancy Sturm
> > In the rack, each foot sets down separately, even timing; but the timing > of > the pick up is lateral; they are moving, picking up, more closely together > in time. I think part of my struggle with identifying photos of gait is that my experience of gait is primarily from riding and that w

Re: [IceHorses] What Gait / Elephant

2008-01-29 Thread Judy Ryder
>> I thought maybe stepping pace, but again, I was expecting pace. For some time, there has been the unanswered question: Do elephants run? The definition of "run" being that the subject catches air time. Elephants don't actually propel their bodies in an upward vector when moving fast, so

Re: [IceHorses] What Gait / Elephant

2008-01-29 Thread Nancy Sturm
> I swear > it looks like he has all support on a single foot a couple of times. > Surely > not...? I sort of anticipated pace, but that's not what I THINK I saw. I thought maybe stepping pace, but again, I was expecting pace. Nancy

Re: [IceHorses] What Gait / Elephant

2008-01-29 Thread Judy Ryder
http://iceryder.net/videogaitelephant.html > for my old, slow eyes, but I swear it looked like he was racking. I swear > it looks like he has all support on a single foot a couple of times. > Surely > not...? I sort of anticipated pace, but that's not what I THINK I saw. Yes, right; it's a ra

Re: [IceHorses] What Gait / Elephant

2008-01-29 Thread Karen Thomas
>>>The first part is a walk. second part? He's hauling it, that's for sure. Ok, he's not on the screen long enough for my old, slow eyes, but I swear it looked like he was racking. I swear it looks like he has all support on a single foot a couple of times. Surely not...? I sort of antici

Re: [IceHorses] What Gait / Elephant

2008-01-29 Thread Judy Ryder
> http://iceryder.net/videogaitelephant.html > > Slo-mo included. The first part is a walk. second part? Judy http://iceryder.net http://clickryder.com

[IceHorses] What Gait / Elephant

2008-01-28 Thread Judy Ryder
http://iceryder.net/videogaitelephant.html Slo-mo included. Judy http://iceryder.net http://clickryder.com