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Tsavo

The warm up is a time to take stock and to use the pyramid as a guide to know when you can start work. It is finding and getting to the edge so that you can solidify and advance. I think lack of appropriate use of the warm up can hold people back.

Forward is at the base of the pyramid for a reason.

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Tsavo

Here is my concern, however. Okay, so if we go to a show...and someone is watching...will I get self-conscious of our slug bug pony trot antics and get tense and over push? I guess I'm worried I might feel judged and get tight and blow the entire thing. I mean I can tell myself all day not to care ...

Tsavo

I have noticed plenty of people buy a young horse and keep them in full training year after year. They take lessons and the trainer trains the horse and keeps it ahead of the rider/owner. I have not crunched the numbers but I suspect there is a point fairly early on where it must be cheaper to buy a...

Tsavo

I don't know about that but I think it's funny how Grant had a horse named "Jeff Davis." LOL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_h ... _Civil_War

Tsavo

My horse has had it put on her twice. The first time was the 2nd trip to the vet clinic when her lameness did not improve with stall rest, wrapping, previcox, then hand walking. It was determined thru the LL and a nerve block and other diagnostic tests that she was worse than originally detected by...

Tsavo

Diagnosing and treating an animal in exchange for compensation (remuneration) constitutes practicing veterinary medicine without a license. Btw, so does the administration of a "legend" drug (one labelled for veterinary use only or one that requires a veterinary license to purchase) to an...

Tsavo

I erased criticism of GH to avoid derailing the thread however i consider the pictures at this link evidence of hypocrisy https://www.dressur-studien.de/gerd-heuschmann-reitet-korrekturpferd/ Heuschmann cannot possibly claim he is walking the talk. I seriously doubt he is claiming that given pictur...

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(Deleted side discussion of walking the talk and whether that matters.)

Tsavo

Lots of good ideas in this thread. Here are the things that I did to get large walk... 1. Stop starving my horse to diet him. Even though he is a bit overweight, I feed him calories so that he can work. My choice seems to be thin horse with no energy or overweight with energy. I pick the latter. I t...

Tsavo

I had to look up school trot. Here is what Sustainable Dressage says is school trot... The Hindlegs Take the Weight off the Frontlegs How that happens in piaffe is relatively simple to see. The horse moves his hindlegs in under the body, bend all the joints to lower the quarters to get it more under...

Tsavo

what is a straight horse. we talk always about making a horse straight. the simple definition is a horse that carries itself equally on all four legs. people make all these complicated explanations about slightly shoulder in, which legs should be parallel, dressage straight versus straight, its rea...

Tsavo

Rosie B wrote:Just curious Tsavo - did you find that article on Pinterest? That's where I found both those articles I mentioned above. There's a ton of great stuff on Pinterest these days.

Pretty sure I read it in DT.

Tsavo

Rosie that sounds like our warm up except at some point he is loose enough and we go forward into working trot from the small trot. I don't push him and he doesn't hang back at that point.

I recently read about some top trainer doing this. Might have been H. Schmidt. Yes I think so.

Tsavo

Sorry to hear that Chisamba! I went thru that as a child... on Christmas day.

Tsavo

Check out these asshats. Look at the horses' eyes.

Tsavo

Chancellor wrote:Sure there is a counter argument. Rollkur is a valid training method.

LOL!!!

Tsavo

Maybe many of these statues can be removed on this basis and not have to trigger racists. There is no counterargument. LOL

Tsavo

I passed this on to the rider and watched this horse today. The rider was holding two whips and that seemed to be a little better. I don't think the horse was reacting correctly yet but I think they will get there.

Tsavo

The handler (on the ground) starts with work in hand (i.e. a mobile turn on the forehand works well). The progression is touch/vibrate lightly and faster/and thwack. If the horse were to kick after the whip that is met with a biting actions. If the reacts, it is rewarded (stand/stoke/etc). (But pre...

Tsavo

Copper as a contact killer of microbes has been shown.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3067274/

Tsavo

There is a lease horse in my barn that is "not trained to whip". I had never heard of this and after watching, I have to agree that the horse is not trained to whip. He ignores whip when used correctly and if it is done to get his attention he resents it and doesn't take it as a helper aid...

Tsavo

These are the uses one vet has for the LL... The Lameness Locator® objectively detects and quantifies body movement asymmetry in the horse. It can detect lameness when the eye cannot. It is a powerful tool in the following situations: When a horse fails to respond to treatment because an area causin...

Tsavo

And if the differences one was trying to measure were greater than the variability in the baseline, then you'd be right back to getting the same information you could get from observation. This is incorrect. The LL samples the movement at 10 times the frequency than the human eye can and can see an...

Tsavo

The software already has a sound baseline generated from assessing many many many horses. That's where they get their tolerances. There is no reason to establish one on another horse.

Flexions are not reliable.

Tsavo

The software has tolerances established from many many sound horses. There is no reason to establish a sound baseline with another horse.

Flexion tests are not reliable.

Tsavo

Its a continuing trend of using technology to make up for lack of assessment and palpation skills. This. I don't see the need, I'll take a vet with good eyes any day thanks. Human versus machine... Equine Vet J. 2012 Nov;44(6):652-6. doi: 10.1111/j.2042-3306.2012.00571.x. Epub 2012 May 6. Compariso...

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Here's the second half of the classroom part of a lab on usage of the Lameness Locator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVhz2oladDo The vet talks about many issues including what the LL adds to his diagnostic ability, the use of it in the issue of compensatory lameness, etc. The case study he presen...

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kande50 wrote:Now I'm also wondering about baselines and controls, as it seems like getting them could be a problem?

I don't know what you mean by this.

Tsavo

There should be some way to test into being able to buy it even if you are not a DVM. So why wouldn't your vet let you buy into one for her practice and then allow you to use it? One of my vets has one. Because lay people can't buy them I am guessing vets have to swear up and down they will not res...

Tsavo

Any number of lay people have lasers yet a lay person cannot purchase a Lameness Locator.

Where is the logic in that?

Tsavo

Keeping knuckles close helps with lateral inequities, leaning, collapsing on one side and over dependence on the inside, or outside rein question here - how close together for reference? I think I keep my hands close/ thumbs up but we do have to deal with some leaning on left rein. I've been workin...

Tsavo

Chisamba wrote:Putting a bit of mane between the baby finger and the rein reminds you if your hand is moving.

Along these lines you could hook your pinky under a grab strap.

Tsavo

Its a continuing trend of using technology to make up for lack of assessment and palpation skills. This. I don't see the need, I'll take a vet with good eyes any day thanks. It can measure things your vet literally can't see or can't rigorously quantify... 1. Evaluate mild or multiple limb lameness...

Tsavo

I am not sure why they are limiting the sale of this to vets. I disagree with that. If you wanted one of your own couldn't you just ask your vet to get one for you? No. It is really amazing that lay people can purchase lasers and other treatment tools stuff but they won't sell a merely diagnostic t...

Tsavo

This is such an informative thread, I love it! Anybody have any tips for keeping hands even when one hand is holding the dressage whip? I notice in videos that I consistently "hike up" the hand that's holding the whip... First I want to say your horse looks pretty correct here. Really nic...

Tsavo

The Lameness locator can give rigorous feedback on how a rider is affecting their horse's gait. This has the potential to really help riders help their horses. I think it would be so wildly interesting to be able to link injuries of riders let's say to specific gait anomalies in their horses. I have...

Tsavo

For me, the only way I can manage my shoulders is to have built the correct musculature up. That took 2 years for me because I was starting from such poor posture that I was in PT for shoulder pain from it. I work on the exact muscles needed to pull the shoulder blades down and together every single...

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I will venture into this issue. There are two lives, the rider's and the horse's. They each have a right to a good life. I think there is a minimum amount of skill that a rider must have so that the rider's enjoyment does not impinge on the horse's. It is largely self regulating in my circles though...

Tsavo

Very important testimonial, Chisamba. Thanks for posting it. Maybe it should be a sticky post at the top because of the potential to help others.

Tsavo

That is a very interesting observation, Chisamba. Maybe many fat horses are deficient in some micro nutrient.

Which vitamin was your pony deficient in?

My horse gets balancer and is on grass so I think he is okay but I can't be sure.

Tsavo

https://www.americanfarriers.com/articl ... es-fat-deu

Hmmm. The only way we have gotten significant weight of my horse was dry-lotting him. I knew that was stressful but the weight was worse.

Tsavo

StraightForward wrote: FWIW, she was moving the best I've ever seen her go this morning, and hind feet were tracking up within about 1" of each other, whereas she used to be short by at least a hoof length on the left

Wow that's remarkable.

Tsavo

If you can uncurl and not drop your left hand you will be a dead ringer for I. Klimpe! How is that for motivation???

Tsavo

It is obvious you made those changes! You look so effective sitting there towards the pommel and he appears to be listening to your seat. You are a beautiful rider. Do you think the reason you curl and drop your left wrist is because you let the rein get too long? I had a problem with dropping my le...

Tsavo

So I have video taken and I self correct, and of course just do not progress quickly and perhaps it is also because I am now more interested in the journey than the destination. A clear change of personal ambition This resonated with me because I am coming around to this point of view. I will retir...

Tsavo

Thanks to everyone for chiming in. I love the range of answers. I watched my horse today. I think he is using his neck differently depending on which direction he is trying to go. It's like he can recruit his neck completely in going from right to left but he can't seem to coordinate the neck moveme...

Tsavo

I find it ironic that all these lay body workers and laser people can carry on but I can't buy a Lameness Locator even if I can prove the technology, data acquisition and interpretation, etc. are not as complex as my own research. If I could buy one of those things I would retire early and just do d...

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Surely there are human massage therapists who get good results and do not also hold a medical degree? FWIW, there used to be a holistic vet in the area (DVM, not a naturopath or whatnot) who did very similar type of bodywork, but IMO was not as thorough, and charged 2x as much. I think human masseu...

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Ribs - I believe they were sore via horse's reaction. She previously worked on them, but after the fall Annabelle was very reticent to have them worked on. She is not adjusting them, just massaging in that area. Horses are plenty expressive - at times on Friday she cow-kicked, tried to bite me a co...

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