ceasario schreef:Sjef Janssen:
"How we work the young horses depends on the horse. Some we ride real deep, some we ride 'half deep' or however you want to call it. You cannot tell until you go ride the horse. If a horse has a lot of back problems, problems accepting the bit, and very difficult to stretch out, then those horses we very often ride very deep.
But what is deep?
Most of the time a horse has different blocks in his neck and jaw. Before you get to the deepest point, sometimes then especially with stallions, you have four or five of those frontiers that you will hit before you get him that far down that when you open your hand and give, you have the feeling that he really wants to stretch out without falling on the forehand, you really feel the back come up - they want to go round and stay round. Every time you open your hand and the horse wants to put his head straight up, that's a sign that he has not been deep enough - it's as simple as that. So with some horses you have to go very deep before you feel that they really want to stretch out and stay over their back. Some horses have that feeling more naturally, and they have a stronger back - so you don't need to ride them that deep, but you should be able to do it."
Met deze stelling ben ik het eens.
Djies, ik ben een dagje weg, en alweer 2 pagina's vol met discussies.
Aqua, om even over je antwoord van vorige pagina terug te komen:
Wellicht trainen wij dusdanig anders wat je wellicht in 2 termen kunt weergeven: dressuurmatig/corrigerend en herstellend/corrigerend. Hierbij zou ik mijzelf in de eerste categorie en jou in de 2e indelen. Ik kan mij nml niet voorstellen met jouw manier van trainen (no offence) om zo wedstrijdgericht voor te bereiden. Wat jij?

sjips, ik heb nu alweer een 3e pagina gemaakt.
