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westernworld schreef:

o o o romkabouter gooi even olie op het vuur!

Lusitana schreef:

Je ziet het, ik wil inderdaad van de straat gehouden worden...

SandyRChris schreef:

Ik heb een aantal profielen bekeken, en het valt me op dat de mensen met de meest onvriendelijke houding zelf niet echt veel voorstellen...

Reiner schreef:

@ Lusitana: niet echt een apart vakje, zie maar naar mijn nick, ik ben de amerikaanse tegenhanger van dressuur, hé

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English style riding was brought to America from England a long time ago. It became especially popular in the Eastern US, where people hunted and rode horses the "proper" (traditional) way. They were not cattle ranchers, but usually people who rode as a social activity. Because of this, English riding is more about STYLE than about using a horse to do a job like roping cattle.

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Western riding
Dressage, jumping and cross-country are forms of what is referred to in America as 'English riding'. Western riding evolved stylistically from traditions brought to the Americas by the Spanish, and its skills are based on the working needs of the cowboy in the American west. A main differentiating factor is the need of the cowboy to rope cattle with a lariat. The cowboy must control the horse with one hand, and use the lariat with the other hand. That means that horses must be taught to neck rein, i.e., to respond to light pressure of the slack rein against the horse's neck. Once the lariat is twirled and its loop is thrown over a cow's head, the rope must be snubbed to the horn of the saddle. For roping calves, the horse is trained to pull back against the calf, which falls to the ground, while the cowboy dismounts and ties the calf's feet together so that it can be branded, treated for disease, etc. Working with half-wild cattle, frequently in terrain where it is impossible to see what is behind the next bush, means the ever-present very great danger of being unseated in an accident miles from home and friends.
These multiple work-needs mean that different tack must be used, most notably a curb bit (usually with longer bars than an English equitation curb or pelham bit would have) which works by leverage, long split reins (the ends of which can serve as an impromptu quirt) and a special kind of saddle. The Western saddle has a very much more substantial frame (traditionally made of wood) to absorb the shock of roping, a prominent pommel surmounted by a horn (a big knob for snubbing the lasso after an animal has been roped), and, frequently, tapaderos ("taps") covering the front of the stirrups to prevent the cowboy's foot from slipping through the stirrup in an accident so that he might be dragged behind a frightened horse. The cowboy's boots, which have high heels of an uncommon shape, are also designed specifically to prevent the cowboy's foot from slipping through the stirrup.