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Re: Western Pleasure Horse Training Video Tutorials
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Since I'm so full of it (it = ideas!) I'll elaborate and if you feel inspired by any of this, awesome! These are more just things I think about and are by no means up to you to explain if you don't want to!
Shoulder lift thing- as I understand equine anatomy, the foreleg is attached to the "body" of the horse with muscles, tendons, ligaments, and other soft tissue only; no bone like our clavicle. The whole forelimb, from the scapula down to the hoof, can move relative to the rest of the body (lets just say the ribcage for simplicity) to a certain extent. In collection, the ribcage is "lifted" relative to the forelimb; there is more distance from, say, the top of the withers to the point of the elbow. When the horse isn't using himself properly, the ribcage is "dropped" and the body is sunk into the space between the forearms. Collection is associated with lifting the shoulders, but physically, aren't the shoulders/scapulas actually lower than where they would be if the shoulders were "dropped?" I guess I picture a "dropped" shoulder as the slackening of the muscles between the shoulder and the body so that the limb juts upward relative to the ribcage. A dropped shoulder is really more of a dropped ribcage, and a lifted shoulder is more of a lifted ribcage. Is this accurate at all? lol
Stride length- I would LOVE to see close-up video with some kind of objective measurement of a horse with a short stride and a lengthened stride (same horse, being asked differently by the rider). Something like marking spots on the hooves to see the length, then looking at the angle the leg moves relative to vertical in both forward and backward movement in the stride, and looking at how much the knee/hock bends, and how far under the body the hock goes relative to a specific point (I usually look at the sheath if I can since it doesn't move). Also, being able to see how much height the hoof gets off the ground in a short vs long stride, or between horses with different degrees of "quality" to their movement.
Head bobbing- It looks awful, no matter what. Something to describe the way a horse carries itself with a "bobber" vs a non-bobber, how it relates to collection, stride length, etc. How to fix it- in a horse that can be held level but that bobs when whatever missing component isn't there.
Collection- I've always wanted to see how a collected horse, traveling with "drive" from behind and "lift" in the front end, distributes its weight across the 4 hooves. If a horse loped on some kind of pressure sensor track, would a very collected horse be putting more weight (PSI) on the hind hooves than the front? I'd also love to see some kind of comparison between individual parts of a horse's frame in collection vs uncollected but at the same speed. How would the neck, loin, hindquarter, foreleg, knee, hock, etc compare? I think I get the concept but I'd love to *see* it.
There ya go... stuff that keeps me up at night. I'd love to help with any of the video editing parts- if you got the video, I could probably make the points and analyze distances and angles frame by frame. The videos you have on YouTube that were sent to AQHA WP judges, where they have the horses lope with increased and decreased cadence, canted hips, collection, etc are totally what I have in mind, but more of a close-up and broken down even more objectively.
I can dream, right?
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