Legolas: Starting In Piaffe
San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride gives a demonstration of starting the piaffe with the horse Legolas.
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Radka says: Hello everyone, I would like to add to the discussion on piaffes that it is very informative to watch some very bad ones in slow motion, such as in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7zZu71ckgw from London Olympics. Maybe Will could give us a comment on them as well?
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Kali says:
Thanks for sending in this video. I hope that I have given you all enough information that you can see for yourselves what is happening in the video of the various horses. So answer the question: are these horses lowering behind? Do they maintain the lowered position in the exercise or does the hind end actually get higher, like it seems to be popping up with each stride? Is the rider pulling on the curb rein in the exercise to try to hold the horse on the spot? Is the horse collapsed in the back? Does the horse look relaxed in the exercise? Is the horse pushing off the ground or is it just lifting it’s legs? My goal is to give you all the information you need to make your own mind up about what you are seeing.
Hello everyone, I would like to add to the discussion on piaffes that it is very informative to watch some very bad ones in slow motion, such as in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7zZu71ckgw from London Olympics. Maybe Will could give us a comment on them as well?
Thanks for sending in this video. I hope that I have given you all enough information that you can see for yourselves what is happening in the video of the various horses. So answer the question: are these horses lowering behind? Do they maintain the lowered position in the exercise or does the hind end actually get higher, like it seems to be popping up with each stride? Is the rider pulling on the curb rein in the exercise to try to hold the horse on the spot? Is the horse collapsed in the back? Does the horse look relaxed in the exercise? Is the horse pushing off the ground or is it just lifting it’s legs? My goal is to give you all the information you need to make your own mind up about what you are seeing.