It’s official, Writing Of Riding is now bilingual… or at least a small piece of it. My article, “A Beginner’s Guide To Rollkur” has been translated into Polish and included in a special anti-Rollkur campaign that is being run by hipologia.pl
Lunging, lunging, lunging! It is spelled so many ways and has so many meanings for people.
I’ve watched people lunge horses with a purpose, others with a crazed look in their eye (the person, although the horse too…), even those who are completely bored and not really doing anything except holding the line as the horse [...]
I’m feeling in a critical thinking mode and decided to put it out there why Hyperflexion is here to stay and no matter how much protest goes on abusers will exist – and publicly. If for some reason this changes I will *gladly* eat my words!
Update 01.21.2010 — I was written requesting one of the images I displayed below be removed from being displayed on my blog, and have replaced it with a ‘censored’ image in it’s place. The link will direct you to the page where the photo I linked to can be viewed. Please note that I do [...]
I was shocked in a conversation some time ago, which so pointedly encompassed the naming of names of certain ‘celebrity’ equestrians. To be honest there was no point in the naming of names and I didn’t know what to do with the information given to me or how to respond to it. It was as [...]
It is “easy” to talk about Rollkur from a distant point of view – perhaps not with a clear-cut opinion, but certainly a disjointed and ‘objective’ one. What isn’t easy is to address Rollkur when you’ve seen the effect it has; not on the horses who are succeeding and making money for their international-celebrity riders [...]
I hate the references to “training” a horse. I know it is such an innocent statement, but often what is unsaid is more loud than what is said and I think the same comes true in regards to training a horse.
What is it to be a real horseman? Can you be a horseman even if you’ve never before been involved with horses? Can you be involved with horses every day and still fail to be a horseman?
If you haven’t been ‘in the know’ regarding the latest assualt on horses and the sport of dressage thanks to Patrik Kittel aboard his horse Stanic at the World Cup Qualifier this will hopefully fill you in a bit more.
No, I’m not talking about the figurative interpretation of Kicking A Dead Horse, but the theatre/stage version! I found this when looking for images for a blog post… and couldn’t pass it up.
Certainly, when hooves are flying and the threat of death is imminent the thought isn’t usually present in our mind that this could be a positive opportunity… but that is what hindsight is for!
