Heeft ze eigenlijk erg last van vliegen?

Over de extensions: ik zag in een haarstukjeswinkel in Haarlem lang wit paardenstaarthaar dat er heel kitsch uitzag. Het grote voordeel is dat het bijna niets weegt, zo kunstmatig is het. Zal misschien comfortabeler zijn dan een zware echte staart.

Gewoon superknap, Nathalie!

Elk paard heeft recht op een staart

@Christel: in een van de nieuwsbrieven van Karen Rohlf (instructrice die dressuur combineert met o.a. Parelli) stond een stukje over de verschillende beschrijvingen van gewichtshulpen voor zijgangen. Heb het even opgezocht en geplakt. De directe link is http://issuu.com/dressagenaturally/docs/may2011newsletter?mode=a_p

"Q: Hi Karen, I wonder if you could
clear something up for me.
When performing lateral movements
I see you are moving your
weight slightly with a feel and focus
into the direction of travel. All
the top level dressage riders I
have seen teach the horse to
move into their weight shift like
that. Why does Pat teach the opposite
by leaning out? Its interesting
that you can achieve the same
thing by completely different body
mechanics, but in truth what are
the differences either way may
produce in the horses movement?
Many many thanks
Rebecca

A: Hi Rebecca,
Great question.... In order to flow
with quality of gait in lateral work
the rider needs to sit in the same
direction as the horse...
But teaching people how to do that
can be tricky, especially if they are
also teaching the horse at the
same time. The exaggerated positions
the Parellis teach do get the
pelvis sort of going in the correct
direction.... If you lean left, it points
your seat bones to the right.... The
trouble is it puts your weight to the
left. I think of the Parelli position as
an exaggeration to teach and for
teaching I only need a step or
two.... Once I get that then it is my
responsibility to stack my body up
over my pelvis.... My pelvis goes,
the horse goes, then we all go together!
The exaggerated position will not
be useful when you want to sustain
movement with a quality of
gait.
Often in dressage-land when riders
are told to sit 'to the right' (or
what ever the direction of travel is)
they try to lean over to the right
which can push the pelvis to the
left!... So the exaggerated Parelli
postiion at least helps get the seat
sort of heading in the right direction...
but it needs to be refined
very quickly if you do it. (Oh if only
riding were easy!)
so if you know the intention then
you can use it and know when to
stop using it and refine it...
I hope this helps!!
Karen"

@Nathalie: Oeps, niet zo netjes om eerst off-topic te reageren en dan pas jou te feliciteren

Gefeliciteerd dus met deze prestatie! Erg leuk om te zien hoe blij je het hele filmpje kijkt .