And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Good eye; would be the capriole in classical dressage. Forelegs tucked, jump straight up, kick out with the rear legs. There’s another movement, mezair, where the forelegs strike out while the horse is moving forward. Movements like the capriole and mezair echo using the horse to kick enemy soldiers to the rear or front of the horse.
Classical dressage came from training cavalry horses for battle, both individually and with other horses (“dressage” is French for “training”).. Horses needed to be strong and nimble, responding instantly to the rider’s direction. In dressage the rider gives most direction via the seat, subtle shifts of weight and balance in the saddle. The reins and spurs are called “aids,” because they are not the primary controls, and used very very lightly. Primary control via the seat makes sense since a cavalryman’s hands are occupied with weapons.
Modern dressage like in the Olympic Summer Games is built off of cavalry training for war, much like the Pentathlon is based on the requirements of being a scout in earlier warfare.
Until it was disbanded after World War II, the US cavalry provided the US dressage teams for the Summer, Olympics.
i have a sister and BIL going to Spain next week on vacation. any idea where this photo was taken? i'm sure that they would love to see this. Thanks in advance
The horse looks like a Lipizzaner, and saddle in the picture bears the symbol of the Spanish Riding School, but unfortunately for your sister and brother-in-law the Spanish Riding School is not in Spain and never has been. It was founded in Vienna, Austria in 1565 and has been there ever since. The “Spanish” is because Spanish horses were used, along with others, to establish the Lipizzaner breed.
However there is a riding school in Spain on par with the one in Vienna. It is called the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art, and is in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. That would be cool to visit.
Fantastic. Judging by the flying dirt, I'd say the horse jumped nearly straight up. What's that guy doing with the BBQ fork?
ReplyDeletewe would jump like that to if someone stuck a BBQ fork up our ass!!
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DeleteGood eye; would be the capriole in classical dressage. Forelegs tucked, jump straight up, kick out with the rear legs. There’s another movement, mezair, where the forelegs strike out while the horse is moving forward. Movements like the capriole and mezair echo using the horse to kick enemy soldiers to the rear or front of the horse.
Classical dressage came from training cavalry horses for battle, both individually and with other horses (“dressage” is French for “training”).. Horses needed to be strong and nimble, responding instantly to the rider’s direction. In dressage the rider gives most direction via the seat, subtle shifts of weight and balance in the saddle. The reins and spurs are called “aids,” because they are not the primary controls, and used very very lightly. Primary control via the seat makes sense since a cavalryman’s hands are occupied with weapons.
Modern dressage like in the Olympic Summer Games is built off of cavalry training for war, much like the Pentathlon is based on the requirements of being a scout in earlier warfare.
Until it was disbanded after World War II, the US cavalry provided the US dressage teams for the Summer, Olympics.
i have a sister and BIL going to Spain next week on vacation.
ReplyDeleteany idea where this photo was taken? i'm sure that they would love to see this.
Thanks in advance
No idea, but they should be able to find something similar there. The Spaniards love their horses.
DeleteThankfully so, else North America may not have had horses until much later.
DeleteThe horse looks like a Lipizzaner, and saddle in the picture bears the symbol of the Spanish Riding School, but unfortunately for your sister and brother-in-law the Spanish Riding School is not in Spain and never has been. It was founded in Vienna, Austria in 1565 and has been there ever since. The “Spanish” is because Spanish horses were used, along with others, to establish the Lipizzaner breed.
DeleteHowever there is a riding school in Spain on par with the one in Vienna. It is called the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art, and is in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. That would be cool to visit.
Looks like a Lipizzaner Stallion. Magnificent horses.
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