Des gen qui ná pas peur/Not afraid
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http://www.horsemanpro.com/articles2/rollkur.htm
The owner of this site is controversial - to say the least. Interesting site!
excerpt:
" This is how the amateur greenhorns got the dressage to the state where it is now. You can practice this at home and see how absurd the whole thing is. Remember that which maters to people the most when they start riding.
First of all they become concerned with not falling off the horse, just like any one else. The second problem they face is the bouncing on horses in the sitting trot. Here they start discover various seat adjustments to prevent that, the most common is collapsing in the hips, some call it sitting on the pockets or some say to push the belly button back.
After they finally mange to twist them selves into the saddle in some deformed way they will invent theory or some justification for it, and of course, since they do not know what they are doing they need to explain them selves all the time. In other words they find the easy way to travel on the horse and then justify it."
(par Margareta Westlin)
Allège Ideal
Je pense que "sujet à controverse" n´est pas tout à fait pertinent, et qu´il faudrait traduire controversal par "polémique".
Merci à Margareta de signaler ce site qui en effet ne manque pas de courage. De plus, le texte y est remarquablemet illustré.
Un autre extrait :
"The rollkur now make sense, because in order for the horse to retain this deformed position for the duration of the ride, it needs to stretch its neck in all sorts of extremes and unnatural ways, hence the new name by the English speaking countries for Rollkur (German term) the Hyperflexion (hyper- means excessive, excessively), which speak for itself.
The dressage today reflects the obsession of the amateur dressage riders with the position of the horse’s head, which reflect their amateur incompetence. They simply cannot go on from this point and grow as riders, because the whole concept of riding the horse´s head and neck is preposterous. At this point you can now understand their need for the rollkur and its justification"
(par JdB)