I have heard this behavior called a number of things. A weave, a snake, a serpentine, etc. It is truly beautiful if done with different colored horses, as Brian Cassartelli is doing above, or a very different way with silks attached to the surcingles, that wrap as the horses weave, as Alexis Gruss is doing below. The maneuver is even difficult to describe and has to be seen to be appreciated. If it is kept tight and controlled, it is breathtaking. If it gets strung out, it is the sloppiest example of "what the heck are they doing", you would ever see. Like a head to tail waltz, done with that tight control/precision it is a thing of beauty, strung out it is something ugly that makes no sense.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
What I consider a top liberty horse behavior. What say you John Herriott?
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Wade G. Burck
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In both photos the horses appear to be strung out. I agree close in turns are what make it effective. Yes it is difficult to train and I have trained on it a couple times but never had time to polish it up for public appearance. Relitively unheard of here until Daniel Suskov put it in the arabs for Tarzan's Sylvia act. Frankly I had never thought about it all thru the years and regret that I did not train it for a number of various acts. I train it but am not a fan of head and tail waltz and prefer it when they all turn together, especially with eight, ten or twelve. So be it.
John,
I saw a nice single waltz in Florian Richters 12 act, 6 blacks and 6 greys. After they did a split reverse, the greys reversed and they went around black, grey, black, grey etc. The greys waltzed one at a time, every 2 steps, all in time to music from My Fair Lady.
And I like the head to tail better John, because you taught me how to train it, and how to train it well.
Wade
John,
Why don't you down load me some pictures of your fine liberty acts. Let Europe see what America is capable off. You can ask one of your girls to to show you how, there is no shame in that I do it all the time. LOL. The email is wburck3@aol.com
Wade
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