Clyde Beatty Collection #3
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
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Buckles,
There is one of those flat plated lashes Roger Smith mentioned some time ago. Lou Reagan used them also, and you don't see them anymore. Lou liked them because the could lay the whip on his shoulder, to move props and it stayed on better then a round lash.
Wade Burck
I am sure that us that are old enough remember him just like this photo.
Wade, Beatty never moved any furniture.
Johnny,
No kidding. They were too heavy to move without a crew. And you couldn't use prop boy's like you can with heavy elephant tubs. What is your point? When you sit "one" up on a pedestal, roll "one" over, and bounce the rest, you don't need the space or training skills that you need to "sit" 16 up on the ground,(did he have one that didn't sit up on a pedestal?) or roll 8 over, or walk 3 on their hind legs(did he have any?) or imagine "corbetts"(I know he didn't have any.) If you understood animal behavior, to reference bouncing a lion as feline training, you would realize it would be the same as referencing a bucking horse as horse training. And those rodeo cowboys are incredible trainers.
But Beatty is an excellent example of how wild animal "training" has advanced to today. Elephant training has pretty much stayed the same, but horses alas, have deteriorated. So sad.
Wade Burck
Johnny,
Let me start again.
Buckles,
There is one of those flat plated lashes Roger Smith mentioned some time ago. Lou Regan used them also, and don't see them anymore. Lou liked them because they could lay the whip on his shoulder, to move props and it stayed on better then a round lash. He only had a barrel, bridge top, and swing in the act. He only used the flat lash at winterquarters for practicing.
Wade Burck