The Piaffe like many horse/animal behaviors is a movement/motion behavior. If a still photo captures it and it meets a description/standard, you are the best which is why a standard is so important. If every animal meets that standard exactly, then you can move one to who has the best chest, the cutest butt, is the friendliest, or has the the best costume/presentation. But if you chose any of the above without the standard, you destroy the meaning of the piaffe.
Study the 3 "piaffe" photos and decide which one exhibits "the bringing of the hocks under the body and the lowering of the croup, together with the raising of the forehand, which lightens the shoulders and allows for the slowing down of movement, more and more without the loss of impulsion."
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Philippe Karl doing Piaffe
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Wade G. Burck
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If I had to guess (Repeat: I don't like equine) The mans horse ranks #1 Ms Allen gets second, and the Chipperfield horse is at least trying.
Casey,
That's the point of a standard. Even if you know nothing about it, it gives you something to reference. You may come to like it a lot, and study it, much as Jim Alexander does with high diving, and I do with bullfighters and rejoneadors. You also picked from 3 people you did not know, so it didn't matter if they were nice or not. If Ms. Allan had bought you a popcorn would hers have not been the best? Now in a "who would I most like to have a shot at" contest we would have probably voted unanimously for Ms. Chipperfield. Yes, each has an opinion in this business, because there is no standard.
Not that it means a damn thing to you, but the gentleman is a member of the Cadre Noir and was the instructor at I'Ecole Nationale de'Equitation for 15 years. When his colleagues hang paper you know it is done right.
Wade
So was I rite?
Casey,
Kinda right. 2 and 3 would be be a coin toss, but heres where you could check out body parts of the presenter, or decide which one is the "cutest and most charming" for you to declare them the best.
Wade
The Cadre Noir horse is beautifully correct and ridden well. Chipperfield doesn't look like piaffe to me at all but a weak passage as he seems to be going forward. Allen's horse is hollow in the back and unbridled and expect the picture is presenting a better piaffe than it actually is. My opinion.
Dianne,
I have seen a video of the Chipperfield piaffe, and granted it may have just been that show, but the horse appeared to not have a tempo and was "jerky". You could tell each time a leg was on him, as the hocks snapped higher. The horse went forward, stopped, forward, stopped.
Wade
Wade
I expected as much. Sometimes you can read between the lines on a photo. They don't always represent what is going on good or bad.
I have seen many videos of horses working and while being presented in slow motion makes them look great, when you see it in actual time there is much to be desired. Tempo and balance is key.
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