Hy, I did NOT want to comment ANY of those posts about walter Feldmann, but I honesrtly can't take this anymore!
First you translation is not completly right. What he says is about the hosre its origins, how he trained it, about the potential and that this horse spent quite some time unworked on the pasture, haveing a "vacation", before this video was shot. If you don't know Walter Feldmann who is one of the biggest people in Icelandic Horse riding, shows a lot about what I suspected about a very long time. There are many people that like his style and many that don't like his style, but I guess that occurs in every style of riding, if it is Western, Dressage, Jumping... BUT, always this judjing about us Europeans and how we ride our Icelandics, I really can't hear it anymore. Yes. we have a tradition to ride these horses. You don't. Yes, there was a critical article about Icelandic horse riding in the Cavallo magazine. You couldn't even read it, but a picture was enopugh to judge Europeans again. That there was a huge cry out in the German Icelandic Horse scene, doesn't matter to you... A lot is happening and things change, but in the end, we ride the toelt, we ride the lying pace. By the way haven't seen anybody of you guys on a FEIF qualification. I can't partiucipate either, but at least I am not judging people that can and have horses with the material to do it. Reading here always made me wonder IF I actually want to bring my horses over here. Now, they are coming and I am seriousluy hoping to be able to find traditional Icelandic horse riders, because that horse and its gaits do NOT have to be reinvented. Just my two cents. Yvonne IceHorses Community for Photos and Videos: http://kickapps.com/icehorses "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
