I am re-doing this as my computer said that it didn't send and erased the old one. Sorry if it is a repeat.
> >Next week is the Western States Horse Expo in Sacramento. Drifa and I >> are going to be in Davis Lichman's demo >Whooo-hooo! Yes, I am pretty excited about this. > am studying up on gaits so I have some clue about what I will be > doing. Yikes! I have David's DVD's - "Gaiting Naturally" and am > trying to make some sense of it all. How much can a person learn about > gaits in a week? >>What do you need to know? everything! When gaits are discussed on this list, I just go on to the next thing. We have so many other things to work on that I have chosen to ignore gaits. When Drifa tolts, I ask her to trot, and when she paces I grit my teeth. I have been watching David's "Gaiting Naturally" DVD and have learned a whole bunch. He has studied with Deb Bennet and uses her little hoofprints to demonstrate the footfalls. It makes a whole lot more sense to me now - the way he explained was really easy to understand. He also gave me some pointer for asking for the tolt and now we can go from tolt to trot and from trot to tolt quite nicely. And all on a loose rein - no pulling her head up or leaning way back or putting my feet out front. Have you seen the videos? Anyone? What did you think, if so? >>Here's a really good natural gait video, of Nanna, Icelandic Horse >>(barefoot, treeless, bitless): tolt lh lf rh rf even, 4 beat gait. ;-)) http://gaited-horse.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-gait-icelandic-horse- nanna.html >Judy Penny
