>>> Trot to tolt - ask the hindquarters to move over a little - and
she
>>> stepped right into the tolt.
>>Functionally, why does this work? What effect does it have on the
>>position of the horse's body and why does that cause him to move
into
>>tolt? I'm not being argumentative. I just do better when I
understand
>>the body mechanics involved.
>The problem I see is that no method will work across the board for
cuing
>trot-to-tolt, or tolt-to-trot, or foxtrot-to-running walk.
>Karen Thomas, NC
Drifa does a lot of gaits - walk, trot canter, tolt, pace and a bunch
more. David just watched her go for a little bit and then said "move
her hindquarters over a little" and I did, and she tolted. The HQ
thing was just the first thing we tried. He has other things but I
don't know what they are. I didn't mean to give the impression that he
had sent a lot of time teaching the gaits; we sure didn't. He was
mainly figuring out where we would fit into his demo. He had several
suggestions for teaching canter, too. We weren't really there to learn
how to do stuff too much; he wants us to be the "gait newbies". I'm
hoping not to embarrass myself too much. At Liz's clinic, Drifa and I
were very new to each other and so I just tried what Liz suggested and
decided I'd rather not tolt if I had to do it that way. Liz was fine
with that and didn't offer any other solutions. It wasn't a big deal
to either of us. Liz did take Drifa for a spin and had some fun with
her, though.
Penny
