Hi Ming Mar, You can tell a horse is focused if he responds instantly to very light cues or aids. A really focused horse responds to the changes in the rider's posture without having the rider having to make a very big movement. The most focused horses responds to a rider thinking a change in movement. The rider's imagination of the movement causes the rider's posture to shift just enough that the horse notices it and responds appropriately.
Good connected dancing also has a telepathic quality, but not without some effort on creating very good basics. When you ask if I have a list of things I would like people to do, I assume you mean this to apply to dancing. Of course I can think of many skills I would like in a good dance partner. Many of them are the same as the skills in the dressage training scale. I want my partner to be musical (rhythmic), relaxed, forward thinking, clear and energetic in his movements, grounded, connected and dynamic (to name a few). We hear a lot about connection in tango, but rarely about the fundamental skills needed to get there. Lisa Battan www.battanlaw.com Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 19:13:33 -0800 (PST) From: Ming Mar <[email protected]> Subject: [Tango-L] A Training Scale To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lisa Battan writes: >The skills are rhythm, relaxation (or suppleness), contact >(which I think many people refer to as connection in >tango), impulsion (which could be forward movement, >correct use of the joints and muscles and focusing of the >mind), How can you tell if the horse is focusing his mind? >I think a discussion of basic, fundamental skills and how >they build upon each other, or inter-relate would be >interesting. The skills and abilities a person needs depends upon what you want that person to do. Do you have a list of things you want people to do? -- _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
