08/19/2022
Wisdom 3 is on
Wisdom 3 studies the dressage movements from the athletic demands perspective, how the horse’s physique has to be coordinated to benefit from the gymnastic exercise, and able to perform soundly, effortlessly, and expressing his style.
We start with the Shoulder in as the movement is well known. As we regard dressage movements as gymnastic exercise, there is no chronologic order, Shoulder in, Half pass, and so on. The chronologic order promotes the false belief that one movement prepares the other. Shoulder in executed without coordinating the horse’s physique for the athletic demand does not educate a horse. A bad Shoulder in cripples the horse as surely as a bad Piaffe or a bad Flying change.
The first month we study shoulder in. The second month, flying change, the next month, Half pass, the following month Piaffe, and always from the perspective of the athletic demand and appropriated body coordination. The false belief that one movement prepares the other limits horses and render more sophisticated movements inaccessible for most horses and riders. On the contrary, when the focus is on educating and coordinating the horse’s physique for the athletic demand of the performance, horses can perform as far as their athletic abilities permit.
Wisdom 3 creates a paradox. Dressage movements that cripple the horse when performed with a dysfunctional physique became the most efficient physical therapy when the horse’s physique is developed and coordinated for the effort.
Jean Luc.
