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No need to apologize Beth.  After all isn't that what is so great about this forum?  The ability to toss out ideas and contributions without the feeling of recriminations.  At least that is how I feel.  And if I come across as an absolute idiot so be it.  At least I am learning first hand and not being an armchair coach-couch potato!  LOL!   Seriously, folks, lets be constructive with our criticism.  I don't know one person on this forum, obviously including myself, that can not benefit one way or another from the question and answer period of training.

 

D'Arcy

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Beth Walker <bwalker2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I didn't mean to imply any right / wrong, or incompetence.  If that
was how it came across, I apologize.

 This was just my opinion, and my own preference.  I remember riding
a loaner horse equipped with snaffle and running martingale.   At the
time, I was used to riding my old horse with either a snaffle and no
martingale.  When I tried giving a lateral signal with this loaner
horse, it just felt to me as if it got lost because the rein runs
through the rings on the martingale, and it was adjusted pretty
short.   It was an uncomfortable, trapped feeling for me.  The German
martingale that I have gives me a similar feeling as no martingale.


On Mar 26, 2008, at 3:07 PM, rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>>>>> I don't use running martingales, because I don't like the way
>>>>> they  constrict how I use the reins.   I like to be able to
>>>>> move my rein  laterally to give cues, and you just can't do
>>>>> that with a >>>running  martingale.
>
> I couldn't understand this till I saw that you use a hackamore with
> leverage. I use a snaffle with a running martingale and feel I have
> plenty of lateral freedom. As far as "right/wrong" I've seen some
> riders who I have a lot of respect for their riding skills who use
> them so I don't think it's a sign of incompetence or anything. :-)
>
> I've never used one with anything with leverage.
>
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