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Hello Lynne,

You are cracking me up. Leave it to a photo pro to find a slick piece 
of new photo equipment that one must have because it would be so much 
fun to video the hair right off this rough trotting lumox. Plus I 
might even see what the problem is. Great idea but I'm broke, 
construction is in the toilet and the bills just keep piling up.

I do have a basic digital videocam so I will shoot some footage and 
my software will play it at 1/4 speed. Fun project.

I have a OF Patriot that I removed the panels from and velcroed 
homemade 1" High Density foam panels so it's very similar to a 
Specialized and Datezz's back is supple and pain free. I also 2point 
some during a ride but not a lot.

I am printing a lot of these responses to experiment with on the 
horse and figure out how to know which diagonal we are on.

Don Huston




At 08:10 PM 11/11/2009 Wednesday, you wrote:
> Don, it might be time to get a low priced vidcam that does slo mo, and
> analyze his gaits from the front, rear, side and on the circle in both
> directions.  Make sure the person asking him to move doesn't hold his
> head tightly yet encourages him to travel straight.
>
> A master shoer friend recently searched for a camera like that and
> found it, here's what he said about it: "Casio EX-FH20 - it's 
> camera- shaped and easy to hold and steady.  In still photo mode it 
> does up to
> 40 fps and in video mode it can toggle between 30 fps (normal) and 210
> fps (slo-mo) ... both of these seem awesome for analyzing gaits, or
> golf swings, tennis strokes, etc. etc."  He tried it out last weekend
> and really likes it for gait analysis.
>
> About two-pointing.  With a Western-type saddle like the Specialized
> Heidi rides in, your weight AND stirrup bar pressure is spread over a
> wide area.  Many English saddles concentrate a ton of weight in the
> stirrup bar area, which is exacerbated when someone 2 (or 2 1/2 as we
> joke) points an entire ride.
>
> My personal experience was with a narrow twist Passier on an xw 
> tree-- I loved that saddle but in order to make the twist narrow, the whole
> tree was narrower at the bars.  I had it restuffed 4 times in one year
> because of her changing fitness, I thought--but it was atrophy from
> stirrup bar pressure.  Tissue damage that caused white patches, well,
> pink skin under her grey coat.  And I was primarily posting the trot,
> not 2 pointing.
>
> Use a Port Lewis Impression Pad to check for yourself...
>
> And for diagonals, before I learned to feel for the back leg coming
> forward, I'd glance downward and make sure i was sitting when the
> outside foreleg hit the ground.  If right, that was the "right
> diagonal".  Hope that helps!
>
> Lynne
>
> <http://www.lynnesite.com>
>
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Don Huston wrote:
>
> > Thank you all for your opinions and descriptions. It is always good
> > for me to get a recap on the mechanics of the rising trot. I do not
> > have an arena but I ride some crooked trails and also circle him
> > around scarey bushes and such. I also switch diagonals a lot (ever
> > since Marci C was so kind to teach me at Eastern Mojave years ago)
> > and I have noticed that the rougher side has remained rough and the
> > smoother side smooth.
> >
> > I am going to do some real circles in some meadows and determine
> > which diagonal is rough and check his legs for problems. On straight
> > stretches it also amazes me that I cannot see any difference in how
> > the horse is moving his head or the rhythm of his hooves when I
> > change diagonals but suddenly my post gets a lot higher.
> >
> > BUT...once I determine which is which I still do not know if the
> > diagonal with the higher post is weak or strong. I want to know
> > which one I should spend more time on to even out my horses diagonals.
> >
> > Don Huston
> >
> >
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