User talk:Salito
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Hi, I really must beg to differ on the question of impulsion. You cannot have collection without impulsion, rounding of the back, engagement of the hindquarters. Now maybe the judging specs you use are different from other places, and we may be using the same word to describe two different things, but I cannot imagine a piaffe without impulsion, and frankly, gaited horses, whose ambling gaits never have a suspension period, are absolutely required to have impulsion -- it's in their class specs for competition. We can play with semantics, but truly, impulsion is a feature of any gait. (or, at least, what do you call the opposite of doggy and strung-out? LOL!) Maybe the dressage world has a different way of describing forward movement with engagement of the hindquarters, but that is impulsion in my book. I'll toss in some more sources into the article and maybe the thing to do is explain the differences in meanings for the word in competitive dressage in some circles and the rest of the planet? (grin) Montanabw(talk) 04:44, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- Follow up to short reply on my talk page: I tried to get the USDF rulebook online but the web site is not real user-friendly. Thanks. Was amused to see an argument somewhere over the various ways of interpreting German and French terminology. Noticed a lot of old tests that say "impulsion" at the walk. Give it 10 years and there will be a new terminology fad, I'm sure. It won't be Impulsion, it will be "drive" or "suspension" or something. (grin) I did a Judge's school for another discipline a few years ago (and as a result decided to pass on getting the card! LOL!) and recall how they made a HUGE deal about how, if you have to give a horse the gate for moving oddly, a judge should never say a horse was "lame," but rather that it had a "gait deficit" and that we "recommend the veterinarian examine the horse." But oh no, don't disqualify a horse for "lameness!" What b-fricking-s. (Sorry to rant) Horse politics drive me insane some days.
BTW, I see you are relatively new to wiki. May I invite you to look at some other areas? You may want to check out WikiProject Equine (and sign up) you will note links to the articles flagged as the biggest disasters and such. We also have some articles for which we are justifiably proud (we are trying to get Thoroughbred to Featured Article quality at the moment). Also, you may want to say hello to User:Countercanter, the goddess of the Warmblood section. Starting with Dressage (which is a fairly thorough, but very disorganized article), Warmblood, Sport horse, Equestrian at the Summer Olympics, show jumping, English saddle and so on, we have a lot of spinoffs. (It gets as fussy as open stud book, studbook selection, closed stud book and breed registry! Oh yes, and we have bit (horse), bit ring, bit shank AND bit mouthpiece!) There are well over 1,000 articles on horse stuff in wikipedia (At the moment, I have 974 different pages on my watchlist, and that's because I cleaned out some! LOL). We also desperately need photos in some areas, if you have a digital camera and a willingness to drag stuff out of your tack room and take photos, or find horses who will let you take their picture in certain situations (Note all wikipedia images have to be free use, that's why we have such trouble with images--anything with a copyright is a no-go in most cases) . Anyway, much to play with. Feel free to touch bases with me any time if you have questions, as if I don't know the answer, I at least know who might! Montanabw(talk) 02:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the note! I'd love to have a peek at some of those articles. Salito (talk) 14:40, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!!!
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