Alrighty, starting at the top, working your way down, left to right...Two HorseSticks, Mr. Left and Mr. Right, arguing over who will ride the preddy horsie. Isn't it odd how one looks bigger than the other? I love perspective. I can't really DRaW perspective, but I like it anyway:) I'm kind of 2d, too. Two Dimensional. Or maybe too dimensional. Not sure yet. I'll let ya know.In the next frame, still on the top, moving right, like a comic, do I have to keep telling you? Gawd, I hope not. I thought about numbering.. Nah.
Anyway, it happened so fast, you missed it, the Stick on the left, jumped up, kicked the RightStick flat over, knocked RightStick out cold, and hopped on. But, Left Horse Stick made one critical mistake. LeftStick assumed the chair seat, just a smitch tooo far back. Mare hasn't been rode in a while. A tad cold-backed. LeftStick has been bucked out of the frame. How innocent mare still looks!
The End?
OH, the bottom two pictures show a Giraffe on the right, and a Tapir on the left. Again, both types present challenges. The key to any saddle fitting properly is it's levelness relative to the horse's top-line, which you hope is pretty level to the ground. Notice I said hope. I kinda flattened the Giraffe's back a bit, sorry about that. It didn't hurt, promise:)
The real mare has a nice place to put a saddle. The altered ones show the crazy extremes that can happen.
It's important you feel "level" too. Feeling like you're about to go over the head, or over the butt, should be avoided. That's where padding comes in, and custom fitting, and dollars I can't spend anyway:)
Oh, and never mind looking at the last post's SaddleToon, I think this one is way easier to peer at, for me anyway.
I have a few million billion things to say about the chair seat, but they must wait. I'll start by saying the HorseSTicks on the far right, in both center frames, are what is mostly seen riding, today. I think. Sure see it a LOT, anyway. It is not a "dangerous" flaw. It can be a lazy flaw. It is a defensive posture. It is tougher on the horse, purely from a weight and simple physics point of view. Where does your weight go, in the chair? Which way is more fair? Do you dare? Laissez-faire. Okay, I'll stop.
British Equestrian Fan Tangent..
What I'm afraid many won't appreciate about watching Geoff ride, is his physical body type. But if you watch him, he's actually completely light, on the horse's back.
In ANY of those HorseStick Figures above,I could widen them considerably, and not change the balance, correctly centered over the horse.
Does anybody get what I'm trying to burble this time?
Let me know, will ya?
Feel like I'm yelling into a vacuum, here:)
And That's nothing new, neither:)
Old Crone Out.
(originally posted March 21, 2010)
At least I found it!
15 comments:
I like how the one on the far right, 3rd down in the dressage saddle- the head is tipped forward looking down. I see this a LOT in the dressage arenas. What happened to looking up- where you are going? Too much looking Down At the horse. Do we not ride by feel anymore? I see this in WP as well as HP.
Should I have raised the stirrups for the stick rider in two point?
I can't wait to see the stick rider posting with no stirrups. That is gonna be better than getting bucked off by the cold backed mare.
Um, CNJ?
I did nothing to the position of the head.
Ignore the danged head. It's attached to the neck. No flexing.
Must be a distortion?
Lookit the LEGS!!
I can't believe how short your stirrups are, CNJ!
(ducking and running)
Me iz no blessed with long legs. If there was one thing I could change about me it would be height and longer legs. Hopefully the girls are not runts like their mama. *sigh*
I was kinda snikering at the knee position on the close contact pic.
And funny as it seems that this mare is 'perky' in the western tack... her movement is hunter all the way.
She's a lovely mare, CNJ.
Thanks for letting those idiots fall all over her.
It's harder than you think, riding as a stick figure.
:)
<')
GL- I was also snickering at the idea of her being 'cold backed' and dumping anyone. She is one of the sweetest horses, let alone a mare...
She's the one that was headed to the auction when I happened to intervene. (sp?) This is the only time I ever bought a horse, sight unseen and on the word of another. Sometimes it turns our all right. This was one of those times.
Wow GL, your Stick Students are kinda nasty. Maybe an hour without stirrups would help their attitudes.
Buncha DQ's!!!
I think they are hungry, CCC. You can see their bones, fcs.
We need pudgy stick students.
Lunge the sticks figs until they get it right. Someone get them a sandwich.
I know!!!! Let's put shock collars on the stick figures. That'll teach 'em.
ROFLMAO!!
Sandwiches and Shock Collars, you guys are killing me!!!
Chocolate...bzzzzz....chocolate...bzzz!
Kestrel For The WIN!!!
Did someone say chocolate??
How di I miss this? great post as always. And fun!
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