This video is so well produced and a great way to look clearly at the movement of horses. However, the walk is NOT a lateral gait. Other than pacers and gaited horses which are unnaturally made to pace, each gait of every horse is a coordination of diagonal pairs. The brain of the horse is actually organised to do this and if you look at the walk again, you can see that as the right fore moves into protraction, the left hind is preparing to leave the ground. This is mirrored by the left diagonal pair (left fore, right hind). This is important to understand when teaching a horse how to carry his axial skeleton with his appendicular one. It is the coordination of the diagonals that allows him to do this in each and every gait, especially on the unnatural athletic figures of circles and straight lines. 7 years at a large equine hospital allowed me to study the education of the equine mind and body and teach horses how to understand and alter their movement to respond to the athletic needs of specific equitations.
This video is so well produced and a great way to look clearly at the movement of horses. However, the walk is NOT a lateral gait. Other than pacers and gaited horses which are unnaturally made to pace, each gait of every horse is a coordination of diagonal pairs. The brain of the horse is actually organised to do this and if you look at the walk again, you can see that as the right fore moves into protraction, the left hind is preparing to leave the ground. This is mirrored by the left diagonal pair (left fore, right hind). This is important to understand when teaching a horse how to carry his axial skeleton with his appendicular one. It is the coordination of the diagonals that allows him to do this in each and every gait, especially on the unnatural athletic figures of circles and straight lines. 7 years at a large equine hospital allowed me to study the education of the equine mind and body and teach horses how to understand and alter their movement to respond to the athletic needs of specific equitations.