by klonk on Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:14 pm
Not an expert, but I can usually stay on top.
I think the horse is using much more ting to understand where the rider is going.
It's rather the poor sort of rider who thinks in terms of controlling the animal, if he thinks of it in the same dictatorial sense we treat a car or motorbike. We are dictators in operating machines because machines have no brains and emotions. To "become one with the machine" means confidence in total control.
A horse, though, knows more about running and jumping than I ever hope to understand. It is what he was born for, it is what he does. I indicate the direction we are to go, thinking more advice would be rude. Down this path. Over that hedge.
At least, that is the ideal. Interspecies communication is murky at best. Horses are trained to particular cues from the rider. Best if a rider understands how those cues are trained, and why horses respond.
I have a theory about why we ride horses not moose. Horses think we are interesting. They will go there, to horseraces or to wars, or pleasant jaunts in the country, just to see what we are up to. Not so far fetched. Dogs like us and coyotes do not.
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klonk on Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I define internal martial art as unusual muscle recruitment and leave it at that. If my definition is incomplete, at least it is correct so far as it goes.