Half Pass
"In the cervical and thoracic vertebral column,
rotation is always coupled with lateroflexion and vice versa.ā€¯ (Jean Marie
Denoix, 1999).
The rotation associated with
lateral bending can be proper or inverted. The difficulty of the half pass is
not the crossing of the legs and the lateral movement but rather the horseā€™s
ability to sustain proper rotation associated with lateral bending. This is the
difference between educating efficiently the horseā€™s physique for the
performance and tricking the horse into the movement.
In both cases, proper or
inverted rotation, the horse will be able to cross the front legs above the
knees and fulfill the jugging standards. However, the horse properly
coordinated will also be capable to sustain suspension, amplitude and cadence
all the way through the half pass. The performance is then beautiful. By
contrast, the horse improperly coordinated is not.
The video commences with a
horse that you have already seen. You can visualize the difference between a
half pass that the horse executed when his body was improperly coordinated and
the half pass that the same horse executes once properly educated.
Chazot is a young horse
discovering his own body. The first half pass at the walk commences well. Then
Chazot loses the proper coordination between lateral bending and transversal
rotation. I helped him a little and he figured how to coordinate again his body
properly.
The following half passes are
a work in progress.
Jean Luc
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