The Mask

Educate Your Eye Shoulder In proper and inverted rotation Example of hind and front limbs propulsive activity Horse's Back Up-Down Proper Muscle Development Caesar photos Airs Above the Ground Uneducated and irresponsible techniques Long and Low Misconceptions About Long and Low Misconceptions part 2 The Naked Truth Ribs and Muscles Excerpt from IHTC Functional Anatomy Get rid of the boxes Draft Shoulder in Lifting the back Lifting the back Tina & Bridget Jones Force 1 Forces 2 Forces 3 Neuro Feedback Foreleg Saddle Fitting Macel Rafale SOM Meaning of Life 35 Artists are Prophets It will be too late The Seat Equestrian Art The Glove Intelligent Saddles Wrong Dynamics Saddles evolve better way The Hand Energy Flexion of the poll Every stitch The Tree Of Life Magic Peripheral Thinking Thinking Wisdom Questioning Answers The Mask The Science of Physiotherapy Low Back Pain Magic Portal Charpege The Walking The Holy Grail Fitting The Motion Saddle Fitting Precision Forces On The Equine Back Applied equine biomechanics and anatomy piaffe Keepers of the primal Equine Lecture The New Seat Kissing Spine Forum Tree of Life The Comfort Zone The Beauty of The Beauty The Zone Riding The Details The Time Of No TIme Half Pass Half-Pass 2 Body schema Macel Samba S A saddle in tune Integrity Moon Theories

The Mask

Jean Luc Cornille

twitter

facebook

google

Sometimes, it is not that certain persons change…

It is just that their mask fall.

In France, when someone betrays you, you tell one in the face. One tries to punch you, if you are faster you punch one first and so on. This does not improve human relations but eases the blood pressure. In America, if someone betrays you, you give a hug and smile. The American approach is more effective; as you give a hug, you are in the best position to stab one in the back.

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” (Albert Einstein) And the great man to add, “It is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.” (Albert Einstein) When you treat the equestrian art as a science allowing the horse to approach the performance with a body precisely developed and coordinated for the athletic demand of the move, you take the risk of being regarded, paraphrasing Nuno Oliveira, as a “Damn Poet.” As we have taken this risk, we are delighted at the science of motion to see how many are receptive. The love for the art, the love for the horse is strong, and it is find to us to be referred to as “Damn Poets” After all, Jonas Mekas said, “In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.”

The fundamental emotion allowing to stand at the cradle of true art and true science, needs to rest on knowledge serving intuition and skill. This demands intelligence and this is where the masks fail. Ego is not intelligent. The forum of the science of motion is unique, as everyone knows enough to know that there is a lot more to know. We participate in providing the lot more to know as we are permanently learning with the progresses of scientific findings. Everyone discusses experiences, successes and difficulties, without having to show off. The family of the science of motion is very large and it is a very powerful family learning together. The power of learning together is considerable. A word can make sense in one mind and does not awake the same understanding in another mind. The capacity to discuss, to use different words without the need of being competitive, to don’t discuss for the fake glory of a blue ribbon but discuss for the enormous pleasure of loving the horse and having a constructive conversation with the horse, leads one to use a world or a sentence that light up another one’s mind.

For decades, I explain that at the contrary of traditional beliefs, it is the back that creates legs problems and not the legs that cause back problems. Recently, a member of the family wrote a paragraph that summarizes the problem better than I ever did. "The work of the back muscles is to protect the spine from excessive range of motion and direct forces created by and to the limbs. Misdirection of these forces by the back result in kinematic abnormalities that then result in lameness if not addressed. Proper direction of the forces by the back result in proper kinematics which protect the limbs and result in soundness. Therefore, all limbs lameness other than physical injury by a blow or accident start first in the back and it is through correcting the back that the lameness can be reversed." (Ronda Hanning)

James Rooney’s famous statement, “A major cause of lameness is lameness,” never became the fundamental principle of therapy because the source of the kinematics abnormality causing injury, the back dysfunction, has never been investigated, identified and addressed. Since the approach is not in the book of the veterinary schools, we are damn poets, but at the end, the horses are sound.

“One can steal ideas But no one can steal execution and passion” (Tim Ferris) We teach execution, the science of motion is about the practical application of new knowledge and the execution awakens passion. Once we liberate ourselves form the egotistical needs of submission, once we reach consciousness and realize that all along the horse has willingly tried to please but protecting his muscle imbalance or other issues, once we take the responsibility of analyzing the horse’s resistance and providing educated insights, we reach the cradle of true art and science. The ones who believe that they know all, go solo, and they crash, and the mask fall.

Jean Luc