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Post by arabheaven on Dec 30, 2008 19:36:54 GMT 1
I can't believe I have never heard of this before! I have loved Sylvia Loch's DVDs and so googled her Classical Riding Club only to find Wessex Classical Riding Group is about half hour down the road from me, running clinics and competitions. Not only that but my instructor is a sponsor of the group and RA Sarah Weston is also on there - small world! Have emailed about membership straight away! They award points for sensitive riding, cavesson nosebands, no spurs, simple snaffles and do dressage to music!! Is anybody else a member of CRC? x
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Post by jadehollinshead on Dec 30, 2008 19:37:55 GMT 1
never heard of it, however im going to have to look into this one!
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Post by Roz on Dec 30, 2008 19:41:40 GMT 1
Yup I'm a member, have been so for about a year now, it's a fantastic resource for information.
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Post by sixfootblonde on Dec 30, 2008 20:00:50 GMT 1
I am a member of the Wessex Classical RC and joined for the same reasons as you. I never get to go to any events but really want to support a club with such great ideals.
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Post by heather on Dec 30, 2008 20:51:44 GMT 1
Yes I am a long time member, have known Sylvia for many years, and enjoyed many an argument with her over the '3 point seat'!! I hasten to add, despite our differences, we are still good friends, and I strongly support the ideals of the CRC!!
Heather
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Post by arabheaven on Dec 30, 2008 21:00:17 GMT 1
and enjoyed many an argument with her over the '3 point seat'!! Sounds interesting, please expand heather
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Post by Roz on Dec 30, 2008 21:33:37 GMT 1
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Post by arabheaven on Dec 30, 2008 21:36:33 GMT 1
Thaks for that Roz. Zac is back in work, walking for an hour and you know how there is nothing of me - my seat bones are actually bruised and really sore but I'm assuming this means I am sitting right as I sit tall and straight rather than slouched and on my bum if that makes sense?
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Post by Bay Mare on Dec 30, 2008 21:41:06 GMT 1
I'm a member but there's not much (if anything) on in our area The tests are a good idea though I just wish that more places used them.
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Post by Roz on Dec 30, 2008 21:49:34 GMT 1
Ouch Toni, you are going to have to eat more cakes to bulk out and protect your seatbones! What about buying one of Heather's seat savers?
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Post by heather on Dec 30, 2008 22:17:19 GMT 1
Oh dear, the 3 point seat argument has been around for decades!! Sylvia and Charles Harris fell out about it, irrevocably as it happens, when they disagreed on which bits constituted the three points! Sylvia maintained it is the two seatbones and pubic arch, Charles the two seatbones and the coccyx. There ensued some huge scraps in the letters pages of the now defunct Dressage magazine, which we all turned to first every month!! I disagreed with both!! If you sit on three points all of the time, whether seatbones and pubic arch, or seatbones and coccyx, you will bounce in the saddle. If you sit on your seatbones, ie in 2 points all of the time, equally, you will bounce in the saddle. The seat should remain softly glued to the saddle, in complete synchrony with the horses movement, but if you are stuck on three points, at either end, or two points, this cannot take place!! I argued and still do, that for the movement to be absorbed, the rider's lower back needs to flex in and then back to upright. In order to be able to do this, the pelvis rotates forwards on the bottom edge of the seatbones, ( which are shaped like a slightly pointy rocker) so that the pubic arch touches the front of the saddle momentarily at each stride, but also returns to upright, at each stride. Think about it, if you put a tripod on a surface that not only tipped forwards and backwards, as in canter, or from side to side and up and down, as in trot, it would indeed bounce, as it cannot flex. The seatbones also need to rise and fall unilaterally with each side of the horse's back in walk and sitting trot, as the back moves in two halves, and not one piece. So we continue to argue the toss over this!! I think we will always have to agree to disagree! But I still say that it makes riders bounce!! Heather
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Post by yan on Dec 30, 2008 22:21:42 GMT 1
I'm not a member,but do lurk occasionally with the intention to join,just haven't got round to it.
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Post by gem on Dec 30, 2008 23:19:56 GMT 1
yes i am a member; its a lovely group of people
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Post by mags on Dec 31, 2008 1:57:32 GMT 1
Anyone else find it extremely confusing with all these different methods lol
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Post by Karon on Dec 31, 2008 11:33:05 GMT 1
Would love to be a member, maybe that's something else I need to get round to this year?! Not sure if there is much going on in Shropshire though.
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