Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 1:32 pm
Hi All,
I agree with you Ace, regarding training bareback. That said, if your balance isn't good enough to do that, then you really have no business jousting because you really aren't rider enough for the task. You may have some initial successes, but you are an accident (a bad one) waiting to happen.
The cattle chute method proposed by Mr. Cross is a means of allowing an incompletely trained rider and horse to manage to joust. I would think it minimizes the skills required. There is little skill involved in going down a cattle chute, it isn't a historic practise, and it is probably dangerous to the riders legs and the horse, if the horse should lose it's balance.
Please note I am not a jousting expert - I have only begun training in this aspect of equestrian activity, and there are far more skilled jousters than I can probably hope to be on this list. I have been doing a lot of reading of historic manuals on the subject, and I have had very expert advice.
Anybody who has been around horses for any length of time with half a brain realizes that they will always have a lot to learn - Ace is quite correct regarding this. Every horse is an individual, some training methods that will work with one may not necessarily work with another, all horses are not suited to every task placed before them, and arrogance of the equestrian only leads to broken limbs, necks and damaged horses.
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Bob R.
I agree with you Ace, regarding training bareback. That said, if your balance isn't good enough to do that, then you really have no business jousting because you really aren't rider enough for the task. You may have some initial successes, but you are an accident (a bad one) waiting to happen.
The cattle chute method proposed by Mr. Cross is a means of allowing an incompletely trained rider and horse to manage to joust. I would think it minimizes the skills required. There is little skill involved in going down a cattle chute, it isn't a historic practise, and it is probably dangerous to the riders legs and the horse, if the horse should lose it's balance.
Please note I am not a jousting expert - I have only begun training in this aspect of equestrian activity, and there are far more skilled jousters than I can probably hope to be on this list. I have been doing a lot of reading of historic manuals on the subject, and I have had very expert advice.
Anybody who has been around horses for any length of time with half a brain realizes that they will always have a lot to learn - Ace is quite correct regarding this. Every horse is an individual, some training methods that will work with one may not necessarily work with another, all horses are not suited to every task placed before them, and arrogance of the equestrian only leads to broken limbs, necks and damaged horses.
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Bob R.
