Dressage Queen
I found this film making site while visiting one my favorite blogs, The Carrot. So I borrowed from The Carrot and made my own little mini movie. It is a short parody which hopefully you will enjoy.
Dressage Queen
(It has been brought to my attention that my female character may resemble an English monarch. This is not the intention at all. In fact, I am a great fan of the Brits. Please understand that when using this program for free there are limited characters and choices to use. When I saw the figure looked like a queen I immediately thought of "Dressage Queen" and not the monarch of any country. As for the accent, it was the default accent - I don't even know if there is a choice of language there as it was my first attempt at this EVER. Plus, when I played it back it sounded very cool. So please, do not take this in any way, any form, to represent any monarchy other than the Dressage Type. If I've offended anyone because of this I apologize. I was looking to only offend advocates of rolkur/hyperflexion/LDR)
Dressage Queen
(It has been brought to my attention that my female character may resemble an English monarch. This is not the intention at all. In fact, I am a great fan of the Brits. Please understand that when using this program for free there are limited characters and choices to use. When I saw the figure looked like a queen I immediately thought of "Dressage Queen" and not the monarch of any country. As for the accent, it was the default accent - I don't even know if there is a choice of language there as it was my first attempt at this EVER. Plus, when I played it back it sounded very cool. So please, do not take this in any way, any form, to represent any monarchy other than the Dressage Type. If I've offended anyone because of this I apologize. I was looking to only offend advocates of rolkur/hyperflexion/LDR)
Come back real soon now, ya' hear?!
Loved it. Keep up the good fight, woman!
I got the Zeitll book, I'm reading it in small gulps. I like his vision of an ideal. Due to my MS I'll never get there, just like I'll never get to the advanced level in Forward Seat riding, but it is good to read books by people with decades of advanced riding under their belts, especially riders who would NEVER use Rollkur.
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Thank you! I try and just wish I had more available time to write!
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You're off to a good start. Now you need to create something that sticks an even bigger skewer into the target. Be fearless.
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LMAO! Thank you. I'm chuckling because you sound like you're about to hand off an uzi to me!
Being I'm not that computer saavy it was quite a pleasure to be able to make it in such short a time without having to call in some sort of computer exorcist to help me out.
I hate what's going on with riding and showing nowadays, and mind you I don't hate the people, I hate the techniques.
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Horses for Life IS a fabulous magazine!But it's true, if all I was looking for was another "$1 million" ribbon to hang on my horse's stall, I wouldn't be reading it either.
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Yes, Alli you're right.
I would add to your thought two additional thoughts. One is that odds are if you're trying to win or you have any expectation of winning a one million dollar ribbon you're not reading blogs like mine (from a lowly amateur) anyways.
The second thought is exactly how many of us are looking for or expecting to get a one million dollar ribbon?
But if such a person doesn't read this blog, that's fine, being the intent of the blog was dressage for
"the rest of us"
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I am also an amateur, and I have ridden &/or handled horses for 44 years total. In the 1970's, in reaction to the Arabian fashionable breeding and the awful Arabian shows, I started judging horses by their owners (and vice-versa.) This was an easy way to whittle down the number of horses I considered worth buying. Yes, in some ways I'm a romantic, I expect Arabian horses to improve their people (it does happen.)
Based on this method of choosing horses, I would never consider buying a dressage horse nowadays. Do the "dressage queens" (not you) realize how negatively they reflect on their horses? I can't really blame their horses too much, it is hard for the horse to be a positive moral influence when it is subjected to bondage and tortured. I do mean bondage, look at all the leather straps, whips, high boots, shiny metal spurs and laquered looks. Images like this used to be mailed in plain brown paper wrappers (oh, I forgot, just images of people in bondage.) Back then NO-ONE used as much bondage as modern dressage in training horses, and there were some pretty awful "trainers" back then. Yes, the trainers did torture horses back then, but after the breaking most of the horses were allowed to move without their chins being plastered to their breast bones.
Just a thought, and I do not blame you if you don't post this. Its just that I've seen a LOT of bad horsemanship the last 40 years, but until recently it was not rewarded by international and Olympic medals.
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