Without doubt the reader will have noticed my approach.
In the research of equitation I assume the existance of an ideal. Only occasionally do I admit to the currently common diversions from the horse's postures and balances and the wide-spread use of mechanical means. I do so in Platonic tradition, attempting to understand not so much that which meets the eye, but the idea that underlies it. Or - in the words of Christian traditions - I wish to understand the work of God's hands, rather than deal with its perversion.
The modern rectangular horse is not straight. It must be made straight. How does the rider do this without violating its inner most being? Modern man rarely is upright and a wide spread unawareness of provisions for riding in the human body is evident. Is modern man still able to ride the modern horse? Does their unity have any chance? And further questions present themselves right here, in the human body. What is uprightness? Or, as someone put it. The appearance of balance does not suffice. The rider must be in balance. Which enters new questions.
After the completion of the topics here presented, equine biodynamics and human/equine nerve correlations, two further research topics presented themselves. How to teach riding and how to improve the modern horse.
Much has happened and further publications are pending ... .
