Baucher gave us the root formula for correct horsemanship, a soft jaw. You can add a good seat, correct balance, and simple aids. Then you could define each of those three items into many more. But if the jaw is soft, it is correct. The other side is you might have a list of "correct" methods, but if the jaw is not soft none of it matters."
Russ Burns, quoting Baucher and interpreting his own experience
The tongue is what Bach-y-Rita calls the ideal "brain-body interface", an excellent entry point to the brain..."
Norman Doidge, "The Brain That Changes Itself"
I feel free to say to my students, "Keep your mind full of pictures of the normal body all the time, while treating the afflicted".
As I have said, a knowledge of anatomy with its application covers every inch of ground that is necessary to qualify you to become a skillful and successful Ostheopath...
Andrew Taylor Still, "Philosophy of Osteopathy"
Forward a horse is an old phrase, which means to accustom a young horse to walk straight forward. Ordinarily one leaves this work to those called breakers. For me that is a mistake, and this early education should be, on the contrary, reserved for men of a certain level of knowledge.
To forward a horse properly, it is not enough to be solid in the saddle; it is necessary to detect and right away to suppress his poor tendencies, otherwise one creates problems for the ecuyer that could be avoided.
Craig Stevens, NSAE, quoting Baucher
After God, only man has a magical power over all that he embraces. Action is the effect of the force which puts the horse in motion. This force comes from the horse, or the horseman; it is said: To have action, give action.
Horses who naturally have action to start with are easier to train, and less subject to defend themselves than others; their tendency to move forward allows them to better appreciate the various contacts of the bit, more quickly to take a good position of the head and neck, and to remain better in the hand.
Craig Stevens, NSAE, quoting Baucher
Calm, forward and straight. Riding the horse with a natural carriage on straight lines in the ordinary paces in free forward movements with the reins in contact and on a long rein. This is know as riding straight forward. This kind of riding my be practiced for itself alone.
Russ Burns, member NSEA, quoting Podhajsky
