Ultimate Horsepower in Super Slow Motion | BBC Earth Unplugged 

I feel like most of these views are from animators tbh XD

yeah (:

Same... though I'm making a physical animated model

I need those damn animators to perfect the horse animations for the Steel Ball Run adaptation. XD

That’s why I’m here too haha

Yes. Leland Stanford, governor of California, United States Senator, and founder of Stanford University. In 1872, Stanford commissioned the photographer Eadweard Muybridge to undertake scientific studies of the horse at a gallop. Images of the horse's hooves were captured. Stanford wanted to determine if the horses ever had all four hooves off the ground at the same time during the gallop. (They did.) The result was the proto-motion picture "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (1878)". This was a series of 11 photographs, taken by separate still cameras. When viewed in a "flip book" they give a moving picture of the horse galloping. Thomas Edison contacted Muybridge to get technical information. From this Edison invented the motion picture camera.

In Jockey Position we often ride with our toes down, this shot is an extreme example, but this helps better with our position and balance when we have short stirrups in two point, as we grip with our knees turned inwards and take a hold with a bridged rein, compared to gripping with your lower leg and having a rein in each had like English. When riding Racehorses, I honestly keep far less of my foot in the Stirrup, especially riding Racehorses over jumps, hurdles and fences, I would rather lose a stirrup than have a TB dodge to the side, I lose my balance and have my foot stuck in the stirrup after being shoved in there. But some of the best most experienced jockeys have much of their foot in the Stirrup, that's how they were taught in the day, and they're very clearly doing something right. Keep in mind in this shot he's also changing from the standing position to riding a finish, where the Jockey crouches down for more aerodynamics to "Push" the horse on with his arms while pushing with his legs, this is what can also cause the toes to point down. There is nothing wrong with this in this discpline, our saddles, stirrups and entire way of holding a horse is far different. At 0:35 you can see his foot position is far less extreme, but also not heels pointing down, which is incorrect for the Jockey Position.

I want to know why he was pulling backward on the reins each stride.

​@@markmahnken6409 It's to keep constant contact with the horse. The horse's head and neck moves back and forth as they take each stride, which means the rider's hands need to move with them. If the rider didn't, the reins would go completely slack and then snap back hard at the end. For a visual demonstration, tie a long string around your toe and hold the ends. Bring the string to a gentle contact so you can feel it under your toe. Start bouncing your foot, and move your hands with it so you keep that same tension the entire time. (Works best if your legs are crossed.) Once you've held a solid rhythm for about 30 seconds, stop moving just your hands. You'll start feeling those harder bounces.

idk if i have this right, but when i was learning how to ride, the footfall depended on which hoof the horse was starting from and which way the rider was making it turn.

This may be a mite late, but yes. It's called a lead change. It's much easier to see at slower speeds, but it does happen at even the fastest gallop. You can actually see it happen in the slo-mo of the Maximum Security controversy. It's most often used to help with turns (as cross cantering a turn can feel odd to the horse) or to avoid clipping/getting clipped by another horse when in close quarters. The cue for it at the canter is a pick-up of the inside rein and a shift back of the outside foot. (So if you want a left lead canter, you'd do left rein/right foot.) The reason the OUTSIDE foot is used is because that is the foot the horse starts on. Using the left lead again, it's right hind, left hind/right front simultaneously, and then left front striking the ground. For racing Thoroughbreds, the signal is as subtle as a weight shift to one side or the other. Hope this helped clear things up! :)

It could've been a lead change

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Might be able to pull it off with a double long-line like you see in driving training...🤔

Another great place to learn for drawing is FEI livestreams! Check them out! :)

Actually a lot of it isn’t abuse, it’s a very small minority that is. It’s stereotypes like this that are ruining the sport for everyone…