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More about riding forward : the modern way to ride and school a field horse by V.
S. Littauer, Captain, First Hussars, Russian Imperial Cavalry, Author of Riding Forward
and Jumping the horse.
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LITTAUER Vladimir
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« In the course of the last decade, in America, what is probably the most important
movement in the History of Equitation has been steadily growing. It is the change
from the old-fashioned way of riding a field horse to the modern one.
This change is not coming about easily; American riders at present are divided into
two camps, and hot arguments flare whenever horsemen meet. The several excellent books
lately published on the subject, and the gradual increase of the number of modern
instructors, have not eliminated entirely the confusion, which can be regarded as
a normal accompaniment of any radical change.
It will take many more efforts before sound knowledge can replace the present vagueness
of understanding of the new principles. Many years may pass before all the questions
which a novice may ask, and a stubborn old-fashioned rider may cleverly bring to destroy
the validness of new theories, will be successfully answered.
My eleven years of teaching in America have brought me into daily contact with the
riders of both groups. I know all the popular misconceptions and misinterpretations
of Modern Riding, and in this book I have attempted to explain the most common of
them. Some of these pertain to the use of the Forward Seat, others to the new methods
of making and controlling a field horse , and the biggest of them all is the lack
of appreciation of the fact that in any good system of riding a certain method of
sitting a horse is just an inseparable part of a certain method of schooling and controlling
him.
Schooling is the foundation of good performance and should not be regarded as a special
branch of Horsemanship; its principles should be taught to every rider. This last
contention is the main theme of the present book.
In this book I have not attempted to present the art of horsemanship in its entirety.
While writing , I constantly had in mind the American amateur rider with all his advantages
and shortcomings. I am intimately acquainted with him and I know that he still believes
in "natural riders" and "natural jumpers," that he confuses bravery and strength with
the art of riding and that, in general, tradition and not knowledge governs his riding
and taste. Therefore it seems more important to present the general idea of sound
modern riding than to go into detailed technicalities, in which the average amateur
will only be interested anyway after he has understood the basic principles. » Présentation
de l’éditeur (1938)