{"id":58396,"date":"2021-04-19T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=58396"},"modified":"2021-04-19T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:00:26","slug":"ulla-salzgeber-on-basic-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/04\/ulla-salzgeber-on-basic-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulla Salzgeber on Basic Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We ride them very deep and low but you always have to control the neck and the head. If you can\u2019t control the neck – that it is long, that it is short, that it is up and it is down – you have problems. Many people ride with the head down and that is okay, but most riders are not able to control it. You have to be able to control it up, down and to the right and to the left. The riders see down with the neck down with the neck, and they pull the neck, pulling the head between the front legs of the poor horse, and the hindlegs are out behind, far behind.”<\/h1>\n

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“It is good to put the horse\u2019s head down to strengthen his back, to make him loose, this is the way I train Rusty in the week where he has no competition, with a long neck, so then he takes the bit and the muscles are very loose and he feels good.”<\/p>\n

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Is this a huge responsibility of German riders and trainers to maintain this tradition for riders all over the world to draw on?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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“It is necessary, the other countries have to learn it, this is why Germany is so successful because this is our tradition and we want to give it to the next generation. The other countries they have no tradition. They know that there is a tradition, but they don\u2019t ask for it, only a few people think, oh they have to come to Germany to train, to learn what is behind it, but most are not interested. ‘Give me a horse and I will ride”.”<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I am riding Rusty if I am somewhere else with my head, then suddenly he sees things and starts to react. For me working with the horse is a mental thing, it gets stronger when you have the horse for longer because you have to know them, and they have to know you. I always get the feeling with Rusty that he knows exactly how I feel. If I am very tired, Rusty knows, and he is like me, if she is tired, then I am tired also, that\u2019s fantastic, and when I get a little bit wound up then he is with me all the way. There will be other great horses I hope, but there can never be another Rusty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“We ride them very deep and low but you always have to control the neck and the head. If you can\u2019t control the neck – that it is long, that it is short, that it is up and it is down – you have problems. Many people ride with the head down and that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":58404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,4,1],"tags":[2175,2176,107],"class_list":["post-58396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dressage","category-uncategorized","tag-rusty","tag-training-grand-prix","tag-ulla-salzgeber"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58405,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58396\/revisions\/58405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}