Riders’ Perceptions of Equestrian Communication in Sports Dressage

Blokhuis, Mari Zetterqvist; Lundgren, Charlotte

doi:10.1163/15685306-12341476

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“…In sports or racing usage, only the human participants are responsible for taking the initiative during the training, which is conduct for specific purposes such as raising the skills needed in Olympic disciplines or races. Whereas, in a case of leisure usage, especially riding outdoors in the fields or the forest, also the horse may take the initiative under human control, and the main goal of the training is relaxation and active rest [11].…”

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The Pattern of Superficial Body Temperatures in Leisure Horses Lunged with Commonly Used Lunging Aids

Maśko

Zdrojkowski

Domino

et al. 2019

Animals

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Background: The natural head and neck position (HNP) of horses differs from the position in horse riding when bit is used. The special lunging aids (LAs) are applied in order to modify HNP. Different types of LAs have the potential to affect the work of horse muscles and the superficial thermographic patterns (STPs). The effects of thre LAs on STPs of neck, chest, back, and hindquarters were investigated. Methods: Sixteen leisure horses were lunged with freely moving head (FMH), rubber band (RB), chambon (CH), and triangle side reins (TRs). The thermographic images (n = 896) were analyzed before/after lunging for mean temperatures (Tmean) and minimum–maximum difference (Tdiff). Results: Superficial Tmean increased (p < 0.001) in cranial part of neck, back, thoracic area, and limbs after lunging regardless of LAs application or its type. In comparison to other LAs: With RB, Tmean was higher in regions of interest (ROIs) 2,7 and lower in ROIs 3–4 (p < 0.05); with CH, Tmean was higher in ROIs 2–4 and 7 (p < 0.01); and with TRs, Tmean was higher in ROIs 2–4,7,9–11 (p < 0.01). In ROIs 2–4 and 7, Tdiff was lower with LAs than with FMH (p < 0.01) and in ROIs 9–10 with TRs. Conclusions: The choice of LAs should be dictated by the expected effect; however, all LAs increase the quality of the leisure horse lunging. LA use is more desirable than lunging with FMH.

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The Pattern of Superficial Body Temperatures in Leisure Horses Lunged with Commonly Used Lunging Aids

Maśko

Zdrojkowski

Domino

et al. 2019

Animals

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“…19,20 As Blokhuis and Lundgren [p. 4] emphasise ‘horses are seen more as objects responding to humans’ initiatives that subjects interacting with humans’. 6 Secondly, supporting the coaching of riders, current UK coaching qualifications espouse both behaviourist (framed as coach-led) and constructivist (framed as student-led) informed coaching styles. 21 Constructivism posits that learning is an active process constructed in the mind of the individual in response to their experiences, separating the organism and environment during interactions.…”

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Can’t jump, won’t jump: Affordances of the horse-rider dyad underpin skill adaptation in showjumping using a constraints-led approach

Davies

Stone

Davids

et al. 2022

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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Equestrianism is part of a global industry influenced by a rich history of over 4000 years of culture and tradition. As the only interspecies Olympic event, equestrianism is facing negative public perceptions of competition performance and traditional coaching practices. In this position paper, we propose a constraints-led approach as a framework for contemporising equestrian coaching practice. Ecological dynamics is the theoretical framework that underpins a constraints-led approach methodology, providing guiding principles that inform a nonlinear pedagogy in sport and physical education. A constraints-led approach focuses on the individual (organism/s), task and environmental constraints acting over multiple nested timescales and what this means for how behaviour emerges. Using examples from the equestrian discipline of showjumping, we outline how a constraints-led approach can inform coaching behaviour and practice design to support skill acquisition through co-adaptations in the horse-rider dyad system. By focussing on the horse-rider dyad as a complex system, there is a move away from a human-centric perspective of compliance and control of the horse, toward system agency and intentionality in problem solving. Practice design principles of intention, representativeness, constraints manipulation and functional variability support the dyad to co-adapt and interact effectively through practice to achieve performance goals. Skilful performance is developed through attunement to perceptual information that invites opportunities for action (affordances). Understanding the development of affordance perception in the horse-rider dyad could guide the application of a constraints-led approach to equestrian coaching practice.

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“…Most of the day, ponies toil steadily to and from the conversion vehicle, or up and down the windrows, impatient to be off after each turn. This intersubjective focus makes clear how ponies bring their own experience and knowledge to a given encounter, with the appropriate course of action decided collaboratively, albeit using silent and largely imperceptible communicative acts (Zetterqvist & Lundgren, 2017). This supports Shaw’s (2013) idea that animal agency ranges from the highly rational to the less articulate.…”

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Agency as Interspecies, Collective and Embedded Endeavour: Ponies and People in Northern England 1916–1950

Wadham¹

2021

J Historical Sociology

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Animals are increasingly acknowledged as historical agents. There are calls for more critical approaches that explore how this agency-often shared with humans-is embedded within wider relations of power. This paper responds by employing Critical Theory, particularly the ideas of Jurgen Habermas, to explore how interspecies agency is shaped and constrained by its broader socioeconomic context. Empirical illustrations are drawn from the experiences of Dales ponies and people in the early twentieth century, who found themselves navigating the growing commodification of their shared lifeworld. The findings suggest the outcome of this process of "colonisation" was not inevitable. Rather, just as the demise of the ponies seemed unstoppable, their shared communicative relations re-emerged powerfully during the harsh winter of 1947. The paper asks what this means for our understanding of the apparently irrevocable decline of horsepower and how we might better understand horses' own experiences of such events and processes.

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Riders’ Perceptions of Equestrian Communication in Sports Dressage

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

The Pattern of Superficial Body Temperatures in Leisure Horses Lunged with Commonly Used Lunging Aids

The Pattern of Superficial Body Temperatures in Leisure Horses Lunged with Commonly Used Lunging Aids

Can’t jump, won’t jump: Affordances of the horse-rider dyad underpin skill adaptation in showjumping using a constraints-led approach

Agency as Interspecies, Collective and Embedded Endeavour: Ponies and People in Northern England 1916–1950

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