Re: [pic]cowgirl

In article <359...@on.spammer>, Veronica Karlsson writes:
>> >eep, now th epoor thing is going to fall over! you should put it on the
>> >ground, with two opposite legs up like that it probably has a hard time
>> >balancing :)
>> 
>>  The legs are plausible, but don't match the cowgirl's relaxed posture
>>  which indicates she and her horse are lolloping along at 1 or 2 mph;
>>  and the horse would "walk" lifting one leg at a time.  Somewhat faster
>>  and it would "trot", raising the two feet each side a small way off the
>>  ground together, and your fastest march might keep pace with it. Here
>>  it is at half-gallop or "canter", and you would have a job to run that
>>  fast.  Let alone slouch in the saddle smoking a ciggie!
>
>You obviously never read "Lucky Luke"!  :D
                                             nope
>
>Or it could be that they are doing some dressage training... (where
>you're supposed to look relaxed when you're actually working like mad...
>the more you work the more relaxed you should look... this would be one
>of those extremely slow trotting excercises that are guaranteed to make
>your muscles ache...)

 I came across quadruped gaits is an interesting curiousity.

 Well you, or your horse, might trot quite slowly by taking very
 small steps;  but I'm not sure a slow half-gallop (canter) is
 even possible without falling over.

 It certainly is an odd thing to do:  watching cats, they "change
 gear" very naturally through walk/trot/canter/gallop as they speed up.



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