Re: horse trotting

llizard wrote:
> Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine wrote:
> > Has anyone done an animation of animals showing all the real-life
> > four legged walking patterns ("gaits"), which can all be observed
> > in domestic cats if you have cats at home.
> [snip]
> > (B) TROT.  If it was a pantomime horse the front and back back
> > pairs would be exactly _out_of_ step i.e. the legs on the left
> > side scissor inwards as the legs on the right side scissor
> > outwards, then oppositely.  The diagonally opposite pairs that
> > are _out_ do the work, hitting the ground and swinging over the
> > foot then lifting off the ground in their furthest back position.
> .
>            /      ha
>       ~,   \,^^%--- ha
>       /)\~__>   \ ha  I just finished a Javascript
>      '  \ \~_>^_ ~      animation of a horse
>        _|_)_\_( )~~~       trotting.
>       /  \|   |\|
> ejm98     `  '   \
> 
> You can view it at
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/horstrot.htm
> 

I don't know what that is, but it isn't "trot"...

Trot is "two-pace", "..clp-clpclp-clpclp-clpclp-clp..." (that's "...clip
clop clip clop..." but very close together...) and the body of the horse
moves up-down-up-down-up-down, in a way that can be very painful for a
rider (one "up-down" per step, two steps in one stride, so that's
"up-down-up-down" in one stride. The image below shows two strides). It
is usually the trot that makes your bum sore from riding...


trot:

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---`-----`-----`--`----`-----`-----`--`-----


If you have seen on tv how a rider rises-and-sits-down,
rises-and-sits-down, rises-and-sits-down,... then you have seen one way
to ride in trot. It's called "rising trot".


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