Ya know, there are countless ways of doctoring video and audio before posting to YouTube. My immediate reactions are: a) you might videotape a horse prancing and then add "appropriate" music for effect; and b) of course the horse knows the beat -- rhythm is innate in all creatures, probably more so, instinctively, by creatures other than humans. Julie Krueger (and you know this is "real", how?? On 4/29/07, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
SS: >What's hard to comprehend is how she was taught by Andreas. You've got to be kidding. That horse wasn't taught that, that's genes, that natural rhythm. I know the horse looks white, but it's all black soul-wise. Isn't it amazing what the Internet has made accessible to us all? What will it be like in 10, 20, 50 years? Will we all have Harvard educations just a click away? It don't seem fair. I coulda been a contender. Mike Geary Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:38 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Dancing Horse > This video is of Andreas Helgstrand and his 9 year-old mare, Matinee, at > the World Equestrian Games. It is the Musical Freestyle Dressage > competition. Watch this mare dance... she is amazing... she KNOWS where > the > beat is. > > http://beboframe.com/FlashFrame.jsp?Size=S&FlashBoxId=3309347442 > > > His skill and > patience in teaching Matinee is what I see in watching this. I don't know > where he began. I feel very deficient in my own attempts at training my > puppy. > > Stan Spiegel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html