[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Foot Timing and Foot Faults

  • From: Gsdman2@xxxxxxx
  • To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:28:54 EST

 
In a message dated 2/24/2006 8:46:07 AM Central Standard Time,  
ELG440@xxxxxxx writes:
The only  person who knows what it means is Carmen.


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I did a Google search for "foot timing" and came up with a GSDCA site  page.  
_http://gsdca.org/GSDReviewed/NationalResults80_99.htm_ 
(http://gsdca.org/GSDReviewed/NationalResults80_99.htm) 
There is a general description of the phrase there, and reference to a  
Gazette article (Sept, 1984) that supposedly explains it.  
 
I have not been one of Carmen's biggest fans.  However, I think that  any 
"student of the breed" deserves a certain amount of respect for their  efforts, 
even if I disagree with them on occasion.  I have no doubt that  Carmen is a 
true student of the breed.  
 
As I understand it, "foot timing" is more than the simple coordination  
necessary to not fall over with each step.  Improved foot timing can result  
from 
gaiting practice, certainly through conditioning and very likely through  
repetitive action.  I'm not a runner, but I am a bowler.  I recently  returned 
to 
bowling after twenty-five years away.  I was carrying a 200  average when I 
gave it up to spend my time and money on showing dogs.  When  I returned last 
year, and after nine weeks of league, I was averaging a  disappointing 167.  
Because of that, I started practicing five days a week  during my lunch hour.  
I 
now average about 220 in practice, and over 200 in  league.  I can't say that 
I've learned many new things over what I already  knew 25 years ago, but now my 
approach and delivery is committed to what  bowlers call "muscle memory."  
The improvement in my balance on the  approach is why my scores are better, and 
that is the result of repetitive  practice.  The same thing happens with 
runners, and yes ... even with dogs  who's job it is to trot around a ring.  
Conditioning is a major part of all  of this too.  I'm sure I'd do even better 
if 
I'd lose 50 pounds <G>  ... but repetition has already proven its usefulness in 
my case.   Basically, there can be a difference between the "foot timing" that 
is necessary  to stay upright, and the " foot timing" that might make a dog 
the best balanced  mover in the ring.  I feel no need to rate it because a 
rating will not  change which dog is the best mover in the end, but I also see 
no 
harm in  Carmen's recognizing that it is a factor in motion. 
 
Tom Langlitz


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