[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Shoulder opening discussion
- From: Catherine Morton <managsd@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:12:44 -0700 (PDT)
Hi, I just wanted to send you guys a quick Thank You for having discussions on
subjects like these; I am working so hard to get a firm grasp of what correct
movement and structure is. I joined the GSDCA in 2001, and what I learn
everyday is amazing.
Recently my mentor and I started to use the Review as a way to go over each dog
piece by piece to help teach me. We write emails referring to the page number
of the dog and I give my impression, and then she (usually) corrects me :))),
but I seem to be getting better.
I usually don't have ANY time to write on the List but I do try to read most of
it, so again THANK YOU, I am ALL TOO willing to learn.
Catherine Morton
Msg: #1 in digest
From: "D.D. and Bonnie Ardoin"
Subject: Re: Shoulders opening - where are they?
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:26:59 -0500
I replied to Daleen`s post before I read Sean`s post. He said it better
then I did. D.D.
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From: "PlushPuppyOhio"
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Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:55 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Shoulders opening - where are they?
> Thank you! Watch where the foot touches ground....not how far it reaches
in mid-air. I know there is a lot more to it than that... but it's just one
way of trying to get people to see movement differently. Some dogs appear
to have their foot way out in front of their nose (when played in slow
motion.... one benefit of the National tapes) but when that dog actually
touches ground.... the foot is back behind the jaw bone somewhere in it's
neck-line.
>
> That's not a good front. How can that dog even begin to cover ground?
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> Daleen Dunphy wrote:More and more I have been
noticing ads in the Review, pics on web sites
> and/or people posting pics of their dogs gaiting showing no shoulder
opening.
>
> I am seeing dogs lifting/moving out from their elbows. I hear/read some
say
> "look at that front" only because they are seeing the dogs foot out by
> (pass) the dogs nose.
>
> Are these fronts becoming so much of the norm that people believe this to
> be correct?
>
> A couple of months ago there was a photo in the Review of a dog gaiting. I
> just had to show this pic to my son to see if he noticed it. Sure enough
> he pointed out and said " the leg is sticking out from the elbow and it
> doesn't look like the elbow has even moved". My young grasshopper is
learning
> well
>
> I know judging dogs from pics can be very hard and so much of what we see
> as in the movement depends on the second of the gait when the photo is
> taken - and I know getting the pic at the right time showing the dog
> fully opened (when they are correct) is not easy. But I sure would rather
> see the "correct" than a wrong timing of movement leaving
> people going "hmmmm".
>
> ok off my soap box
>
> Daleen
>
Catherine Morton LVT, AHT
Mana Shepherds and hobby farm
Secretary, German Shepherd Dog Club of Upstate SC
www.upstategsd.com
"Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog"
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