[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Specialty vs AB, perception

  • From: "robert dir" <dir@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <dfritsche@xxxxxxxxx>, <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 22:36:16 -0500

Dave,
WOW--how correct with this observation!  Sandi
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From: "David Fritsche" <dfritsche@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 10:16 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Specialty vs AB, perception


> > Her observations were intereseting.  She was appalled at the
> > "crippled" dogs
> > she saw at the Specialty.  She could not believe the dogs walking on
> > their
> > hocks and the flapping/paddling front feet.  > Laura Thomas
>
> Laura, we have a friend who raises Irish Wolf Hounds, judges her own
> breed, plus several others and was wanting to expand into GSD's, so we
> invited her to a show and tried to explain what she was seeing to her.
> That is precisely my perspective - The GSD has to be explained,
> because it is unlike any other breed.
>     * It stands different
>     * It moves different
>     * It has the greatest range of motion, both front & rear of any
> breed.
>     * It may move more like a cat than any other breed.
>
> At the show our friend was going on about how we have ruined the
> breed, made them cripples, "see, they walk on their hocks", etc.,
> etc.. the same old lines. So, we started with the simple analogy of
> the pendulum swing, asking which stroke will propel the dog further, a
> short, broken stride of one that gets up under in the rear and opens
> well behind the dog without kicking up. After much explanation and
> observation, she saw what I was saying. Then we took her out on the
> show grounds and handed her our girl, rather extreme - told him to
> stay and walked away 100 ft. or so and then called her. He jerked her
> off her feet, broke the swivel, and came to me. She was then a
> believer.....
>
> When you see the proper powerful movement of the GSD and understand
> what it is, it is a beautiful thing. When you see it as a critic, your
> reality is warped into seeing something so different that it can only
> be described as crippled. It is not really what you see, but the frame
> of reference through which you see it. Reality is interpretive!
> Unfortunately!!! Appreciation of the proper GSD movement is an
> acquired education.
>
> No, I am not justifying lift in front, moving from the elbow in front,
> locked hocks in the rear, etc.... I do not like that either. But the
> general picture of the GSD is largely misunderstood by the novice, the
> untrained, the import enthusiast and sometimes the judge. <G>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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