Lipizzans

[WordRider]

Goodafternoon! Fencing.net members I 'am a big fan of The Spanish Riding School of Vienna.

swordhumorTerrance

[restlesscheese]

Howdy! I don't quite get the meaning of the poll. Any help here?

[SFfencer]

The Spanish Riding School of Vienna is a traditional riding school for Lipizzan horses. It was established during the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1572. It was named for the Spanish horses that were, and still are, the mainstay of the riding school.

Airs above the ground
are a series of higher-level dressage maneuvers where the horse leaps above the ground

I didn't find what a passade is.

In the levade, the horse rises on his haunches to an angle of approximately 35 degrees from the ground, with both forelegs tucked up evenly, and balances in that position. At the beginning of the movement, the hind feet come under the horse's center of gravity with the hocks coming lower to the ground, so that the horse appears to sink down in back and rise in front. The position is held for a number of seconds, and then the horse quietly puts the forelegs back on the ground and proceeds at the walk, or stands at the halt.

In the courbette, the horse raises his forehand off the ground, tucks up his forelegs evenly, and then jumps forward, never allowing the forelegs to touch down, in a series of "hops". Extremely strong and talented horses can perform five or more leaps forward before having to touch down with the forelegs. It is more usual to see a series of three or four leaps.

In the capriole (meaning leap of a goat), the horse jumps from a raised position of the forehand straight up into the air, kicks out with the hind legs, and lands more or less on all four legs at the same time. It requires an enormously powerful horse to perform correctly.

a ballotade is a leap made by a horse, such as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking them out.

All of this from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dressage

[WordRider]

Goodafternoon! Fencing.net members I 'am a big fan of The Spanish Riding School of Vienna.

swordhumorTerrance

Lipizzans:In that Stallions.

espiritusaberTerrance

[TrainingDummy]

I started a thread just like this in the "My Little Pony" forum!

[OROD]

Which Air Above The Ground looks like stallion just leaped into the arms of God?

WTF... can someone translate this poll into English please?

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[lochinvar]

He's asking about horses and manouvers in dressage which are peculiar to the Spanish Riding School. The Lipazzon stallions are world famous and date from the days of the Hapsburgs.

[Black Jeebus]

It's translated into English... however I think he might have used something like Google to do it.

[WordRider]

Thanks for the replies.The correct answer is Ballotade.



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