[baroqueNheart]

Shoulders like a queen,
Hips like a whore.

[Dharma]

LOL
One of my favorites - if you find yourself struggling to ..uh..communicate effectively with your horse:
"Dressage is an art....not a martial art!"

[Sunsets]

Regarding an, um, enthusaistic response to a leg cue:

"It's OK, at least she's in front of your leg!!!!"

[runnyjump]

Shoulders like a queen,
Hips like a whore.

I am so using this!

[mbm]

but wont that get riders hula-ing their hips instead of absorbing the motion?

[lovey1121]

Umm, hula hoop is round and round. Canoeing isnt.

[Petstorejunkie]

Riders shouldn't have a canoeing motion either.

[cnm161]

But you do need that looseness through the hips. If this imagery helps you get there, more power to ya!

[Velvet]

I'm guessing the OP quote was said by a sexist pig of a man.

[2ndyrgal]

do try to get a sense of humor this year.

Most of us not only understood, we got a chuckle.

[Velvet]

I've heard too many of those quotes from older, top trainers. It's not funny to me. I have a sense of humor, that's just sexist crap from a man that has no respect for women. Not enough to use the correct terms, anyway.

[2ndyrgal]

Because back then there wasn't anything considered wrong or rude about it.

I've heard just as bad or worse from women trainers. One of my former trainers had a male, homosexual student who she regularly yelled "t*tts out" at. He'd just laugh and sit up straighter.


I think that crude physical references either bother you or they don't. I don't think that assuming that was first coined by a man was fair, it likely wasn't.

Ever read those trashy bodice-ripper novels by the lady authors? Talk about sexist, Jeesh.

You should hear female dance coaches talk.

[baroqueNheart]

I actually read it on tumblr so I can't take credit for it. Not only is it funny but it's true. I had a trainer that used to tell me to "be seductive!"

[arlosmine]

From a German trainer (female) a million years ago at one of the Violet Hopkins intructor's seminars. While riding Tempi Changes in loafers when she hopped on to demonstrate: "girls, point your nipples East and West". I loved it, and have used it at times.

[hoopoe]

I have recalled the happy TaTa quote many a time

It is actually more core correct that "get your shoulders back"

Though the shoulder like a queen hips like a whore could also apply to the horse, particularly in the walk