A Pesade like exercise is shown at the Parthenonfries, so the antik greeks must have known these exercises. I'm sure they didn't call them "Lecade" or "Pesade", Xenophon even called the trot "Trot". He just knew walk and canter.
It is hard or even impossible to tell who was the first with working in a specific equestrian exercise. Because working and describing are two different things. So who was really the first with working the pesade and levade.... who knows ? Presumably not Xenophon either. He just described riding, with all it characteristics which he valued at that time.
As far as I remember, Xenophon did mention something about elevating movements (I must check for you though - it is some years ago that I read his texts..). But if he really was the first in history who wrote about it....? Even that I can not be sure about. We are familiar with the literature of Xenophon because it simply survived history. But who knows what kind of literature also existed once, of which we are not aware of because it did not survive history and therefore did not reach us...?
And that is the written part.... We are not exactly aware of the daily practice. But it is quite likely that Xenophon was not the first to use or train these exercises.
Xenophon and his colleagues from that ancient Greek period: probably, considering his texts and those images on the ancient buildings, paintings and vases as Andreas described. But in a implemented way: Xenophon's way of riding was a practical one: for transportation (a whole day in the saddle demands a well trained, comfortable horseback) and on the battlefield. The rising of the horse had its implementation in the battlefield, for a riding cavalry officer as Xenophon was himself.
The levade/pesada as we know now is an icon from the sophisticated European way of academic riding, which was set free from its original practical purpose since the 17th century. The exercise became a piece of art.
A Pesade like exercise is shown at the Parthenonfries, so the antik greeks must have known these exercises. I'm sure they didn't call them "Lecade" or "Pesade", Xenophon even called the trot "Trot". He just knew walk and canter.
AntwortenLöschenAh oke sow Xenophon was all ready working with this concept
AntwortenLöschenBut is it that the levade ore pesade a trot ore a canter movement,
AntwortenLöschenthis is a question i got in a discussion, sow i want to know what you all say
It is hard or even impossible to tell who was the first with working in a specific equestrian exercise. Because working and describing are two different things. So who was really the first with working the pesade and levade.... who knows ? Presumably not Xenophon either. He just described riding, with all it characteristics which he valued at that time.
AntwortenLöschenAs far as I remember, Xenophon did mention something about elevating movements (I must check for you though - it is some years ago that I read his texts..). But if he really was the first in history who wrote about it....? Even that I can not be sure about. We are familiar with the literature of Xenophon because it simply survived history. But who knows what kind of literature also existed once, of which we are not aware of because it did not survive history and therefore did not reach us...?
And that is the written part.... We are not exactly aware of the daily practice. But it is quite likely that Xenophon was not the first to use or train these exercises.
Xenophon and his colleagues from that ancient Greek period: probably, considering his texts and those images on the ancient buildings, paintings and vases as Andreas described.
AntwortenLöschenBut in a implemented way: Xenophon's way of riding was a practical one: for transportation (a whole day in the saddle demands a well trained, comfortable horseback) and on the battlefield. The rising of the horse had its implementation in the battlefield, for a riding cavalry officer as Xenophon was himself.
The levade/pesada as we know now is an icon from the sophisticated European way of academic riding, which was set free from its original practical purpose since the 17th century. The exercise became a piece of art.