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This is a specially designed saddle that straps to a horses
head.
It allows a horse rider to ride the horse from atop the head
in either a seated position or a standing position.
The standing position will accomodate the imposition of
ski or snowboard type binding clips.
I envision horse
head riding in a Brazilian Jesus Christ
statue position from the highest point on the horse would
be exhilarating.
I believe that it would be challenging to master staying on
the horse face with rapidly changing head elevations
especially as the horse transits about uneven ground.
Vaguely related ....
horcycle
[normzone, Aug 29 2017]
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Ain't gonna work. Horses are not designed to carry much weight on their heads - this is one of the reasons why horse brains are so tiny. |
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[Max] But if you were riding the horse underwater the
water would make you somewhat buoyant and so your
weight on the horse's head wouldn't be a problem |
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//if you were riding the horse underwater // Ah, but that would require an aquatic horse. They do exist, but are tiny and have no legs. |
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Also, I'm sure that having horse-racing events
underwater would reduce the frequency of serious
injuries |
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Is fatal drowning included in the "serious injuries" statistic ? |
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Horses need to be treated with caution, especially the ones
that populate the streets of New York. Didn't Simon and
Garfunkel once write lyrics about getting a "come on from
the horse on 7th Avenue"? |
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//Horses are not designed to carry much weight on
their heads//
Horses aren't designed to carry people at all.
They need to be trained or "broken" first
Animal cruelty?
They could be trained to let people ride a top their
head and it wouldn't be no more or less cruel than
breaking a horse in the first place to let you ride on
its back. Have you seen a horse neck horse necks
are strong |
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[xen] good point, although that was only one horse |
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Do you think a pair of shafts from a cart or chariot, could
be adapted into a sort of cantilever to help the horse keep its
head up? |
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Or alternatively, some sort of gallows ... ? |
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The other problem with this is that, if a woman from Essex was riding a horse in this way, you wouldn't be able to tell which way the horse was facing. |
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//Horses aren't designed to carry people at all. They need to be trained or "broken" first Animal cruelty?// |
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Strangely horses have a reflex similar to the way an alligator is unable to close its jaw if something is resting on its snout, or the way a shark can be hypnotised by rubbing its nose.
With horses, if something is touching the underside of their bellies they can't buck. Natives here used this technique by leading wild horses either into water or snow until they can't buck any more and get used to you being on their back. A bit of positive treat reinforcement and some quality together time later... you've got the equivalent of a dog that doesn't want you to fall off its bare back, will learn knee pressure commands, and will race to you at a whistle because it wishes to please its two-legged treat-bearing herd-buddy that keeps its predators away from its young and feeds it through the winter. |
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Critters are cool and don't need to be broken to be buddies, just coexisted with. |
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Breaking a horse is a military efficiency thing, and while once necessary, is now quite sad. |
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//Horses aren't designed to carry people at all. // |
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The obvious solution is to employ elephants. Domesticated
elephants are perfectly amenable to letting humans sit on them.
They learn this when small by watching other adults. They can
also lift and manipulate large heavy objects with their trunk, and
are tiger-proof. |
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Elephants. You know it makes sense. |
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Some helium balloons to counter weight? A human featherweight ,racing at a gallop, on a horse that is as free as possible. Sounds good to me. |
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Someone has lost their mind. |
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Thank you for the horse-lore, [2fries]. |
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// helium balloons to counter weight? // |
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Brilliant... apart from the huge amount of aerodynamic drag (even from a streamlined envelope), and the marked lack of downforce keeping the rider attached to the horse... |
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There are other snags, of course, but we've just listed a couple of the more fundamental ones for now. |
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It's all force vectors, just lean more into the speed. |
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// It's all force vectors, // |
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// just lean more into the speed. // |
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How will that stop you flying off, if there is no net downforce ? |
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Isn't the idea a head saddle of some sort? Usually with stirrups. |
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