Sadko Günter Solinski

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Sadko Solinski on his horse "Ibis"

Sadko Günter Solinski (* 1937 in Poland ; † December 21, 2005 ) was a Swiss horse trainer, riding instructor and specialist author. His work with Camargue horses has shaped the handling of horses across Europe, especially among trail and leisure riders.

Life

Sadko Solinski came from an old Polish horse breeders family from the Lodz area . He was born in 1937 on Lake Constance. He came to Lake Constance with his family as a war refugee and grew up in Switzerland from 1944 onwards. In 1946 he began to ride with Baroness von Seydlitz and two years later he became a student of Rittmeister a. D. Carl von Zschock , under whose guidance he rode dressage, jumping and military. In 1954 he acquired the Swiss racing license. In 1957 he did his military service in the then still mounted Swiss cavalry .

“In the German riding lessons there was a lot of talk about balance, but if you used the 'tricks', as much as you would like to add a bit of balance, you lost the equally important slackness, without which I still couldn’t really feel balanced today can imagine."

- Sadko Solinkski

In 1957 he broke off his chemistry studies and traveled through Spain, Portugal and southern France. In the Camargue in the south of France he got to know the gymnastic training of young horses with 'Jan'. He began a five-year Gardian apprenticeship as a trainer and fighting bull herder. He later studied the riding principles of François Robichon de la Guérinière , Antoine de Pluvinel , Gustav Steinbrecht and others.

Between 1962 and 1963 he worked as a journalist and, among other things, investigated the question of the different ways of riding and handling horses in south-western Europe. In 1963 he returned to southern France after long stays in England and Scotland.

In 1964 Solinski became a rider and riding instructor in a trail riding center in Upper Provence, where he mainly trains young Berber stallions.

In 1968 he moved to a military center near Avignon, where he became a student of Pascal Marry . In 1972 he acquired the French silver riding badge and became France correspondent for the magazine Freizeit im Sattel in Bonn.

Mas du Malibaud

In 1975 Solinski opened the "Center International de Cavaliers de Loisirs" in the "Mas du Malibaud" 5 kilometers west of Barjac , a leisure and trail riding center for riders from all over Europe, which he ran successfully until 1997. A chronic back problem forced him to close his recreational equestrian center. From 1979 he gave regular lectures and also held courses abroad. From 1975 to 1997 countless pupils visited the riding center, who wanted to learn how to ride young horses, do gymnastic horse training up to high schools and trail riding. After the closure, it continued to receive regular guests and some new, really interested riding guests for holiday workshops and also held occasional courses abroad - the last one took place in Switzerland in summer 2004. Sadko Solinski was still teaching until a few months before his death.

Riding style

Sadko Solinski taught riding primarily by means of weight and leg aids and the constantly new, individual approach to each horse in the form of a constant dialogue between horse and rider. "Éscoutes toun chivau!" - Listen to your horse! This became visible in the loose and unintentional rider's seat of the bull herders of Southwest Europe, with the pelvis tilted back, the back muscles released, open thighs, long legs hanging loosely on the horse's body and one-handed rein control with loose reins. An essential element of the horse's training was groundwork in the Gardian and later in the Berber method (walking and working on the lunge). The result was loosened, supple horses with supple agility, a high degree of collection, erection and flexibility. Solinski used lucid dreams to specify his dressage.

Works

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Sadko Solinkski, in Freizeit im Sattel , 7/74, p. 288
  2. ^ Paul Tholey / K. Utecht: Dreaming creatively. The lucid dream as a way of life. Niedernhausen: Falkenverlag. ISBN 3880742758
personal data
SURNAME Solinski, Sadko Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss horse trainer, riding instructor and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2005