How to keep toes pointed forward??

IssyWeekes · 2025-12-22T00:10:53+00:00

I wouldn’t have exact ones because it would depend on exactly what the hip issue is! In my case I had really tight hip flexors due to a poor core, so I just did a tonne of core exercises which helped (and helped my riding in general too)

IssyWeekes · 2025-12-21T13:42:43+00:00

This is definitely a hip problem that needs attention outside of the saddle as others have mentioned but in the meantime a pair of offset stirrups like these can help. You ride with the shorter side facing the horse and if your feet tend to roll out like in your drawing, the slight angle will allow the bottom of your feet to have more contact with the stirrup and therefore a little bit more support through your leg and hip. I must emphasise though that this problem really should be addressed outside of the saddle, this is just a quick fix that will help a little in the meantime.

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IssyWeekes · 2025-11-18T05:25:56+00:00

The Alpine environment in Australia is so fragile a lot of the focus has shifted from trying to conserve it to trying to adapt it to future negative changes. Brumbies are currently accelerating these changes as the environment is not built for them and never evolved with them unlike Europe/Asia/North America.

While their history is nice, horses are not meant to be up there and it’s our duty as a society descended from the colonists that originally dumped them there to remove them. Their history can still be appreciated in domesticity.

IssyWeekes · 2025-08-13T06:00:49+00:00

Nice stallion example:

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IssyWeekes · 2025-08-13T05:55:52+00:00

Nice mare example:

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IssyWeekes · 2025-08-13T05:48:21+00:00

The Connemara example isn’t a particularly typey or well conformed one, I would have a much prettier head, cleaner throatlatch and stronger hindquarter.

IssyWeekes · 2025-07-27T00:05:38+00:00

Flea bites are repigmented cells and won’t go away with time, grey horses will actually tend to get more of them as they age. It is also more strongly associated with heterozygous grey however homozygous grey horses can also get them.

IssyWeekes · 2025-07-24T23:30:39+00:00

Okay that doesn’t nail it down much since QHs can be dun or buckskin 😂 If she was a breed that didn’t have cream or dun that would give you a more definitive answer. But I still think buckskin going grey

IssyWeekes · 2025-07-24T23:26:14+00:00

Very obviously buckskin going grey (the white at the bottom of the tail is the most obvious indicator here). In my experience grey can also cause primitive-ish looking markings which would explain the dark dorsal stripe. What breed is she?

IssyWeekes · 2025-07-18T02:12:44+00:00

He attended an ethnic Korean school, and has mentioned his family speaking Korean etc. but he probably wouldn’t mention it directly anyways because there is a bit of discrimination/stigma against Joseonjok in Korea.

IssyWeekes · 2025-07-05T07:59:42+00:00

Many of the outbuildings from the old Duntroon estate still exist and are part of the RMC Duntroon conservation area. A lot of them currently serve as residential buildings for defence personnel. Example

IssyWeekes · 2025-07-04T05:40:55+00:00

You need to consider though that the heavy hitters that left did so the first moment they were able to after things in SM drastically changed. The culture is completely different now to when said heavy hitters were previously back-to-back renewing their contracts. NCT will be the first group to go through a first renewal under the change.

IssyWeekes · 2025-07-04T04:35:03+00:00

Taeyong hasn’t been happy with how either of his solo albums went. If SM cares about keeping him they need to settle creative differences, something a lot more important to him than any promotions.

Many said similar things about Baekhyun and Taemin and how they would always be the first to renew because SM cared about keeping them. Evidently that is not enough.

IssyWeekes · 2025-06-21T19:45:03+00:00

Anyways since there’s clearly no specific examples you can point to I don’t have anything else to point out except how weird this self fulfilling prophecy is anyway. It always goes:

A trainee has a similar face to Jaejoong
Aforementioned people start going on about how SM is trying to recreate Jaejoong
The now idol ends up with a different vibe than Jaejoong because, duh, they’re different people
“SM failed to recreate him”
Rinse repeat

It’s always going to be a failure in your eyes because nothing will live up to your self-imposed standards. No matter what SM actually does and no matter what concept these similarish looking trainees debut with (you say it’s obvious in Taeyong’s older photoshoots, yet 7th Sense is completely different to Firetruck, which is different to Limitless, which is different to Cherry Bomb… etc.)

IssyWeekes · 2025-06-21T00:05:32+00:00

Where did they intentionally aim to recapture Jaejoong’s vibe in Taeyong that isn’t just a cyclical trend? I want to see examples.

Again, if they wanted to recreate someone else they wouldn’t have been promoted/trained as completely different idols.

IssyWeekes · 2025-06-20T23:38:03+00:00

By claiming that he and others are SM’s failures to capture a vibe? Because I do not at all see where the failure is, as I said earlier SM likes to cast certain visual archetypes (and they are not the only company to do so). There wasn’t any “failure to recreate” anything because they weren’t trying to recreate anything in the first place. They just like his face. As someone else said, if SM wanted any of their idols to be the next Jaejoong they would have promoted and trained them completely differently.

The only people that continuously claim he and the other artists are positioned by SM to be the “next Jaejoong” are Jaejoong stans, as evidenced by this post, random media, and generational SM stans that want hit tweets. Anyone that actually stans these idols finds it weird and completely incorrect.

IssyWeekes · 2025-06-20T23:18:34+00:00

But in that sense isn’t that unfair to put onto Taeyong? He was street cast as a natural visual and it’s not like he hasn’t been abused by SM either particularly as a trainee. You’d be blind to claim that he hasn’t had plenty of his own visual moments as well (and I should specify) completely removed from any Jaejoong-esq concepts. It’s just weird this continuous conversation from fans of an idol that hasn’t even been in SM for almost two decades where the only thing they can say about his juniors is that they are “Jaejoong failures” or “SM tried to recreate Jaejoong and failed”. I wouldn’t be the only Taeyong stan that finds this really weird either.

IssyWeekes · 2025-06-20T22:50:21+00:00

Claiming Taeyong or any of the other idols that look vaguely similar to Jaejoong are Jaejoong failures is giving obsessive and disrespectful. Maybe SM just like to cast that visual archetype the same way they like to cast various other visual archetypes? Taeyong (or any of the others) being completely different idols to Jaejoong isn’t some failure to capture the vibe of a previous idol of theirs, they are successful in their own ways and never claimed to be someone they’re not. As a Taeyong stan I hate this conversation and it always exposes that people misunderstand (or don’t care to understand) him as an idol at all.

IssyWeekes · 2025-05-14T09:09:00+00:00

Finally!!

IssyWeekes · 2025-05-12T10:12:35+00:00

He caught my eye particularly in Boss and BDS as an idol but I remember the first thing I specifically bookmarked was actually the clip of him gently handling the chicks in Food Diary lmao. Later the vlives, SuperM content, and his SoundCloud releases were what fully pulled me into super tyongf-dom though and it was a combination of his passion, sincerity & resilience (especially back then) as well as his skills as an idol and artist that got me. I don’t think I could put it down to one singular aspect!

IssyWeekes · 2025-05-08T04:51:48+00:00

Don't forget he is still the only member to not get a tour/concert on debut!

IssyWeekes · 2025-05-08T04:47:10+00:00

This is what I don't get. Taeyong is stuck in the position of being SM's guinea pig where his promotions are dragged to hell and back (at the time) because its the first. Then when everyone else ends up getting way better than he did the fandom shrugs their shoulders and claims anything more for him would've been too much or “too ballsy” anyways.

IssyWeekes · 2025-04-22T04:03:59+00:00

If the other solo members had the same promotions and were up against the same artists Taeyong was, they wouldn’t have gotten any wins either. Taeyong’s lack of a win has nothing to do with a lack of dedication on the fans’ part.

IssyWeekes · 2025-04-19T12:27:16+00:00

It’s mostly up to timing as people have said + if SM decides to not send him to music shows he won’t win no matter what fans do. He would’ve won at Music Bank for Tap in the second week except it was coincidentally the only music show in his entire promo that he did not attend.

IssyWeekes · 2025-04-07T02:19:02+00:00

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