Tongue-rolling: The myth. Some people can roll their tongue into a tube, and some people can’t. This is one of the most common traits that biology teachers use to demonstrate basic genetic principles. Alfred Sturtevant (one of the pioneers of Drosophila genetics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sturtevant)) described tongue rolling as a simple two-allele character, with the allele for rolling (usually given the symbol T or R) being dominant over the allele for non-rolling (t or r) (Sturtevan

🗣️ NO clacking teeth, NO tongue rolling, NO open mouth 🗣️ Many riders “teach” the piaffe by pushing the horse into emotional overdrive. Let’s be honest — they excite, provoke, and escalate, until the horse, overwhelmed with energy, starts shifting legs in panic-like activation. It looks like piaffe, but the price is often internal tension that no soft equipment can hide. In nature, horses step into their tendons — that highly collected, spring-loaded state — only in moments of fight, flight, o