lexion of Sunborn terms -- "sloggity"

While teaching yesterday it occurred to me, that I have a whole vocabulary of terms that I use as shorthand explanations to the student. I spend plenty of time initially defining them, but thought a review might be fun. The first, and one of my favorite terms, is "sloggity." It means the horse has slow hind legs and a soggy (i.e upside-down) back. You see this often when a rider has deep heels, pinching knees and/or an arching back herself. Next time you see a picture in a magazine that illustrates a lack of hind leg activity, you can almost count on the horse being sloggity. Often we value this because it looks slow, often elegant, and apparently pretty. So what's wrong with that? Well, you can't piaffe with a sloggity horse, you can't pirouette or do any good collection, let alone extension. So, when a rider looks like she's dying trying to cross the diagonal at extended trot, you can figure the horse is sloggity. When the turns on the haunches or pirrouettes stick, same thing. When the piaffe is butt-high and lacks elevation in front, etc., etc.