09/21/2025
What next?
Our great teachers are aging, and with them is slipping away centuries of knowledge.
We are lucky enough to have classical texts, cavalry manuals, books and thoughts laid out by their teachers before. But these manuals and texts don’t come with years of feel taught - it’s pretty hard to read the words and enact them without a masterful hand to shape you along with it.
Karl Mikolka wrote in a letter once that in the span of 44 years he had acquired and kept five serious students that he considered “torch bearers.”
Many of these people, these best students of masters, have quiet lives. No website, little presence. You hear about them from those who knew them and can confirm their presence in the SRS, or Neindorff’s school and so on - but a google search turns up practically nothing.
What happens in a few more decades?
In reading these texts, my lessons come full circle, and concepts come to life for me. But I really don’t know how one could navigate the texts without a hand saying softly here, sit over there, straighten here- release, release, release.
Who will give the next generation these lessons of centuries old information?
This is something that bothers me considerably as I consider my own opportunities : my teacher spent decades under a master, and years in a school hall. Where are our school halls? Who has horses capable of high collection for students to learn and feel on? And how can we produce these without examples not just to see but to feel and experience and absorb as part of our being? How can we teach two dimensional text without that third dimension of experience and feel?
I don’t have any answers-
Just concerns, and some curiosity for the future
