I decided to make today’s horses weekly a little bit different. This doesn’t focus on something specifically, rahter it is tips on all sorts of riding. These tips are from my experience and also some from the web. All of them from my experience work for me.
.N.B.! THESE TIPS WORK FOR ME, I CANNOT GUARANTEE THEY WILL ALSO WORK FOR YOU.
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Do not brace your feet and force your heels down!
That totally doesn’t work. MANY people force they heels down, more than naturally one can do. As a result, your foot will naturally slide forward, so you can put your foot in that position. Try it, even sitting in a chair, not an horse. Your heel naturally stops at a level, if you try to maintain the elbow-hip-heel imaginary line. It just cannot go. To make it go, you slide it forward, disturbing the line. So, you should leave your heel more or less level, maintaining the straight line, keeping the heels at the natural level. This will wary a little bit, per person. Our heels have shock absorbing ‘things’ or what ever you wanna call them. Bracing your feet removes that. So keeping your heels natural will remove your bounce and allow you to go with your horse.
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Keep sitting in your saddle at the trot, till your quite sure the horses outside foot is up. Then rise.
It is an easier method for diagonal checks. Peek to the side and you can see the feet better. Most of the time, I get it correct. It is even easier than the shoulder checks.
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Don’t get your horse into a canter immediately after sitting in the trot.
Rather, sit a few strides, get the rhythm. Get yourself rolling with the horse, till you’re ready for the canter. That helps in the canter, you get the rhythm quite quick and in a jiffy you are with the horse totally. With me nowadays it is just 5-6 strides, but a beginner could take longer to get rhythm. That’s no problem, recently when I started to get the rhythm late in the canter and discovered getting in the trot helps, it took me 15-20 strides. So you’re not alone!
And that is it. Quite short, I know! But yea.
See you next post 🙂
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