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HI,
Took D in field for some schooling last night and my friend took pics.
Wondered what everyone thought?
Here goes....
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Thanks for looking, getting other people to look often brings up points that we have missed
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well your wrists look a little set and your lower leg is back a bit.only noticed cos i do that.
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i tell you what i did for a while i rode with my hands too high for about a week and then let them settle down a bit in a more correct position which feels normal.

also you can try tieing something from d ring to d ring that feels a bit odd so if your hands touch it it will make you realise your hands have drifted - like a piece of fluffy material that will tickle or something that will remind you
 
He is lovely! I would say try to not let your lower leg swing back - as it's making your upper body tilt forwards a little bit. You do exacatly what i do! My instructor tells me to inagine your favoutie dressage rider and how they sit. It immedately makes you sit up straight and put your bum in the saddle!
Super horse though - you look good together.
 
Nice horse, basically good riding position.
Horse not working from behind, not in front of your leg (hence why you are moving your legs back to try to get him to react when you use them). This is tipping you forward out of your elegant position, making you stabilise in the knee. You are also trying to encourage him to soften by lowering your hands too much (God, I do all of these things!).
Once you get him in front of your leg, you won't have to try so hard, he'll soften and it'll be an even nicer picture.
Shows real potential - you make a nice partnership.
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Okay you need to relax more, your upper body is quite stiff. This is making it hard for your horse to use his back and this means he to is stiff through his body.

He is short in the back and set in his neck, however he is still trying hard for you.

In the cantering pic it is the same problem and you horse can't shift his weight back.

In the first photo your horse is working from the forehand and in the second photo he is trying hard to carry himself from the Q's but need sto be looser in the back.

Over all I'd say you are trying too hard, We unconciously do tend to do this when the camera is on us.

I'd thing that once you relax and use your leg and hands in a better postion your horse will come through better for you.

Hope that was good criticism and not nit picking

Your leg postion is also making you lean forward and thus results in that your not sitting on your seat bones. Again your horse is trying hard for you but its hard

It would be nice to see you also soften your arms and not be rigid which willhelp the contact to be more felxible. Softening your arms will help your wrists to soften and then you will find it easier to maintain a better straight line from the elbow to the bit.
 
Okay you need to relax more, your upper body is quite stiff. This is making it hard for your horse to use his back and this means he to is stiff through his body.

He is short in the back and set in his neck, however he is still trying hard for you.

In the cantering pic it is the same problem and you horse can't shift his weight back.

In the first photo your horse is working from the forehand and in the second photo he is trying hard to carry himself from the Q's but need sto be looser in the back.

Over all I'd say you are trying too hard, We unconciously do tend to do this when the camera is on us.

Your leg postion is also making you lean forward and thus results in that your not sitting on your seat bones. Again your horse is trying hard for you but its hard

It would be nice to see you also soften your arms and not be rigid which willhelp the contact to be more felxible. Softening your arms will help your wrists to soften and then you will find it easier to maintain a better straight line from the elbow to the bit.

I'd think that once you relax and use your legs and hands in a better postion your horse will come through better for you.

Hope that was good criticism and not nit picking
 
My message was posted twice as with the first one a sentence jumped so was written out of text, I tried to delete it but the stupid pooter crashed then the editing time experied. (which havinng a very limited time to edit the post seems daft to me)
 
Ditto what everyone else has said re. posture, so no point going over that again but the overall impression is that you look as though you are trying almost too hard & as far as your riding goes, your mind is one step ahead of your body!
Almost as if you know where you want to be & you are pushing him to that point mentally but are not relaxed enough to let it come of its own accord.
The end result is both D looking rather stilted & unable to 'flow' & you looking as though you are about to topple off between his ears.

If you can only manage one thing at a time, just concentrate on sitting 'in' him (as opposed to perching 'on him! lol). If your back & shoulders are correct, your arms, wrists & lower leg should follow through to a degree quite naturally.
(You'll have to make a concerted effort to turn your thumbs up though! lol)
I think you will feel the difference straightaway in his movement!

Not sure that actually made any sense at all?
D is of course, as perfect as ever!
(LBO wanted to send D a horsey mail pm to suggest a couple of good big bucks would make D's mummy think twice about her posture but I thought that was a little mean of him!)

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Hi,
Thanks for your comments, they are really helpful
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I definately think about it too much rather than just getting on with it then I try too hard to get things right
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and end up all tense and yuk
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It does make sense, JAK and it is great to have you back
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Shouldn't LBO be concentrating on his next seminar?
Although D would of loved that tip
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Thanks again, I'm off to practise
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