Help please - how would you describe

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Brambridge04

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about keeping you leg on and how to do it to a 14 year old girl.

She has her own pony, and has been riding a couple of years and her instructor regularly comes to out yard, and yells leg leg leg leg leg at this kid, to which she kicks crazily hard.

I tried to say just keep your leg on all the time and only squeeze/kick when need be, almost like a cuddle, but she looked at me like i was mad, and i found myself sat on a chair trying to show her how to do it, but i dont think i made sense.

Please note i am only 21 myself but am RUBBISH at explaining it in a way she can understand and i hate seeing poor pony being boots constantly or no contact at all!
 
I wouldn't.

She's got an instructor who is presumably teaching her how she needs to ride the pony to get the desired result. It might not be how I'd teach the child or train the pony but then I'm not the instructor so I'd keep out of it.
 
I'd be inclined to agree with Jemima.
But if you really want to explain it, think about it like this.
You should be "hugging the horse" with your legs, so they are "on". If you want to change pace/speed then you squeeze harder then release.
 
I'd get her on the pony to take her stirrups away and stretch her legs down and wrap them around the pony, as though she wants her toes to meet beneath his chest. Then I would use the hugging metaphor to explain squeezing. Then she just needs to think of it the same way when she has her stirrups - squeeze her lower leg together as though she wants them to meet - rather than take them away and flap against his side. But it all depends on the child and how they think ;)
 
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