How to ride Shoulder fore/In

[Joyous70]

Can some of you lovely people explain to me, in laymans terms, the aids and how to ride shoulder fore and shoulder in. I could do with some new exercises to try with my mare to keep our schooling a little interesting.

Thank you in advance.

 

[HEM]

https://dressagetoday.com/instruction/janet-foy-how-to-ride-a-shoulder-in

... very basically I widen my hands put my inside leg back and turn my hips slightly to the inside (opening my inside hip)

 

[melbournesunrise]

I was doing this in a lesson today! My horse had never done it before, so we started by going down the centre line and leg yielding to the quarter line (so inside leg behind the girth, outside leg on the girth). Once at the quarter line, we switched the legs (inside leg on girth, outside leg behind the girth) and for reasons I'm not entirely sure I understood earlier, the horses (including my own idiotic ginger one) managed to shoulder-in down the quarter line...

 

[Littlebear]

i would start on the track using the fence to help, your shoulders and upper body need to mirror where you want your horses to go, doing it inhand first helps as you will get a feel for the angle you need to keep it on 3 tracks rather than ending up on 4. if you turn onto the long side and point your horses shoulders toward the end of the 1/4 line to start with, weight into the elbows and transferring down into the body /seat should allow that when you position your upper body for the shoulder in its enough without doing different things with your reins. Let your inside leg come back from the hip rather than from your knee and the outside aids stop the horse going in the direction you are now bending toward.
Look up and ahead to the point you are aiming the shoulders at and try not to ride too steep an angle to start with, just a few steps and build in from there x

 

[Palindrome]

Outside leg behind the girth, inside leg at the girth. Small opening rein with the inside, the outside controls the bend (tenser rein for less bend). Make sure the horse bends through the ribcage (pushing sideway with your seat) rather than just through the neck (from reins). Your shoulders follow the horse's shoulder. A 10 meter circle before shoulder in helps you get the right angle so you just have to continue in shoulder-in.