Left leg/foot problem

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I am new to the forum and wonder if you could help me with a little problem that has developed recently. I have ridden for many years as a happy hacker but having recently bought a new (relatively unschooled) horse thought I would give myself the goal of trying a prelim next year. So I am schooling him and having lessons and feel that generally I am making progress. Recently though I have noticed that in trot my left foot tries to escape from the stirrup so I shortened the stirrups but that seems to make no difference. I have never had this problem before and can only think that I am tensing up my leg which then shortens it. I know that I have a tendency to lean forward a little in the saddle and I do get nervous occasionally. If anyone has any ideas of how I can overcome this I would be grateful!
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Try some no stirup work this will get you to deepen your seat and should make you more stable and move less in the saddle.
 
i have a weird thing going on with only one of my feet as weel - my instructer says i do this random movement with my left foot but only wen on the left rein - very odd - but def work without stirrups or even without a saddle but make sure have instructer with you
 
The left foot tends to come out of the saddle if the weight is not even in the seatbones, most people are right side dominant and the right hip sits lower than the left so the right leg will hang down the saddle and sit in the stirrup ok but the left thigh will grip to try to keep the seat level in turn lifting the heel and tending to make the foot come out of the stirrup.

With regard to it only happening on the left rein it's because you are probably trying to put more weight down you left stirrup to straighten yourself, by leaning in, which will push you right hip even more to the right and make your left leg lift even more.

You need to think about feeling your seatbones evenly and when turning point your outside hip around the turn and that will keep your weight down the inside leg, rather than lean around the turn as that will push your weight to the outside.

Hope that makes sense
 
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