Sanguine
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Getting back into horses and wanna see see others say! What riding advice clicked for you? Whether it be a certain discipline scenario or general advice.
For me, jumping is 90% flatwork!
For me, jumping is 90% flatwork!
Riding advicd that made it all click for you?
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Northern Hare
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For me it was the descriptions and diagrams in Molly Sivewright's Thinking Riding Book 2 - the yellow one. It helped so much to understand the positioning of horse and rider for lateral work.
nagblagger
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Relax and don't look down or that's where you will end up.
(do whatever you enjoy)
(do whatever you enjoy)
rabatsa
Confuddled
Smile, with all four cheeks.
thefarsideofthefield
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Keep the horse between yourself and the ground .
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
Look where you want to go.
VRIN
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Hands wide, hands low
TwyfordM
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Heels down, eyes up ?
SpotsandBays
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A forward horse usually needs more leg, and a lazier horse needs less leg
EngageDressage
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Ride the horse you’ve actually got today, not the one you wanted when you got on! ?
Starzaan
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Pammy Hutton used to tell me to ‘ride a dressage test between every fence’ when jumping.
And ‘the best riders are those who accept that almost all issues are rider error’.
And ‘the best riders are those who accept that almost all issues are rider error’.
Iznurgle
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I feel like I want more explanation!
rabatsa
Confuddled
Do not tense your bottom.
Goldenstar
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Hot horse leg on lazy horse leg off
ihatework
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Really??
One of my breakthroughs in feeling was when I really understood how to use my elbow and carry my hands up and forwards!
JackFrost
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Instructor's response to a friend in the lesson who said 'I don't do (can't remember what) because I'm no good at it' -
You don't get good at something by avoiding it.
You don't get good at something by avoiding it.
ester
Not slacking multitasking
outside rein!
and not blocking with my legs.
and not blocking with my legs.
ester
Not slacking multitasking
I'd agree with that one too.
mini_b
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how? Think all 4 of mine grimace ?
Jenko109
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I have an awful lower leg.
I was once told to squeeze my thighs around the horse. As soon as I do this, I have so much better control of my lower leg!
I dont do it though because I'm lazy and it takes effort to sit up straight and wrap yourself around the horse.
I was once told to squeeze my thighs around the horse. As soon as I do this, I have so much better control of my lower leg!
I dont do it though because I'm lazy and it takes effort to sit up straight and wrap yourself around the horse.
Palindrome
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By closing your inside rein you are blocking the horse's shoulder (in the trot to canter transition).
Skib
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For me Mark Rashid suggesting riders could change the speed of the gait or transition up and down by thinking the rhythm of the footfall.
It is clear that just thinking what you want the horse to do, communicates with the horse through ones seat and through ones hands on the reins. But there is almost no cue visible.
I was so impressed by watching Rashid that I went back to my RS hack mare and applied everything I had seen to her and it worked. Like magic. It worked on my lesson horse too.
Rashid much later told me he was surprised but I guess the thing was that I was still a novice rider. I didnt yet know and was possibly incapable of doing things the proper way, and all his suggestions fell on fertile ground.
It is clear that just thinking what you want the horse to do, communicates with the horse through ones seat and through ones hands on the reins. But there is almost no cue visible.
I was so impressed by watching Rashid that I went back to my RS hack mare and applied everything I had seen to her and it worked. Like magic. It worked on my lesson horse too.
Rashid much later told me he was surprised but I guess the thing was that I was still a novice rider. I didnt yet know and was possibly incapable of doing things the proper way, and all his suggestions fell on fertile ground.
Cob Life
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If you just use leg without having a rein contact its like trying to fill a bath with no plug.
so simple
the other piece I use a lot is comes from when someone asked Warwick Schiller if he gets nervous. His response was if he’s nervous then he hasn’t done the steps before correctly and they need to be revisited. i use this a lot, if I’m nervous asking for a canter transition I ask why. Is my horse not working into the bridle? Falling out of one shoulder?
so simple
the other piece I use a lot is comes from when someone asked Warwick Schiller if he gets nervous. His response was if he’s nervous then he hasn’t done the steps before correctly and they need to be revisited. i use this a lot, if I’m nervous asking for a canter transition I ask why. Is my horse not working into the bridle? Falling out of one shoulder?
ponynutz
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I know this confuses a lot of people but inside leg outside rein really made it click for me for some reason.
Squeak
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Someone on here quoted, I think it was Geoff Billington, that you're never more than half a stride out when jumping.
For some reason it just clicked and took away my increasing over obsessing of striding and take off spots so that I became more focused on the canter, rhythm, balance, turns, straightness etc. and suddenly with those improvements and increased positivity those half strides really haven't mattered so much.
For some reason it just clicked and took away my increasing over obsessing of striding and take off spots so that I became more focused on the canter, rhythm, balance, turns, straightness etc. and suddenly with those improvements and increased positivity those half strides really haven't mattered so much.
dogatemysalad
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Stop thinking, ride like a six year old.
I'd actually go further than that having watched my two year doing his first sitting trot. The child had no tension in his body, he instinctively moved along with the pony. The two moved as one. He had no preconceived ideas about what he should be doing, he just felt it.
I'd actually go further than that having watched my two year doing his first sitting trot. The child had no tension in his body, he instinctively moved along with the pony. The two moved as one. He had no preconceived ideas about what he should be doing, he just felt it.
scats
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Becoming aware of the horses shoulders. Once I recognised whether a horse was loading a shoulder, the importance of turning them from the shoulder etc, it was like a little piece to a jigsaw puzzle.
luckyoldme
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All the best riders have fallen off
I realised that if falling off made someone a good rider I must be amazing .
I realised that if falling off made someone a good rider I must be amazing .
Spotherisk
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Breath out as you ask for canter.
Allow your horse to move under you when you start your ride, don’t hang onto his head and niggle, just get walking, allow him to swing along, to warm up.
Allow your horse to move under you when you start your ride, don’t hang onto his head and niggle, just get walking, allow him to swing along, to warm up.
Red-1
I used to be decisive, now I'm not so sure...
Your hands are like a steadicam. For some reason, that visualisation brought me to my first time I could carry my hands up and forwards but still in tune.
To dial in the next movement, or 'share the plan' before then giving the cue to execute it. So, they know what the next movement is ( e.g.dressage) or direction to turn (e.g. jumping) but know to wait for the cue to actually do the movement.
To make the right thing easy.
To spend time rubbing them.
To give the destination as well as the speed and direction.
My own was in response to someone telling me that I don't train horses, I simply bore them to death. I realised that if it looks boring to an outsider, I'm probably doing it right!
My own again, to not get on any horse that doesn't want to be mounted. Nope, start helping the horse until he wants you to get on. Usually takes just one session with a problem horse.
Oooh, when the horse starts to think of doing the right thing (jump a ditch/go in the horsebox or whatever) that is NOT the time to redouble your efforts. Much as you want 'it' to happen, that is the exact time to back off.
To dial in the next movement, or 'share the plan' before then giving the cue to execute it. So, they know what the next movement is ( e.g.dressage) or direction to turn (e.g. jumping) but know to wait for the cue to actually do the movement.
To make the right thing easy.
To spend time rubbing them.
To give the destination as well as the speed and direction.
My own was in response to someone telling me that I don't train horses, I simply bore them to death. I realised that if it looks boring to an outsider, I'm probably doing it right!
My own again, to not get on any horse that doesn't want to be mounted. Nope, start helping the horse until he wants you to get on. Usually takes just one session with a problem horse.
Oooh, when the horse starts to think of doing the right thing (jump a ditch/go in the horsebox or whatever) that is NOT the time to redouble your efforts. Much as you want 'it' to happen, that is the exact time to back off.