Rising Trot!!

[Bagface06]

How were you taught? inside or outside shoulder?

 

[Irishcobs]

For Diagnonals? Outside shoulder goes back, I sit.

 

[Smash]

Are you referring to diagonals?

If so, I learnt sitting when outside shoulder come back.

 

[Bex7]

Sit to the outside fore hitting.

I always struggle as have to really think about it as I honestly lack the natural "feel" for being on the incorrect diaganol

 

[Irishcobs]

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Sit to the outside fore hitting.

I always struggle as have to really think about it as I honestly lack the natural "feel" for being on the incorrect diaganol

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So did I until recently and I do still check. I find it alot easier on the horses at work, I guess because they are bigger, longer strides then my cobs.

 

[Fattie_Hattie]

I was taught inside leg back, i sit.

 

[Bex7]

LOL are we all on dodgy diaganols

It sticks in my mind as I had to repeatedly ask my instructor and i think she got sick of telling me!

 

[Bex7]

To ride on the "correct diagnol" the rider should sit as the inside hind leg hits the ground and rise as the outside hind leg hits the ground.

Aparently I am either not remebering the correct way my instructor told me or she is fibbing to me!

TBH it is not something I worry about as we mainly hack.....good job I guess

 

[PaintboxEDT]

outside shoulder back

 

[Honeypots]

outside foreleg back....

 

[zigzag]

I rise as outside shoulder goes forward

 

[Christmas_Kate]

my bottom touches the saddle as and when it feels like it

 

[Bex7]

there seems to be a mix of outside forward and back........ I guess when the outside does something we sit

 

[gemma1992]

My insytuctor teaches everyone to sit as front inside leg comes back

 

[skewbaldpony]

when the outside fore (and therefore inside hind) hit the ground (or in other words, in the case of the shoulder, comes back towards you) you sit, because the inside hind is the driving leg, and you need to have your leg on when it is on the ground. If you are in a school.
If you are out hacking, just change sometimes, or you will always sit on the same one and a) make your horse crooked and b) become unable to sit on the other diagonal yourself. If you change your whip over when you change diagonal, you will remind yourself of where you are, and also not become a one handed rider as well as a one diagonal rider. With one side of your bum bigger than the other .......

 

[jumpthemoon]

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To ride on the "correct diagnol" the rider should sit as the inside hind leg hits the ground and rise as the outside hind leg hits the ground.

Aparently I am either not remebering the correct way my instructor told me or she is fibbing to me!

TBH it is not something I worry about as we mainly hack.....good job I guess

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This is correct - it is the same thing though as sitting when the outside shoulder comes towards you - you need the inside hind underneath you and on the ground when you are sitting

 

[Bagface06]

How true! I was always told to rise as the inside shoulder went forward...... big discussion point tho?

 

[Honeypots]

Rising trot should be ridden on the outside diagonal, meaning that the rider sits as the horse's outside shoulder comes back and the inside hindleg hits the ground. This is the moment at which the horse is best able to support the rider's weight in the saddle and it also helps to ensure the horse becomes well muscled. Outside means the outside of a turn or circle. In the riding arena this is generally the side nearest the surrounding fence.

 

[hadfos]

Sit as outside fore comes back,if you sit as the inside fore comes back you will unbalance your horse especially when working on circles!

 

[Bex7]

Well that makes sense then LOL of course i should have thought the movement of the shoulder DUH!

Ido change diaganol on hacks

my previous 14 yr old hacking buddy gave me instructions to do this.

I have her to thank for my un wonky horse and the fact i keep my toes forward

 

[SecretSquirrell379]

I sit when outside fore comes back. Have to confess though that I reallly need to make sure I balance left and right up more. Naturally I always find myself on the 'left rein' rather than the right

 

[482739]

Outside leg back i sit, etc

 

[Persephone]

I was taught to rise as the inside shoulder goes forward too. I only recently learned to check though as I always get i right. No idea how though!

 

[mandy4727]

The only way I remember is my backside and the horses outside leg should be as far away from each other as possible. So therefore I rise when the outside shoulder goes forward. Works for me!!!!!!!

 

[WishfulThinker]

I was taught look for outside fore going out and rise.......I got REALLY lax with it and it was one of the 1st things I forgot. I regularly got yelled at by my instructor to check it, he always goes through a we drill of making you sit for certain bounces then you have to guess your diagonal!

I thought he was a nutter but it works and I can now feel the diagonal and ride correctly with the 1st trot stride

 

[bex1984]

I'm so glad someone's asked about diagonals, I only asked my instructor two weeks ago and I've already forgotten! I get extra confused because I can only see my pony's right shoulder, there is two much mane to see the left one!!!

Edited because I got left and right mixed up...I think I'm beyond help.