Nats_uk
Well-Known Member
As some of you may have seen I have (after a 2yr break) got a new horse. She is rising 5 and although very sweet and willing still quite green in her schooling (and I am feeling very rusty
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I am due to start having lessons in a couple of weeks but I wondered if the dressage divas could give me some exercise/schooling tips in the mean time.
My main issue is to get her to accept my legs and seat more without it meaning rush forward - her natural tendancy is to be quite short and stuffy in her stride and to just go faster or go up a gear when I try to wrap my leg round her. I want her to go forward and learn to accept the contact more - if I try to pick my hands up on her (even if I make them as relaxed as possible) she tends to lift her head up - I think she has be taught hands down in lap is how she is asked to lower her head in to a contact)
Any tips/exercises please!!
)I am due to start having lessons in a couple of weeks but I wondered if the dressage divas could give me some exercise/schooling tips in the mean time.
My main issue is to get her to accept my legs and seat more without it meaning rush forward - her natural tendancy is to be quite short and stuffy in her stride and to just go faster or go up a gear when I try to wrap my leg round her. I want her to go forward and learn to accept the contact more - if I try to pick my hands up on her (even if I make them as relaxed as possible) she tends to lift her head up - I think she has be taught hands down in lap is how she is asked to lower her head in to a contact)
Any tips/exercises please!!