Seat/weight Aids in leg yield?

[Lissie2]

I know generally people say weight the inside seat bone to give horse space to move into(along with other aids) however this seems to not work for my horse. He responds MUCH better if I weight the outside seat bone and sort of use this to pull him over?
What do you guys do with your seat bones? X

 

[VioletStripe]

I put weight into the inside seatbone...

It is very much horses for courses, but I found that teaching him to really move off my leg worked best.

Lots of groundwork, reinforcing that he would have to move off pressure from that side, and then practicing turn on the forehand on board. It really showed him that I expect him to move from the pressure of my leg - and to encourage, I used open rein on the side that I was asking for.
The leg asking for the yield squeezes against the girth, along with that seatbone to further weight it, while the outside leg is behind the girth and adding slight pressure to keep forward movement.

In my experience, the weight being put into the outside (the side they are yielding towards, anyway) seatbone just causes them to collapse to the outside...as opposed to carrying themselves on the two tracks in a controlled manner, moving to the outside away from the inside leg, while maintaining forward momentum.

 

[Mince Pie]

I put weight into the inside seatbone...

It is very much horses for courses, but I found that teaching him to really move off my leg worked best.

Lots of groundwork, reinforcing that he would have to move off pressure from that side, and then practicing turn on the forehand on board. It really showed him that I expect him to move from the pressure of my leg - and to encourage, I used open rein on the side that I was asking for.
The leg asking for the yield squeezes against the girth, along with that seatbone to further weight it, while the outside leg is behind the girth and adding slight pressure to keep forward movement.

In my experience, the weight being put into the outside (the side they are yielding towards, anyway) seatbone just causes them to collapse to the outside...as opposed to carrying themselves on the two tracks in a controlled manner, moving to the outside away from the inside leg, while maintaining forward momentum.

Presumably it's the opposite for half pass, the outside leg on the girth, weight on outside seatbone and inside leg behind the girth yo move the hind quarters over?

 

[milliepops]

Presumably it's the opposite for half pass, the outside leg on the girth, weight on outside seatbone and inside leg behind the girth yo move the hind quarters over?

For half pass (and for me, leg yield also) you should sit towards the direction of travel.
I find the descriptions of inside /outside in your post confusing, in half pass to me the inside is the side you are moving towards. Horse bent around that leg, inside leg on the girth, rider sitting slightly (slightly! ) towards the inside, hands towards the inside, inside leg and outside rein creating the bend and the whole combination plus a little outside leg creating the forewards sideways motion.

 

[milliepops]

Had a light bulb moment when we first got that 'oh it's all about the inside leg/seat' feeling. Then you can encourage the horse to come with you. I've seen the difference when other riders get it too. Pushing and shoving with the outside aids and pulling with the inside rein in half pass doesn't produce the lovely flowing light movement , even if you can still get the bend and sideways.

 

[ihatework]

For half pass (and for me, leg yield also) you should sit towards the direction of travel.
I find the descriptions of inside /outside in your post confusing, in half pass to me the inside is the side you are moving towards. Horse bent around that leg, inside leg on the girth, rider sitting slightly (slightly! ) towards the inside, hands towards the inside, inside leg and outside rein creating the bend and the whole combination plus a little outside leg creating the forewards sideways motion.

Half pass is most definitely weighting the inside seatbone as Millipops describes.

I think leg yield creates more variation in responses though. As it's not really an engaging exercise you could argue weight should be even across seatbones. Invariably it's not always! Id probably not be weighting my seatbone in the direction of travel though but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm doing it right!!