Tips please for deplacer les hanches (shoulder in??) and sitting trot, for exam!!

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Please can someone give me some good tips to help me deplacer les hanches with my horse. OK may not be the right name in English, maybe shoulder in? When the shoulder stays on the track but the hips don't. So for example to do it on the right rein, my right leg would stay on the girth and my left leg would go behind to move his hips over. I have contact with the outside rein and sponge the inside rein. All goes well in walk but when I ask for the same thing in trot, he either speeds up or canters!!! I then end up pulling too much on the outside rein and its a disaster.

How should I keep my body? Should I be square with his shoulders and should they be facing the fencing or facing on the track the direction we want to go in?

Any tips would be great, if I have any chance of getting my exam before the summer I need to get this nailed, if not will have to wait till beginning of next year for my exam.

Also any tips for sitting trot? Its fine at a gentle pace, but very springy when we speed up and have been told they will be looking for a good paced trot not too slow.

Thanks
 
Hi what you have described is quarters in (or sometimes called travers), you should be facing along the track following the direction of the horse. Try riding it off a circle so as you approach the track rather than straightening to go along the long side keep the bend generated fron the circle and put the shoulders on the track. Lunge lessons and work without stirrups are the only thing that help me relax into sitting trot. Have you tried a balance strap on the front of your saddle so you can rest a finger under it to help your balance.

You might find this link from the BD site will help on definitions for your exam. You need to scroll through it to appendix 11
 
read it but can't answer
off the top of my head, i would say she's doing ok in the walk, she can also do it on a circle (to change a bit), otherwise, outside rein taught (tendu?) and "play" with the fingers of the inside rein, outside leg at the girth to push the hindquarters in a little, she may find it "easier" to try it at a trot on a big circle at first then try it on a straight line, if he breaks into canter or speeds up, either do a "volt" and try again (however many times necessary) or try to release the outside leg a little and half halt on the outside rein..
The above is from my daughter - hope it makes sense (and please excuse the spelling, it's been a long hot day!)
 
(shoulder in is epaules en avant, deplacer les hanches is travers)

To avoid a faster trot half halt as you are just about to come out of the corner and ask for travers. To avoid the canter transition don't allow too much of your weight on your inside hip. Ideally the canter aid should be more about the inside leg while the travers/half-pass (appuyer) aid is the outside leg behind the girth, inside leg keeping the shoulder up.
 
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