Your worst habbits

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What are your worst habbits when you riding.

Mine is my hands moving slightly in rising trot. My hands are perfectly still in sitting trot. Grrr. I am finding it really hard to break this habbit as I am not aware that I am doing it.

My other bad habbit is looking down but I am getting better with this.
 
I have a very bad tendency to tilt forward in my upper body. My lower body (feet, legs and hips) are perfect. My upper body just ruins it.

I also hang onto the left rein and get quite tense with my arm.
 
My lower legs being in the wrong place on certain horses, particularly on the flat. They aren't usually so much of a problem when I'm jumping. And definitely not sitting up straight - in fact, I didn't understand for ages what my instructor meant when she was telling me to sit up tall until one day she poked me in the small of the back and I saw what she meant! :p Now that I'm conscious of it though, I do try to make sure I'm sitting up.
 
I lean forwards, I am slightly squint to the right, I turn my toes out, I ride in a hunting seat.

And that's just the start!

Heaven help me the next time I attempt to go for a ridng lesson ...
 
I sit like a sack of potatoes... I don't realise I'm doing it. I honestly believe I'm straight... Until I look in mirrors if I have a lesson then I get what instructors are moaning at me for. In my defence I have a medical condition and I'm too flexible, I think my back may be partially made of dough... I don't have the correct posture at anytime of dày, riding, walking, most likely sleeping... I'm trying to work on it, but when jumping I sit better... Odd... Also everything aches when I have te correct posture. Double odd.

And when I go into canter I have one hand that moves sideways slightly, think its my right hand, no matter what rein... Once again I'm not aware I'm doing it... Trying to work on that one too, and having slightly more luck than the position thing...
 
Doing flatwork I look down - been trying to break the habit since I was 13 - wish someone would invent something that attached to my hat and made a noise to moment my head tilted forward!!!!!

Jumping I have a habit of tightening through my hips - not sure how the hell I'll cure that one!!!!
 
looking down (something i started doing when i because obsessed with being on the correct diagonal)

sitting like im in an arm chair (something that happens when riding bareback for over a year)

leaning forward into canter transitions (too much standing in stirrups cantering :o and also again from looking down)
 
Drawing my legs up when I go into canter :( I got into the habit when I was learning to canter and it's hard to break. Not a problem when I don't have stirrups... Can I blame the equipment :D;)
 
Reins too long so I end up with my hands tucked into my crotch to take a contact. Classical trained instructor told me that I looked like a toddler that needs a wee!!
 
Supertrooper said:
Big ben - my instructor often asks if I'm still alive :-)
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LOL, it's a skill I tell you.

For the looking down thing, I remember the good old days of having a cigarette shoved in your mouth, with a ring hanging on it and being dared to lose it during the course of a lesson.

Maybe a pencil and a polo mint would be a PC modern alternative, I'm going to try it out:D
 
''Doing flatwork I look down - been trying to break the habit since I was 13 - wish someone would invent something that attached to my hat and made a noise to moment my head tilted forward!!!!!'' I would need that too. Please invent one.

The problem with the hand movement is that I am not aware I am doing it which is so frustrating. I cringe when I watch videos of my riding. The funny thing is when I ride my other horse I don't do it it is just with the ginger one I do it. :(
 
I do I funny thing with my hands when I jump. Like my thumbs are at right angles and touch each other... It's hard to explain! I try really hard not to do it... And I know if we ever have an incident jumping it'll be at least 2 dislocated thumbs!
 
Looking down when jumping! I have to look at the fence to judge when my horse is going to take off. She has a habit of leaving strides out. But my trainer is working on this so I'm getting better.

Not sitting before rising trot or before walking. I badly damaged my spine years ago and couldn't sit to a trot (I wasn't aloud any jarring of the spine) so got into a habit of rising straight away and standing when going into walk. My back doesn't hurt any more so I really don't have an excuse. Funnily it was never a problem in canter.
 
Scrunching my right shoulder sort of up and forwards
Bringing my lower legs back instead of in to use them
Tipping forward at time of panic
Grabbing the reins at times of panic
Chucking the reins away when I ask for canter
Absolute inability to just sit down in the saddle
Absolute inability to actually relax at any point, even when not panicking
Inability to keep hands closed round the reins
Inability to sit up straight
No sitting for transitions - like Irishcobs, I think I got out of the habit when I had a ruptured disc
A peculiar middle part that sort of wallows forward and backward
And when I try to encourage stretch in a free walk, I keep my arms up and bend my hands down at a ninety degree angle and wiggle the reins. This technique is particularly striking when wearing pale gloves. I have photographic evidence of dressage tests to prove it.
 
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