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Let's get started as always when we're doing the position reviews
We're going to just go over what we like
Some improvements that you can do and some exercises that you can do to help improve your riding position
And remember these are just a snapshot of what's happening at that moment
So if I see that you're a little ahead little behind your legs are slipped
That is just something that's happening at that moment
And maybe you don't always ride like that just happens that that's when the photo was taken
So here's our first photograph. One thing I like to say is that you know
She's really dressed up
Looks like she's in a horse show love those sheepskin saddle pads and looks really great and you can see here
She's got her eyes up. Okay, first of all, I
Like the way this person is
Turned out what she's wearing for her ride. She's got breeches and boots and love that
She's got a belt on if your riding pants have
Belt loops on it then you should be wearing a belt
And gloves love that too
Really like the straight back this writer has on on her position her back is straight
You can see that I put a green line here where her back is. It's Nitin straight. She's not rounded or
Oopsie, she's not rounded over her back, but she is nice and flat looking up straight ahead really like that
You can see that she's over top of the jump that the horses going over top of the jump
Like to see a little bit more of a release in her hands so that the reins are a little bit loose
You can see that her hand is following the horse's mouth, which is nice
but I'd like to see just a little bit more release and
When you're doing your release remember to push your hands right onto the neck
So this part in your hand is pushed right against is pushed right against the horse's neck
So it helps support your upper body. You can see here. There's a little bit of a floating release and that just gives a
Sloppy hand position and you need to have your upper body supported a little bit more now
let's look at her leg position her leg position looks like she's rotated her calf on to the horse so that
her toes are coming out and the back of her riding boots so that the seam of the back of a riding boot is
Getting onto the horses
sides, so that means that she's
rotating from her knee and her toes are going from straight ahead to rotating outwards and her whole leg is
Twisted outward keep the weight on your baby toe to help keep your foot
Parallel to the horse or more parallel to the horse. We want to keep the inside of your
Calf on the horse, not the back your cap
But the inside of your cap and to help do that keep the weight down into your heel and pushing the weight
equally on your on your
Ball of your foot and slightly more on the outside part of your foot to help turn your toe in
So it's not this way but slightly turned out
what's this if this is zero, and that's ninety a little bit more like about forty degrees your
That your toes stuck out too far. Keep your toes to the front. Here's your hands your hand position
You can see from looking up your hand. You have a soft hand, which we really like following hand
Your elbows are relaxed, but you have to have your hands pressed onto the neck of the horse and keep your hands level
It looks like your left hand is slightly higher
Maybe you're doing a turn. Maybe you want to influence the lead?
I don't know but it looks like you're a little bit off-balance
Your shoulders are twisted slightly and you want to keep your hands level as you're going over top of the jump
Your seat is in the
over top of the pommel of the saddle and we'd like to have your seat closer to the
Back of the saddle here that your seat is well ahead of the the horse your seat is over the pommel of the saddle
We'd like to have your seat closer to the middle of the saddle over the seat of the saddle more towards the back
at the saddle
So when you're set when your seat is over top of the pommel like this
It tells the judge that you are standing up in your stirrups, and it gets to be kind of mechanical so
You have to be able to feel the horse feel the horses foot coming and close your hip angle without
standing up in your stirrups standing up in your stirrups is
a way for riders to stay with the horse, but it's a
Oftentimes you get ahead of the horse and this is what's happening here
So here's the culprit here is that you're pinching with your knees?
Your knees are well into the saddle, which is okay, but you are pinching and rotating
So your leg is slipped back and your upper body tips forward and the pivot point is your knee
So if we were to put hold you at your knee we could turn you back and forth and that's what's happening right here
So you're pinching with your knee and you're pivoting forward onto your knee and that?
Makes your lower leg swing back and you're providing go too far forward
this is where we like to have your seat more towards the seat of the saddle more towards the cantle of the saddle and
That'll help bring your body more in balance with the horse
Once again
Beautiful eyes are up looking forward looking straight and you can really see here
That you're pinching with your knees and your lower leg is slip back
Pinching with your knees lower leg is slipped back
this your seat is well over the thumb of the saddle and your your
If we took that horse out from underneath you you'd fall and you fall right on your stomach
So we want to have the idea in your head that if you could take that horse away from you from underneath you by
Magic that you would be able to land on your feet and stay in balance with yourself as well as with the horse
Here's that all familiar straight line shoulder knee toe and you can see when we draw a straight line shoulder knee toe
that the line is
Very much
Very much as an angle
It's not almost you know that that's quite an angle
So if we were to take that voice away from underneath you that you would fall onto your stomach onto your face
So this green arrow shows?
Where we'd like to have your leg position a little bit more pushing your heels down and forward
Closer to the girth so that you can keep your balance over top of the stirrup rather than onto your knee
keep it over top of your stirrup with the
Weight down into your stirrup and into your heel rather than onto your knee. You can see that this is a pivot point
Few comments on your schooling or if this was a horse show even if it's an in-house schooling show
Safety is really important. I
Noticed on some of the jump standards that the jump cups were left on please remove the jump cups
It's just a safety thing if they're not in if there's not poles and the jump cups remove the jump cups
It's just safety and there's a lot of poles on the ground. There are
One take off rail a ground line on the take off side. That's great
but when you have the one of the middle poles
Up higher it it's just it's not correct. So remove the other
Things that aren't being used as jumps or put a filler in there rather than having these poles on the ground
Okay, so let's talk a little bit about the horse and the horses jumping
This is a nice little horse here the bay horse
He's got his knees up and you can see he's bicycling quite a bit here bass killing means
Rounded curve throughout his body using himself properly over top of the jump. So this is a nice jump
I just put a green line there we can see the bascule
Which is the worst rounding over top of this jump?
This is the little bay horse, it looks like it's getting tired. Maybe it's at the end of the day
it's nostrils are flared and he's
He's okay with his left front or she is okay with his left front, but his right front leg is getting tired
His knees are up. Okay
but he's quite loose Bellona looks like he may even
have
Knocked the jump with this foot here and let me just see if I can that's an indication and if you do
Touch a jump without knocking it down. The judge does mark that down
Because it's a sign that the horse is getting tired
It's a sign that the horse isn't quite as careful with its legs as it should be and a horse
That doesn't tick the jumps. If everything else is all the same if it has all its spots and everything is beautiful a
Horse that really has a hard knock is that maybe should have been around will play slower than a horse. That doesn't have a
tick on the jump
So what kind of exercises can this writer do
to help improve our riding position
One thing you can do and it's always a good idea to include 10 or 15 minutes of this is riding without stirrups
riding without stirrups
Every time you ride will help develop your seat and leg and balance
When you're riding your horse
It doesn't have to be a lot
You can do walk a little bit of trot when you are riding and doing your practice rides or doing a training session
Don't be afraid to ride without strips at the walk. It's very helpful
Another great exercise to do is practicing your two-point position over trot rails set up some truant rails
Send up some truck rail
twat whales
Set up some trot rail aiming on your horses stride
And go through all go through the trot rails at rising trot and at two-point trot
And it's sitting trot to help develop your seat and your legs and get your balance over top of your legs
great exercise is to have a
Two-point position putting your hands one hand behind your back on your lower back
Then your other hand on your back and your lower back
So you're going one time with?
Holding onto the reins with your right hand and one time going through the trot rails holding on the reins on your left hand
That's a very simple exercise that you can do to help balance on your own Lakes
Very important not to balance on the horse's mouth if you need to you say
Do not balance on the horse's mouth
If you find yourself falling back in the saddle
Get a neck strap so you can hold on to the horn hold on to it. So you don't fall back on the horses back
But most likely you will do is probably tip forward
So this is a very good exercise
- point
Do rising tried on the short sides at the ring to point down the long sides of the ring?
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