hi there my name is Laura and welcome to another video if it's your first time
here thank you so much for being here I really appreciate it today you're
gonna get some riding tips and the mechanics of writing and how important
it is to have those angles hip angle knee angle in your riding and if you
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don't miss out these pictures were sent in by Belen and I want to thank Belen
so much for sending these in it's excellent photos from the side . If you'd like to
have your position reviewed send me an email
thistle Ridge at hotmail.com generally overall this is a great picture of the
rider from the side and you can see from this picture here that she looks like
she's in great shape she's not interfering with the horse and the horse
is going nicely over the jump one of the big things I noticed is that there's a
great loop in the rain and the judges like to see the loop in the rain when
you're giving a release but let's get deeper into some of these things here
first thing you always notice is are their eyes up yeah this riders got
their eyes up and looking forward looking around for the next jump rope
seeing what's going on in front of her really good it's important to have your
eyes up because you can see where you're going
he's number one and it helps to keep your back flat and the rest of your body
and the line top of a jump and you can see here in
this picture that the rider does have a good flat back and her eyes are up the
judge can tell if you have your head up in your eyes up by the peak of your
helmet and if the peak of your helmet is up horizontal then that means that
you're looking up and looking straight if the peak of your helmet is down going
down this way then that means that you're looking down and that makes your
body round so keep your eyes up very good the next photograph here you can
see I've highlighted the heels of this rider
yeah sure her heels are down and we'll give her a 7 on 10 for her heels down but it
looks like one the stirrup is not on the ball of her foot it's too much got too
much toeing in the stirrup and number two her stirrups are looking a little bit
long so when you're going over jumps you should adjust your stirrup from your
flat riding position when you're riding on the flat the top of your stirrup
tread should hit the bottom of your ankle bone and when you're going over
jumps the top of your stirrup tread should hit the top of your ankle bone so
when you're going over a fence says you should shorten your stirrups a couple
holes just to keep your angles closed and it's really important to get your
angles close we're going to talk about that in the next one where we go over
this riders heel to help get your heels down do some of these exercises right
here there's an excellent exercises that you can do to help get your heels down
but also to help get your heels down put your stirrups two holes from your flat
position what you ride on the flat what your ride over fences are two
different things because we need to compress those angles in your hip and in
your knee and a your ankle to help absorb the jump and to help you stay with your
horse when you go over fences to help get your heels down and be with the
horse a little bit better think of this angle at your knee now I don't have a
protractor here with me but if you get someone does with them grab it put it on
the screen of your video here and tell me what that angle is
I kind of guessed at it and I think this angle here around the hip to the knee to
the ankle as about 140 150 and what we'd like for it to be is to be about a
hundred and fifteen degrees in shortening up your stirrup one or two
holes will help get that and you can see the difference between this position
where your knee angles a little bit open and and the next photo here where I put
it in green that it's a little bit more closed and it's necessary to have that a
little bit more closed so that you can absorb the shock it's kind of like a
shock absorber in a car or on your mountain bike that you need to have
those angles closed just a little bit more so that you can absorb the shock of
the landing of the horse and also to help you or your body stay with the
horse so if you do have a protractor in there and you can measure it great put
it in the comments below what you what you measure that angle to be I make it
to be 115 degrees just a little bit overnight though the correct stirrup
length will definitely help you with getting this angle correct looks like
your stirrups are too long so shorten um I really like this riders elbows they're
just about 90 degrees but we would like to have them a little bit closer to that
breastplate right here she's got a floating release
you can see that third her hands are not on the sides of the neck we'd like to see
the riders hands on the sides of the neck she does have a great release
there's no contact she's not interfering with the horse
I'm just getting nitpicky here and you can see that her hands are above the
neck you can see some daylight between the horse's neck and her hands coming
your hands a little bit closer keeping your elbows at that 90 degrees but
having your hands closer to the martingale strap or a breastplate just
get your shoulders back a little bit better and help you save with the horse
and you can see here that there's a lovely release right no interference
whatsoever with the horse really love that this riders got a seat over the
middle of the saddle not over the pommel of the saddle
having your seat over the seat of the saddle he'll get that lovely balance
alignment shoulder knee toe so this stuff but the horse a little bit it's
kind of difficult because he's not really jumping because the jumps are
quite small breathe in the middle of a canter stride he looks really soft and
kind and relaxed he's good as neck is rounded but he's not really pretty much
effort because it jumped is so small well we'd like to see this horse when
they're jumping kept their nice waist up a little bit more but we can't do that
unless the jumps are a little bit bigger for this horse overall this rider is in
balance with divorce really love she's got a nice release and staying
with the horse and in balance like for her to shorten dur stirrups up a couple
holes just to so that she can close that knee angle close that hip angle close
that ankle angle and stay with the horse a little bit better have her stirrups up
shorter so she can get her heels down but the stirrup on the ball of your foot
will also help out a generally great job though really nice now it's your time to
get involved send me a photo send me an email
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on and love to hear from you if you're looking for some other ideas some what
you can do in your riding take a look at these videos right here
there's some excellent ideas that you can use in your next riding session my
name is Laura that I use this stuff go hug your horse go use this stuff thanks
now bye