Balance
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Posted
by Mara at
8/4/2009 11:12 AM PDT
on Horse Barn
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As a rider, good balance and evenness on the horse are important for various reasons. Our ability to properly influence the horse, keep our position and help to develop the horse evenly comes from having good balance and the ability to sit as equally as possible.
One of the exercises I like to use for myself and my students is as simple as dropping your stirrups. By dropping your stirrups at any gait you are able to focus on how evenly your weight is distributed on your seat bones. This exercise is perhaps most useful at the sitting trot. Very often riders tense up and brace on their stirrups in order to sit the trot and this exercise forces you to use your body to absorb the shock of the trot and sit equally around your horse.
Mara
