Re: RC: Re: Up Hill or Down

[Truman Prevatt <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

In her clinics DSS teaches a method where you are standing balanced
freeing up your horse to move under you. She teaches it on the
trampolines and it really works well. As your horse books, you feel like
you are running along with it suspended above it.

T

CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 1/11/00 1:02:46 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> hn.heather@wanadoo.fr writes:
> 
> << When I go downhill at speed (with my eyes closed!) I don't lean forward but
>  I don't sit down either, I just balance in my stirrups.  If I feel I need
>  help balancing then I use one hand to hold onto the cantle of my saddle.
>  It seems to work for me but perhaps its all wrong. >>
> 
> As long as you are balanced, at least you are not hindering.  But the reason
> for sitting down and deep is to be able to use your seat and legs to help
> drive the rear legs further underneath the horse, hence helping him to
> balance better.  You don't really change whether your weight is forward or
> back by standing or sitting--only by moving yourself forward or back of
> vertical.  But if you are down, you are less "top-heavy" and more able to
> assist the horse.  A horse whose rear end is properly engaged is quite smooth
> to ride at the trot downhill (another reason why it isn't logical that
> concussion is a big deal here) so you can easily sit the trot without banging
> the horse's back.
> 
> Heidi

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Truman Prevatt
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