Re: [RC] Right-Handed Riders/Diagonal - AprJhn
Ok, I'll be different (nothing new in that...). I am right-handed and prefer the left diagonal. I have to constantly check my diagonal. Since I unconsciously post the left, I'll purposely change to the right as often as I remember. Tanna will bump me back to the left, but I'm not sure if that's because HE prefers it, or because I do and thus it's easier to carry me when I'm comfortable and probably more balanced?
However, he shows his own signs of left-hoofedness. He can really bend into a tight left turn, but he doesn't bend as well into a right-hand turn. He also prefers the left lead on the canter. (I have the hardest time getting him into the right lead, but we're working on that.) He was that way from the day I bought him. Shows how well I've been working on that right side, huh? :/
However, I do think a person's level has to do with it. Once I rode a huge hunter jumper type back at my old barn, and I had the hardest time posting on the right diagonal. Wasn't him, it was me. I also did the same thing with a little morgan-type mare. I've been working hard on my right diagonal and I think I'm more balanced than I was last year at the right diagonal, but it's still not my favorite diagonal.
April
Nashville, TN
Dbeverly4@xxxxxxx wrote:
>I think it has more to do with handedness in the rider not the horse. ?A
>right handed rider almost always prefers the right diagonal so they'll make
>the horse stronger on that side.
>
>I'm left handed and definitely prefer the left diagonal....all my horses do
>too. ?Its me not them.
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