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  After another 2 weeks going into town for son and having to spend 4 hours 
waiting (mostly , at the bookstore ,either Borders or Barnes and Noble, and 
visiting 3 tack shops:whilst grinding my teeth , cause I have a horse to 
conditon for this fall, and 2 others to train!--'nother story, this son is 
going overseas in  10 days ,then gone for the summer doing mission work) I 
'll miss him, but i"ll have riding time~~
  Anyway I have been reading  All the horse books on riding and training, 
and that amounts to about 8 books I skim or read parts of , per day. (I have 
actually sent for 2) Some classical Dressage books, some centered Riding and 
  about anything that has been published in the last couple years and sold 
well.
    Again--I digress--lack of mental stability from  not riding the last 2 
weeks---The also mentioned "skating" as a way to learn your center and 
balance and hos to handle  your hip joints. . . Ta da!! I used to roller 
skate a lot and some ice skating. Makes perfect sense too. Except for the 
leaning into corners thing. But for balance and exercising those muscles!!!
   So in our 'spare time , with our 'spare money' , we can swim, skate, 
ski, walk, and balance on  those large  exercise balls, and of course 
exercise and train our horses.
   Think I'lll skip the sking, I used to play around on skis at home as a 
kid on our hill, but now--- nah, the idea of going down hill fast, with no 
half halts---and I'd rather dismount without 6 ft sticks on :0)




> From: MtnRondi@xxxxxxx
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RC]   [RC] Steep hills
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:13:45 EDT
>
> In a message dated 5/20/2004 6:53:20 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> ladurgin@xxxxxxx writes:
> You want to keep your legs under your center, with weight in them, not
> necessarily 'forward
>
> I've also had someone tell me that they ride balanced as if they were on 
> skis
> going downhill. I think it is a good comparison. There is no way you could
> ski downhill with your feet forward and your body leaning back.
>
> Bonnie
> So. Calif.

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