Re: Falling off of cliffs

[Jacqueline Mansfield <jaxson@leopard.com>]

>I Disagree.  I just got on my knees and had my 7 yr old daughter ride my
>back.  When she leans left, I stagger left, when she leans right I weave
>to the right.  I have to stay under her weight or I fall.  The seat bone
>theory didn't work.  
>
>When you do leg yields, I was told, lean in the direction that you want
>the horse to go.

	Erin McChesney (sp?) spoke at the MRER convention last Spring and she
talked about your horse responding to your seat bones the way a floatable
ball would if you were sitting on it in a swimming pool. If you lean to the
left the ball would shoot out from under you to the right and if you leaned
back the ball would shoot forward, and so forth. I don't remember her words
exactly but I thought it was something to the affect that you "open your
horse up" or "free your horse" to go the opposite direction of your weight.

	I don't claim to be very knowledgable in Dressage, seat bones, or etc, but
this is one of the things I remembered from her lecture.

	Jacqueline Mansfield and Winza, who prefers running with his nose fully
extended to dropping his head, being on the bit and rounding his back <sigh>