Do your hips feel stiff? Do you have difficulty folding at the hips when in light seat or two-point? Do you have trouble absorbing the motion at the sitting trot? Whether you ride western or English having the ability to move at hips (not the waist) is important to an effective seat and a solid position. Here’s a quick tip you can do off and on your horse to improve your awareness of your hips.
Better Hand Postition
Do you wish you had better hands? Is your instructor always telling you to make your hands quiet? Does your horse get resistant when you ask for a turn? Here’s a quick tip to improve your hand position and contact with the horse’s mouth for both western and English riding.
Murdoch Minute No. 01: Your Wrist Connection
Do you have trouble keeping you shoulders back or staying in balance when working on the flat? Have you had trouble keeping your position when you jump? Do you use a crest release (hands on the horse’s neck) and yet still pitch forward on landing? Here’s a quick tip to improve your hand position and overall balance which you can practice while working in the arena or over fences.
Riding Accurate Circles – a simple way to improve your score.
It seems like a simple thing – riding an accurate circle. But sometimes the simple things aren’t so easy and in our training they can easily get overlooked. However riding accurate circles in your dressage test can really make a difference to your score especially at the lower levels. Twenty and ten meter circle becomes […]
Loose Hips
One of the main ideas with a variety of TTEAM exercises is to lower the horse’s head, release back and bring the hindquarters under. Methods such as lowering the head with and without the chain, raising the back, body wraps and pelvic tilts all encourage the horse to lengthen the topline (the distance from the […]
Lights, Camera, Action!
How to take the leading role in your own video production… The electronic age now has us traveling along at fax speed. Almost everyone has access to computers, microwave ovens, fax machines, videotape players and recorders. Who wants to wait for a letter when we can e-mail our friends and get an answer almost instantly? […]
