Comments on: Teach Riders Good Balance on the Horse https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/ For those who teach and those who learn Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:52:07 +0000 hourly 1 By: Teach Horseback Riders to Use Their Head - The Riding Instructor https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/#comments/34776 Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:52:07 +0000 http://theridinginstructor.net/?p=1184#comment-34776 […] For more about balance and posture on the horse read Improve Your Posture, Improve Your Riding and Teach Riders Good Balance on the Horse. […]

]]> By: TheRidingInstructor https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/#comments/34732 Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:49:24 +0000 http://theridinginstructor.net/?p=1184#comment-34732 In reply to annaleese123.

Dear Annaleese123,
I’m not too sure how to respond to your comment, but thanks. . . Barbara

]]> By: annaleese123 https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/#comments/34729 Wed, 30 Nov 2022 22:41:09 +0000 http://theridinginstructor.net/?p=1184#comment-34729 you are amazing

]]> By: TheRidingInstructor https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/#comments/34451 Sat, 20 Jan 2018 14:39:18 +0000 http://theridinginstructor.net/?p=1184#comment-34451 In reply to Azimove.

Hi Azimove
Normally if a rider is riding hunt seat or balanced seat they will use two point at a fast canter or gallop. This frees the horse’s back, allows the rider to balance with their legs and alignment, and smoothes out the ride for both the horse and rider.
Barbara

]]> By: Azimove https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/#comments/34450 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:03:12 +0000 http://theridinginstructor.net/?p=1184#comment-34450 I wanna discuss my issue, When I am riding a horse in slow canter, I can maintain my balance, but whenever I start fast canter or gallop, I feel a lot of bumps and my balance gets completely lost, what can be its remedy??

]]> By: TheRidingInstructor https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/#comments/29227 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:48:57 +0000 http://theridinginstructor.net/?p=1184#comment-29227 In reply to Kathy B..

Kathy
Thanks! Parents need to understand that balance on the floor is entirely different than balance on a moving animal where everything is changing. Plus, wouldn’t it be great if they would actually do them at home, too! Sometimes I think parents should have a mounted lesson or two and then they would be a whole lot more sympathetic!
Keep up the good work and thanks for reading The Riding Instructor
Barbara

]]> By: Kathy B. https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/#comments/29180 Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:42:26 +0000 http://theridinginstructor.net/?p=1184#comment-29180 Love this article. Some parents wonder why I teach balance improvement exercises that they can go home and do on the ground. This article gives a great explanation as to why and I am excited to share it with parents and students, as well as adult students.

]]> By: TheRidingInstructor https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/#comments/29138 Sun, 05 Jul 2015 03:46:04 +0000 http://theridinginstructor.net/?p=1184#comment-29138 In reply to Cindy.

Thank you Cindy

]]> By: Cindy https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/#comments/29133 Sat, 04 Jul 2015 17:11:29 +0000 http://theridinginstructor.net/?p=1184#comment-29133 This is a wonderful post! Thank you so much for sharing! I have been thinking lately about how balance and posture and relaxation in horseback riding are so intimately linked you can’t really separate them but hanger to work on them altogether, and this is such a simple direct explanation of their interactions.

]]> By: Roger Hanington https://theridinginstructor.net/teach-riders-good-balance-on-the-horse/#comments/28695 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:58:35 +0000 http://theridinginstructor.net/?p=1184#comment-28695 In reply to TheRidingInstructor.

I have not noticed that it seems to be in anyway unpleasant for the horse; just another type of signal that also enables increased pressure from the calf muscles. Perhaps this is the situation which Seunig calls the seat of maximum drive (or something like that).
Regards, Roger

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