tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381378815481359587.post262864716125984283..comments2024-03-28T00:16:36.539-07:00Comments on Thoughtful Equestrian: The role of historyCatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04116622774529856827noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381378815481359587.post-33111032752186334792012-09-28T06:52:00.662-07:002012-09-28T06:52:00.662-07:00Changing into a dressage seat is HARD!
But what I...Changing into a dressage seat is HARD!<br /><br />But what I'm learning is - all those times it was hard to sit the trot in eq classes, or to get more canter? In a good dressage seat, it's easy!<br /><br />I've had to take classes with a biomechanics instructor (she has clinics here monthly in the cooler months), because she has the vocabulary to explain different ways to use my muscles to make me sit more correctly. I have trouble figuring out what to do with my body, so the theory of sit back and open hip angle doesn't connect - so she talks to me of bringing the points of my hips together which moves the seat bones apart to allow a deeper seat and helps turn the knees toward forward instead of splay-legged spider. She talks of pushing my ribs into my spine which gets rid of the hollow back and shifts my balance in the right place to allow the horse's movement to move my hips. From that point I can lift a seatbone to ask for canter or lighten the weight of my seatbones to ask for trot lengthenings... but DAMN, it's hard to break the habits of hunter eq! A year into working with her, and my knees want to come up, and my seat wants to rotate out behind me a bit still.Nethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08817230186352688525noreply@blogger.com