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Post by majandra on Feb 3, 2017 18:45:51 GMT
On my anglo arab, I *thought* I had his sitting trot down pat ... but given how smooth he is, I don't think I do. On my lesson horse, I bounced all over the place. I've read a lot online, but would like people to post here with tips since it's easier to ask/answer questions here rather than some webpage  |
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Post by horselady on Feb 3, 2017 19:47:19 GMT
Here is an excellent link to sit trot.. i found while teaching i tell the students to drop their stirups and to push their heels down but to keep their legs loose and to just tuck their heiny a little under,, "aim your belly button to the horses ears" and to thrust forward with each stride. and you should feel your hip left than your hip right with each stride.. the hip will be kinda forward .. almost like on a swing pushing forward by not hard.. just hard enough to keep your heiny in the saddle.. www.meredithmanor.edu/features/articles/nancy/following_the_motion_trot.asp |
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Post by Lipizzan on Feb 3, 2017 21:05:14 GMT
Horselady said it all. It took me a while to get a hang if it. On some horses it is easier on some more difficult. For me riding bareback did miracles.
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Post by horselover4life on Feb 3, 2017 22:34:24 GMT
Apply what hl said and add....
Your spine is the shock absorber...
Relax your spine and roll your lower back and hip with each footfall at a walk now once you master "follow the motion" at a walk try it at a trot...
Yup, you will bounce till you find the rhythm and "relax"....
I was taught point that bellybutton through the ears... and tuck the tush, roll the hip...
Hang the legs and just be a lump when first learning..
It is hard to really relax after you are drilled to ride with a straight back, shoulders square, eyes up & forward and heels down... 
The motion comes with practice and time astride...
Once learned though you never forget how to do this exercise..
You indeed may have the motion but not adjusted yet to a different stride length and motor pushing...again, it takes time to work out the bounce, jolt and kinks.
Only horse I can not fully sit and blend together is my sons horse, Duke....dang spring in his step is huge.
So is his motor...larger the motor the larger the impulsion and "jolt"....
Can we say...boing, boing, boing...
Then I get the rhythm and w-laa....till we make a bend, then boing. boing, boing here we go again 
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Post by Lipizzan on Feb 4, 2017 9:51:05 GMT
H4l, same with my mare Gaetana, on Slavko he floats like on clouds, sitting trot and canter is amazing on him, yet on Gaetana I have to spend few minutes to readjust to her. Still not comfortable but I manage it.
I find it most helpful as you said already, to relax my back, my pelvis and legs, It is harder for me if I grip with my thighs. Relaxation is key words for this.
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Post by majandra on Feb 4, 2017 16:51:24 GMT
Thanks guys!
I checked out that link, and watched loads of youtube once I was able to turn on my speakers.
I went out to ride and try it out, and I *might* have got it right for a few steps, but my boy wasn't acting right, so I didn't do more.
One of the videos I watched later last night showed emphasis on the rider pushing down into the stirrups with the rhythm (don't think I'm wording it right), just like my instructor had taught me to do for my canter, which has worked wonders. Does that sound right?
It really helps having different descriptions of how to do things, cause I find sometimes one clicks better than another for me. We all visualize different!
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Post by horselover4life on Feb 5, 2017 0:29:24 GMT
For me....pushing down into my stirrups as I sit a trot.. 
Don't think that works for me at all....kind of like tensing and propelling my body rigid upward instead of melting into the saddles depth.
For me to "sit the trot" I don't want to be perched on top of the saddle but to sit "deep" in the saddle....however, to use my seat bones not as a driving force but slightly bent/tipped forward and absorbing the force or impulsion..
Did that make sense? 
But "pushing down against my stirrups" no...
Try learning this without the handicap of stirrups...just feel.
Forget anything else but to feel, fell the rhythm, feel the footfalls, just feel... I can close my eyes {on a lunge-line} with my horse trotting and know which foot is hitting the ground from the slant of the spine...English, western or much easier bareback...just feel.
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