Ep. 52 Slingshot!
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19 Apr 202122min
Ep. 51 - Spiralling muscles, rotating pelvises, and ‘seat feet’.
Send us your feedback! Hopefully the stretch from last time leaves you feeling that you can fill out your concave side and rotate it forward, making it more sturdy. We add to this effect, and explore ...
14 Apr 202121min
Ep. 50 - Snug thighs, stirrup leathers, and a profoundly effective stretch for your concave side.
Send us your feedback! It is a challenge to create an equally snug and symmetrical ‘A frame’ with your thighs, and it’s important to ride with your stirrups level. The only exception is if you have a ...
4 Apr 202122min
Ep. 49 Seat bones, feet, and compass points.
Send us your feedback!Some experiments with seat bones - how they do and don’t move - helps to get the clarity about your underneath that then makes it easier to diagnose and find answers for your ste...
30 Mar 202124min
Ep 48. Pulling on the inside rein…
Send us your feedback! Riders pull on the inside rein again and again, even though they know they shouldn’t, and often they feel helpless about doing anything else. Left to themselves, horses tend to ...
22 Mar 202122min
Ep. 47 The turnings aids - a rampant example of deletion, distortion and generalisation.
Send us your feedback! Whilst some people seem to be blissfully ignorant of the difference between riding in each direction, others are tortured by their experience of the ‘difficult rein’. When I ask...
15 Mar 202123min
Ep. 46 The shape of the horse’s neck, and the ‘footprints in the sand’.
Send us your feedback! Some horses have long flat necks, some have much sorter and more upright (lama) necks, but in all horses the neck vertebrae make the shape, like the spout of a teapot. The curve...
8 Mar 202121min
Ep. 45 Can the hind legs of the horse push the front third up?
Send us your feedback! ‘Kick the front of the horse up’ is a traditional idea that I have rarely seen work well in practice. Following the work of Tom Myers, I compare both the human and the horse’s ...
1 Mar 202124min
