Rider Biomechanics: Find your Unmovable Frame to Develop a more Effective Seat
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2024
- Erica Poseley is a dressage rider and seat biomechanics expert with years of experience and training. For more information visit her website www.gotseat.com/ or contact her at erica@gotseat.com or 831-206-9613. Erica has trained in Germany as well as with Mary Wanless and is a certified Ride With Your Mind Coach. While Erica's forte is classical dressage instruction, riders of all disciplines, from eventing to trail riding can benefit from her instruction and clinics. Riders will see the difference a correct seat can make, resulting in a more effective ride and happier horse. Learn how to help your horse develop a solid harmonious connection to the bit. Improve your sitting trot, work on or off the lunge line. Remote Video Consultations are now available! See website for details....Erica hopes you enjoy her second video on how finding your unmovable frame can help you be a more effective rider and better partner with your horse.
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Years ago, I taught my husband to ride after telling him that he would be using the same postures and dynamics of core strength he used in his decades of Tai Chi practice. He never though he'd like horses but he ended up loving them and riding. Too bad severe arthritis made him give it up. Loved this little video.
I have been riding RWYM for 5 years now and im only 18 so many years to go :) its amazing and im fortunate to have a foster mum as a rwym instructor, olivia pollard, and to have visited overdale :)
I love this woman I could watch her lessons all day, would die to have just one lesson with her :(
instaBlaster.
Starting to ride at 47 it's a challenge, but I wanted to do it. I never have horses before and now I love horses with all my heart. Your video seems very helpful ill try the horse stance tomorrow. Thanks Sofia
Midlife rider as well! Haven’t been on a horse in 30 years.. but contrary to a bicycle, it isn’t just like riding a bike and you remember. I have muscle memory in my brain but my seat.. ehh not so much… but I too have been bitten once more by the horse bug. I hope you have a long and wonderful journey. Horses are truly my happiness and keep me aligned with being present at the moment. Good luck and happy Trails. 😊
Id give anything to train with her!! I do ride western, but this is what I NEEDED to become more stable in the saddle! I was always told legs on the girth, and I can totally see now why I dont feel stable in that position. Saturday, I will be putting what I was able to learn here to use, and see how much better I can post! THANK YOU for posting this!!
I am a second degree black belt in martial arts and it has helped me with riding so much!
You are a really bada** woman and an inspiration! Watching that tall guy try to push you over with your unmovable frame was amazing.
You are the best dressage teacher i've ever seen. Really good to see you working with your students ^^
I love that you connect martial arts with riding. To me, riders are essentially gymnasts on horseback.
,everyone, teaches us to lean back in the saddle and pull the reigns . I'm gonna listen to .this lady she is fantastic.
+noel byrne :) not everyone. Hope you found a better coach since you posted this :)
To lean back yes but not to pull
Thank you so much for posting these videos! As a young dressage rider I really appreciate these! Very informational and easy for me to understand.
now every time i have issues about putting my legs forward i will watch this video!! thank you so much this helped a lot!!
I can't stop to love your class. I watch your lesson everyday. It's really help me a lot.
Big thank you. My teacher.
this video has helped me so much! i have been pulling back the wrong way wehn asking for a halt and this has helped me change this thank u so much!
Excellent! i am a martial art student and now i am learning horse riding. I hardly have time to ride and one in few months i go out of town to take my lessons..,it is very difficult to learn but i don't have choice. Hence, i keep watching such videos and i came across this most valuable video which i can very well relate to! thank you so much...i understood what you mean by having a very solid posture which moves with the horse, thanks!
I love Erica. I would love to spend time with her. Her compassion for the horse and rider are heartfelt through a video. Can you imagine being with her in person. Well done, Erica. You are blessed and thank you for blessing us! LP
I get very similar coaching :) It really makes the difference between being just perched on the horse and really riding with a connection through your seat and allowing the horse to do its job without you blocking them! . My lesson mantra at the minute is strong core/strong inner thigh! If only my body would do what its told more often! Its tough work! But totally worth it to see the results with my happy willing mare :) Thank you for sharing this wonderful video. You are a fantastic coach :)
To find this on youtube has made my day. And my horse's for his days to come. Thank you Erica, Julie and the lovely aged mare Quest. Greetings from the Netherlands.
A wonderful rider and a martial artist!!! That is called unstoppable!!!! Video is awesome!! Thank you
Thank you for this video and explaining the posture. I've been riding for 17 yrs but mostly bareback and on trails. I have taken a few dressage and equestrian lessons and I could not for the life of me figure out the stance. This is perfect, explained it absolutely perfect. Thank you again!!!
A great summary of how and why your core is so important in riding and developing an independent seat....
This is such a helpful video. Even still at pony club instructors try to enforce the leaning back to halt nonsese. I'm almost 20 and been at pony club since I was 7, and that aspect has never changed (same goes with the heel/hip posture). I will certainly be forwarding your video on to others. I've never heard it explained and demonstrated in such a relevant way.
Hello, like can I come out and live with you over the summer! The way you explain recommendations is so easy to understand and actually true! This reminds me a lot of positions used in yoga. Learnt so much from your two videos please upload more!!!!
Thank you for giving us such a clear explanation! I've just started helping teach beginner lessons for a local college group. While I'm reasonably skilled working with students and horses on the ground (having worked as a professional groom in eventing), I'm not an accomplished teacher by any means. I've been racking my brain for a way to help start our new riders out with a good, quiet seat, and this is excellent advice!
Great video. Quest, the 24yr mare is in excellent condition. Well done to her caring owner. Thank you Erica.
You're an amazing teacher! It saddens me to think of all those years in training...riding so many frustrating hours with so little learning. Now, having gotten older, I wonder if I would be able to return to something desperately missed and have my body do it!
did you ever go back?
I've been riding my entire life and this is the best instruction I've ever received.
Thank you so much for the nice feedback.
Thankyou!! This really helped! After my last riding accident I started putting my legs forward to try and "jam" myself into the saddle...for security...this video has helped me to move my legs back underneath me. Can't wait to watch more of your videos!
Your great information is invaluable...i wish every rider ,trainer , coach would follow your practical advise . Very nicely done !!! Make more videos Erica ! cheers from Canada
OMG I am so blessed to have found this video! I've been doing martial arts for some years but just began doing dressage. This puts things into perspective and makes them a hell of a lot easier to understand! Thanks :)
Ah ha! Precisely what I was looking for. I have made a transition from teaching saddle seat on high headed horses to teaching beginner hunter seat. There are major differences in biomechanics but I couldn't quite figure out how to translate. This will help all my beginners a lot!
Wow inspiring video from an inspirational woman! It's so important to stay active and I bet your Karate kicks are lethal, because riders have the most powerful legs I've ever seen.
really interesting! i am preparing for British Horse Society exams this month and been trying my best to improve my seat in preparation for the riding part of the exam. one of my worst habits is overuse of my hands and i also have a terrible habit of letting my lower leg come up and/ or forward which causes me to lose my stirrup. i cant wait to try the "unmoveable position" and hope it will work when im teaching students myself one day! :)
This is a great video, my horse thinks as well, he wants to thank you for my better seat
Love this video, really helps with understanding why the horse is not doing what the rider wants, 'cause of conflicting messages!!!
I love the way you explain and demonstrate these points. I would love to see more videos from you, very insightful. Thanks!
This was exactly what I needed after a 32 riding hiatus! I rode as a child/teenager and am re-learning all these techniques. I teach yoga and having a video showing the biomechanics just resonated! Excellent way in describing sitting - I can't wait to use this today. I love the fact that you are bringing martial arts into riding!
Thank You for your nice feedback. I am glad my video was helpful for you. Enjoy the riding!!
Thank you, this is exactly what I needed. I've been training both martial arts and riding, but for some reason they haven't clicked together in my brain before. I've felt more comfortable with a long stirrup, but now I can see why that's not good.
Wow. I am impressed on so many levels! Thank you for being so generous with your wisdom.
This is most helpful! Thank you so much for the video! I never connected the 'horse riding' karate position to actual riding. Good to know I can put it to use!
The horse is being so good!
Thank you! I'm a very visual person so this helped a lot! Its obvious you know what you are talking about :)
Love this video! I often tell students that riding is like Dancing With the Stars....as the rider we must be strong but flexible, just like a great ballroom dancer!
such a great video! I tried all of this in a no-stirrup flatwork lesson over the weekend, and it was so helpful, it'll definitely help me with jumping!
Thanks for making this!
Wow, your video has really helped!! Please make more videos!
this is such a well done video! Thank you for making it!
Thank you Erica. This is going to be very helpful.
This woman knows REALLY a lot about riding.
Thank you so much for this, Erica.
Wonderfull shared this to all my customers and friends :)
This looks similar to what my position normally is while riding (and I have been criticized for it). I think it will be helpful to incorporate more of my lats, rather than my arm muscles in holding steady contact. My horse has trouble coming round and on the bit, but I think this position would help my consistency, which will also help him to become more consistent. Also, when we are jumping, I believe this position will help stabilize both of us on the approach and help me ride more confidently
I understand moving with the horse. But I also understand the need to feel grounded in your position. How can you be in control, if you can't control yourself on the horse? Not only is dropping your heel rather unnatural for you, but... i personally find it hard to "sink my weight in my heels". I naturally want to do the kibadachi (I've taken Karate for 8 years) and learned to ground myself and perfect my center of gravity. Dropping my heel, makes me feel awfully top heavy...
I've been riding for over 40 years and thought I was a pretty decent rider. I watched this video and had the opportunity ride the very next day. WOW!!! What an incredible difference it made!! I've never felt "so connected" to a horse in all my life. The horse I was riding shied sideways a good 10 feet and I literally didn't move! One thing I found is that my "tail bones" were really sore and blistered, due the new seat I was adopting ( 4 hour ride). Does that mean I'm doing this seat correctly?
Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge!
Thanks your videos are very interesting! I have been looking for an off horse exercise to help me with core strength and balance so this seems like a good one to try. I am a tense rider so tend to curl up when I get unbalanced. I have recently shortened my stirrups a lot and starting to accept it makes me more secure, although it made me feel too bouncy when rising in trot at first, this helps to explain why :-)
omg This is amazing!! Thank you SO much! Im going to study this for my next lesson!
wow wish I knew this before.thanks so much. 4 the demo.
Really nicely produced. Thanks :)
I totally do that to!
I'm riding tomorrow and I'm gonna think of this video and ride better =)
This helped me so much. Thank you:)
wow this really taught me to have a fun riding experince with my horse
Great video!! Very clear explanation. Thank you so much!
I'm not trying to hate, because everybody has their own riding style. But, what I did notice is that she isn't moving with the horse very well, at around 9:30 during the trot work her hands are moving with her body instead of being independent so they are pulling then releasing then pulling then releasing on the horses mouth, you can see this by the way he gapes his mouth around the reins.
Great video. .Beautifully explained.
Thank you for everything.
Woo Santa Cruz! Great video! It's very helpful
This is also called the rooting stance. Practicing it with breathing creates strength and balance. It is also how massage therapists are taught to stand while working on a client.
thank you so much for these advice, and kindly provide ue with more videos regarding canter for the bingers.
thanks
Rider from Saudi Arabia
hey im also a black belt in karate and i ride since 2 years and i also realized that what i learnt in martial arts does really help for horse riding! But i learned new similarities....Thanks! (Just a question what dan are you?)
@LianeHartleb - I also noticed the leg position, I guess it may be the saddle or that this rider finds it more secure, but my instructor is always telling me off for my leg wandering back! I am a rider who tenses up and curls forward though, so I think it makes an especially big difference for me and I need to think about keeping my feet slightly further forward than I think they should be. I saw pictures and didn't realise how far back it went :-/
I love this video! I'm a beginner rider, and I feel like it's helped me to understand what I was doing wrong. But I was wondering if you had any tips for riding with a slightly longer stirrup? I'm pretty short, and even fastened up all the way the stirrups are pretty long for me, to the point where it makes it diffficult to post the trot. (standing up doesn't really raise me much out of the saddle)
wonderful video, thank you from India...helped me a lot with my riding
LianeHeartleb
Your foot is not supposed to be back far far. Actually the women that is riding in this video, has the wrong leg position. It is too far back. Instead of being inline with her hip, shoulder, and ear, it is inline with her bum only. So you want your leg/foot position to be a little back behind half way point of the girth
Reminds me quite a bit of Mary Wanless.
As I understood, your core is your inner muscles in thighs, seat bones, and below your belly which are affected by the way you move your legs when you ride. It is an inner strength that you should feel to resist any unexpected motion or imbalance
This is the basis for a the centered riding video. The unbendable arm etc.
thank you!
I got my first blackbelt in Tang Soo Do Too !
Great information! I couldn't help noticing a structural imbalance in Erica's body and am curious if it affects her horse's balance over time?
wonderful video. thanks!
(and my horse thanks you too!)
Brilliant.
This is amazing!! 😘
excellent
Very nice video 😍
Thank you for this video. I wish you were my teacher...
Got my black belt in Taekwondo. :)
OMG thank you
Good advice and it makes sense but your rider looks like her leg is too far back and out of alignment . especially on the trot to halt transition.
I guess I'm not doing that badly. My horse asks me to dance with him frequently and is always willing to engage with me.
thank you for this video it was really helpful but i dont really understand how to stop the horse without pulling on the reins. Can you please help?
Hi, Madam ,thank you very much . Your video is awesome .
+EricaPosley's channel, do you have any other channel? I see that since 2012 no more of your fantastic videos are up, and your blog is also empty.
I hope there is nothing wrong but lack of time?
I would love to see and lear more from you, and try to take it into practice . I do not own a horse and often instructors at some stables do not pay attentions to such details.
Please let us know where to find more of your materials or how to contact you for lessons ?
Hi,
I am fine. I do have a few more videos up. A series of how to post correctly. My channel is gotseat. You can contact me from my email erica@gotseat.com
SchattendragonflyPL Thank you sssooo much for taking the time to pass on your knowledge. It has helped me so so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you :-D
i have been out of the saddle for about 15 years and now have my lifelong companion a very tall 18-2 ID X hunter the cob i had just before him kept getting excited and bolting zig zags with me when i would least expect it he was just a 5 yr old my new boy is a ripe 16 and well mannered but im so scared of falling now its getting ridiculous :( my confidence is shattered and i find myself hunching forward and not feeling as well balanced as i once was :( i used to break youngsters
im wondering would this seat translate to showjumping or what possission do i need to be in for showjumping? also could you do i video on correct 2-point? your videos are very helpful
Can you please make a cantering video! I would love to improve mine!
omg i love her
Thanks for the video. I have an issue where my leg is not far back enough and when I post it looks like my leg kicks sideways. I have been riding a while but I am really getting frustrated and I am not sure how to fix this. Thanks!
Totally going with MichlPiano above me!!
@EricaPoseley does this stance also help with jumping? because i do jump and i tend to fall forward when in 2point.