We used to have to train the “long leg down into the heel” by being lunged riding without reins with saddle without stirrups. Doing exercises alternating sitting and rising trot. And you finish with your knee naturally turning in right from the groin down with heel down(ish) and your riding trot without stirrups actually becomes a forward and backward movement of your weight on the horses back not the “up and down” movement from pushing against the stirrups. So your legs are still. It also trains you to sit more forward on your “fork” and not on your bum with your legs out front which in turn hugely straightens your back and levels your hips. Great for training rider balance. But I promise you that you will initially find you hurt where you’ve never hurt before. It gives an amazing feeling of truly having the horse fully between your legs so to say !
I use to do a half hour lunge lesson once a month so that I could really focus on my position and not worry about what the horse was doing and that half hour lunge lesson without stirrups helped me the most to get my position in the correct place and then that helped me to get how it was supposed to feel then my balance started to improve. Plus doing no stirrups November really just feel it all coming together. My instructor did a lunge lesson every month and I could work on something different each time to help me a better rider. I think that to many people think that they don't need the lunge lesson when actually it is one of the best way to improve your riding skills. Occasionally I had a group lessons with a top professional and they would also agree that lunge lesson is the best way to improve and learn new skills without worrying about controlling the horse.
Ohhh TY that helped me understand how my understanding of the leg part without the posting part and how I learned to ride, not eventing style but western style, but now I can see how connected they still are even with dissimilar training styles, for obvious reasons, add in that part of my skill set is bareback Native American style which is based on not just the physical connection but also a spiritual connection that, so hard to explain in this format, connects both human and equine body and spirit to learn balance of all body and spirit as one entity, as put to me ... like riding a motorcycle, it's an extension of body but in living equine form, as Sir Cameron stated it,... pushing a wheelbarrow and THAT simply states it all, you push your body where you want the wheelbarrow to go 😄😁😜❤️ so short story long 🙄😆 again, TY for your words!! You clicked that kinda silly but rather vital element I've been missing trying to wrap my brain around understanding WOW eventing!! 🙏🥰
My mum used to train me like this when I was a kid. It really helped my riding. Edit: and will use def this tool again when I'm able to get back to riding
Lucy, I'm 5' 8.5" tall with long legs. I'm old school Dressage and had to train with longer stirrups and ride deep. It was hard at first but became so much more comfortable and gave me great balance. I must confess riding long has got me out of some nasty situations. I did try riding Hunter Style, but my legs cramped up and I was so out of balance.
Following for a long time now. I am amazed at what you and Justine have accomplished with Ember. He eyes are bright and alive with interest. He appears much healthier! Well done Team Lucy!
Lucy put all of your weight down through your heel. The knee become a joint in the middle of a soft leg. The amount of work that your ankle needs to do is the most. Justine just said exactly this! I must learn to wait to comment to the end of the video!!!!
Lovely to see Ember Lucy, he has muscled up beautifully. This was a very good lesson Justine gave you. You are a very good rider so please stop berating yourself it’s just a few tweaks you need to perfect. Ember has taught you a lot too since you bought him and you’ve become a great partnership.tfs🏇
Wonderful Lucy, I thought you looked marvelous riding with a longer leg. You were more synchronized with Amber and you rode more relaxed and so did he, your dressage together will skyrocket.
Thank you so much for sharing this Lucy. I have been working on the same things with my instructor whilst not necessarily fully grasping it all as it doesn’t help that my lessons are all in French!! 😅
Super lesson ! With your leg longer your rider profile changed amazing,and I do believe it helped Amber to find some comfort & then relaxation.... Wow 👌 . I find the longer leg so hard. So congratulations 😊
You look so much better with the stirrups out - fits your long and lean body and makes you not hunch. Nicely done and good to put yourself in a place that may feel novice, but is really well beyond! ❤❤❤
Ember is looking great! I’ve always loved him but he’s really starting to come together. Lucy your leg issue is very common but Justine was quick to pick it up and now you know!! Great job!
Hi Lucy. No harm in going back to basics. Great to do when having any issues. Ember looks so much calmer. All your hard work is paying off. Hope Laragh is getting better. Can we have an update?
Super session 👍 and Ember is looking fabulous. Riding is all about going back to basics from time to time, it's what makes us better riders, nothing at all to be ashamed of. You can automatically see the difference in Ember the moment your position improved and with that you will have that in your mind from now on of that's how to ride him. Thoroughbreds are so fun to ride and retrain, especially a fiery chestnut lol, and you can really see he tries his absolute best, but with most thoroughbreds unfortunately they do show how your riding them, and you have to know how to ride to get the best out of them. I think you and Ember are fantastic together, and he will help you as much as you help him. Take care until next time
I've been riding for 40 years and this is exactly my bad habit! Resting my leg on and it moving around a lot. So this was great to see and hear advice on thank you. Other things I've found that trigger it in me personally, is that I tend to lean forward a little naturally. This moves my leg back putting it into more of a contact point. And also I natural push up from my legs/feet to rise, rather than swing my hips forward. Obviously, like you I try to correct these things, but the moment I'm distracted I revert back to normal. It is frustrating.
IF we gripped with ARE knees ,AND din't relaks are heals down .the instructor asks to TAKE the stirrups away . To help US with owner legs ,take care and ALL the best. THANK YOU Justine for ALL your support. 😊😊😊😊👍👍👍💟💖
Awww Ember is so cute and handsome gaining so many skills so well so fast ❤💕🐴❤️❤️💕💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️❤️🐴🐴❤️❤️❤️🐴💕💕🐴❤️❤️🐴✨✨🌹✨💕🐴❤️❤️❤️🐴💕✨✨💕❤️❤️🐴✨🌹🌹🌹✨🐴❤️❤️❤️💕💕✨✨💕🐴💕✨
Have a fun time Lucy and Ember riding together today and you both are a fabulous team ❤️🐴🐴❤️✨💕✨❤️🐴🐴🐴❤️❤️🐴🐴✨🌹💕✨🐴🐴🐴🐴❤️❤️🐴🐴❤️✨💕💕✨🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴❤️✨💕💕💕✨❤️🐴❤️💕💕🌹💕❤️❤️❤️✨❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Love your videos always and amazing and so proud of you and making a big comeback and well done 💕❤️✨✨💕🌹🌹💕❤️✨✨🐴✨❤️❤️🌹💕💕✨✨❤️💕🌹🌹💕❤️✨🐴🐴🐴✨💕💕🌹🌹💕❤️❤️✨✨✨❤️💕💕❤️✨✨🐴🐴❤️💕💕🌹❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You and ember did amazing job with this lesson well done and improving so well each day ❤️❤️💕💕✨🌹🌹🌹❤️✨💕💕✨🌹🌹❤️✨💕💕✨🌹🐴🌹❤️✨💕✨🌹🌹🌹✨✨💕💕✨❤️🐴🐴🌹✨💕💕❤️🌹🐴🐴🌹✨❤️🌹🐴🌹❤️❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂
Memories...."get in your 2 point and get those heels down. Stay there until I tell you to sit!...shoulders back, keep them still! Drive with your pelvis not your leg! Quiet those hands, your killing his mouth! Heels down!!!" 😂😂😂
well to me it looked like you kept hitting his shoulder with the front of your foot? You ride much better than I do. Horse did not screw his tail or anything. He might have gone a bit better after you changed your seat and leg a bit. So just relax, you are a good horseman.
So pleased to see Ember. I am also pleased to be able to say that after a 47kg weight loss, I am finally light enough to buy my own Ember.
Totally love how Justine teaches. She makes it very black & white for both the good & bad. Instant praise when doing something right.
We used to have to train the “long leg down into the heel” by being lunged riding without reins with saddle without stirrups. Doing exercises alternating sitting and rising trot. And you finish with your knee naturally turning in right from the groin down with heel down(ish) and your riding trot without stirrups actually becomes a forward and backward movement of your weight on the horses back not the “up and down” movement from pushing against the stirrups. So your legs are still. It also trains you to sit more forward on your “fork” and not on your bum with your legs out front which in turn hugely straightens your back and levels your hips. Great for training rider balance. But I promise you that you will initially find you hurt where you’ve never hurt before. It gives an amazing feeling of truly having the horse fully between your legs so to say !
Agree!
I use to do a half hour lunge lesson once a month so that I could really focus on my position and not worry about what the horse was doing and that half hour lunge lesson without stirrups helped me the most to get my position in the correct place and then that helped me to get how it was supposed to feel then my balance started to improve. Plus doing no stirrups November really just feel it all coming together. My instructor did a lunge lesson every month and I could work on something different each time to help me a better rider. I think that to many people think that they don't need the lunge lesson when actually it is one of the best way to improve your riding skills. Occasionally I had a group lessons with a top professional and they would also agree that lunge lesson is the best way to improve and learn new skills without worrying about controlling the horse.
Ohhh TY that helped me understand how my understanding of the leg part without the posting part and how I learned to ride, not eventing style but western style, but now I can see how connected they still are even with dissimilar training styles, for obvious reasons, add in that part of my skill set is bareback Native American style which is based on not just the physical connection but also a spiritual connection that, so hard to explain in this format, connects both human and equine body and spirit to learn balance of all body and spirit as one entity, as put to me ... like riding a motorcycle, it's an extension of body but in living equine form, as Sir Cameron stated it,... pushing a wheelbarrow and THAT simply states it all, you push your body where you want the wheelbarrow to go 😄😁😜❤️ so short story long 🙄😆 again, TY for your words!! You clicked that kinda silly but rather vital element I've been missing trying to wrap my brain around understanding WOW eventing!! 🙏🥰
My mum used to train me like this when I was a kid. It really helped my riding. Edit: and will use def this tool again when I'm able to get back to riding
Same as you
Lucy, I'm 5' 8.5" tall with long legs. I'm old school Dressage and had to train with longer stirrups and ride deep. It was hard at first but became so much more comfortable and gave me great balance. I must confess riding long has got me out of some nasty situations. I did try riding Hunter Style, but my legs cramped up and I was so out of balance.
Following for a long time now. I am amazed at what you and Justine have accomplished with Ember. He eyes are bright and alive with interest. He appears much healthier! Well done Team Lucy!
Lucy put all of your weight down through your heel. The knee become a joint in the middle of a soft leg. The amount of work that your ankle needs to do is the most. Justine just said exactly this! I must learn to wait to comment to the end of the video!!!!
Love Justine! She’s an absolute diamond instructor x
Really good lesson, the improvement in Ember was clear, longer neck, and stride.
Good job Ladies!
Brilliant 🎉
What a beautiful change from when I first watched Ember!
Lovely to see Ember Lucy, he has muscled up beautifully. This was a very good lesson Justine gave you. You are a very good rider so please stop berating yourself it’s just a few tweaks you need to perfect. Ember has taught you a lot too since you bought him and you’ve become a great partnership.tfs🏇
Wonderful Lucy, I thought you looked marvelous riding with a longer leg. You were more synchronized with Amber and you rode more relaxed and so did he, your dressage together will skyrocket.
😊 bless Bonnie looks like an eventer just coming back after a break, bless her little running bucks! Loving it ❤ x.
Thank you so much for sharing this Lucy. I have been working on the same things with my instructor whilst not necessarily fully grasping it all as it doesn’t help that my lessons are all in French!! 😅
0:09 the droopy lip ,awwwww
Really great content which will help me with my horse - thank you! please do more lessons with Justine like this you two are great.
Super lesson ! With your leg longer your rider profile changed amazing,and I do believe it helped Amber to find some comfort & then relaxation.... Wow 👌 .
I find the longer leg so hard. So congratulations 😊
Bonnies Zoomies were classic !!🤣🤣
Ember looks very smart in this clip style
You look so much better with the stirrups out - fits your long and lean body and makes you not hunch. Nicely done and good to put yourself in a place that may feel novice, but is really well beyond! ❤❤❤
Ember is looking great! I’ve always loved him but he’s really starting to come together. Lucy your leg issue is very common but Justine was quick to pick it up and now you know!! Great job!
Love to watch you and Ember
Love TB's
Justine is awsome as always
😊
Hi Lucy. No harm in going back to basics. Great to do when having any issues. Ember looks so much calmer. All your hard work is paying off. Hope Laragh is getting better. Can we have an update?
Omg I LOVE. a justine lesson ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
There's an idea, a saddle cover with pressure sensors!
Super session 👍 and Ember is looking fabulous. Riding is all about going back to basics from time to time, it's what makes us better riders, nothing at all to be ashamed of. You can automatically see the difference in Ember the moment your position improved and with that you will have that in your mind from now on of that's how to ride him. Thoroughbreds are so fun to ride and retrain, especially a fiery chestnut lol, and you can really see he tries his absolute best, but with most thoroughbreds unfortunately they do show how your riding them, and you have to know how to ride to get the best out of them. I think you and Ember are fantastic together, and he will help you as much as you help him. Take care until next time
Great lesson.
Ember is such a truly nice boy 💓
I've been riding for 40 years and this is exactly my bad habit! Resting my leg on and it moving around a lot. So this was great to see and hear advice on thank you.
Other things I've found that trigger it in me personally, is that I tend to lean forward a little naturally. This moves my leg back putting it into more of a contact point. And also I natural push up from my legs/feet to rise, rather than swing my hips forward. Obviously, like you I try to correct these things, but the moment I'm distracted I revert back to normal. It is frustrating.
Wonderful, I enjoyed that! My first time seeing Ember in action too, he's lovely 😊
IF we gripped with ARE knees ,AND din't relaks are heals down .the instructor asks to TAKE the stirrups away . To help US with owner legs ,take care and ALL the best. THANK YOU Justine for ALL your support. 😊😊😊😊👍👍👍💟💖
Yeah Ember and Laragh are sweet, but Bonnie is just the best 😍Yay for welsh pony zoomies!
Bonnie's so cute! Have you ever thought of teaching her to drive?
Lovely to see Ember back in work Lucy 🧡I love how Justine teaches 🥰
Awww Ember is so cute and handsome gaining so many skills so well so fast ❤💕🐴❤️❤️💕💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️❤️🐴🐴❤️❤️❤️🐴💕💕🐴❤️❤️🐴✨✨🌹✨💕🐴❤️❤️❤️🐴💕✨✨💕❤️❤️🐴✨🌹🌹🌹✨🐴❤️❤️❤️💕💕✨✨💕🐴💕✨
His traveling so much better Lucy. You both are looking great !
Another great vlog! Thank you x
Have a fun time Lucy and Ember riding together today and you both are a fabulous team ❤️🐴🐴❤️✨💕✨❤️🐴🐴🐴❤️❤️🐴🐴✨🌹💕✨🐴🐴🐴🐴❤️❤️🐴🐴❤️✨💕💕✨🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴❤️✨💕💕💕✨❤️🐴❤️💕💕🌹💕❤️❤️❤️✨❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you sooo much for sharing ❤ I resemble all of this 😊
Love your videos always and amazing and so proud of you and making a big comeback and well done 💕❤️✨✨💕🌹🌹💕❤️✨✨🐴✨❤️❤️🌹💕💕✨✨❤️💕🌹🌹💕❤️✨🐴🐴🐴✨💕💕🌹🌹💕❤️❤️✨✨✨❤️💕💕❤️✨✨🐴🐴❤️💕💕🌹❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You and ember did amazing job with this lesson well done and improving so well each day ❤️❤️💕💕✨🌹🌹🌹❤️✨💕💕✨🌹🌹❤️✨💕💕✨🌹🐴🌹❤️✨💕✨🌹🌹🌹✨✨💕💕✨❤️🐴🐴🌹✨💕💕❤️🌹🐴🐴🌹✨❤️🌹🐴🌹❤️❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂
Memories...."get in your 2 point and get those heels down. Stay there until I tell you to sit!...shoulders back, keep them still! Drive with your pelvis not your leg! Quiet those hands, your killing his mouth! Heels down!!!" 😂😂😂
Amazing how many people kick at every stride. And yes, the foundations are so important for you and your horse.
Love ember and u ....he looks so well and a credit to you ! Have u ever thought about doing some showing with him ....with his pointy toes 😂
Lucy have you had the bit fitters out at the time of this lesson?
He looked so good, he seems to be keeping the rhythm so nicely now. C u next Tuesday 😂❤
😂😉
Fab lesson 💜🦄💜
Bonny would make a lovely harness pony she would be great fun . If you do do that Barry Hook is an amazing trainer .
Yes, please. Agree with
Justine. Lower ypure leg.
Cool vid
My bad habits are looking down while riding in the area and leaning back while in walk (unsure why that happens)
Bonnie is soooo cute ❤❤❤ still a wild thing 😆 how old is she now?? 🤔😁🥰
Oh ladies I love his mane he has no gaps and it’s lovely and thick ❤
Bonnie looked like she was having lots of fun doing zoomies in the field, how's Laragh coping being on box rest?
Lucy did you know you only had one star earring in 😂
I think Lucy could let her stirrups down even more with those long legs of hers, she looks lovely on Ember.
You don't look too tall for him at all, even with the longer stirrups.
well to me it looked like you kept hitting his shoulder with the front of your foot? You ride much better than I do. Horse did not screw his tail or anything. He might have gone a bit better after you changed your seat and leg a bit. So just relax, you are a good horseman.
In my opinion, your stirrups are too short.
they're short for dressage but not for schooling in a jump saddle