Steering The Horse - Dressage Training
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ค. 2018
- Steering the horse correctly is a lot more difficult that you think!
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What we think we should do naturally to turn can often lead to lack of balance. Mary Wanless BHSI explains in this first video about the basics of steering. The rider biomechanics of the rider need to be spot on, not only to survive and unbalanced horse, but to then effectively influence the horse into correct balance.
What is Mary's credentials?
Author of the Ride With Your Mind books and DVDs of which 6 are best selling books. Teaches all over the world from novice riders through to riders who have competed at Olympic level. She also holds the BHSI certificate. She has a network of certified RWYM coaches across the global.www.mary-wanless.com
Wow. Thanks.
Where does Mary teach? Any dressage recommendation for New York or California?
The wheelbarrow analogy is perfect and makes a tonne of sense
I love the wheelbarrow analogy! The bicycle thing went so against my intuition and those shoulders always popping out. Now I know why! Thank you so much in helping with your concise wording.
Can you show what you should do instead? This video doesn't really address that although it's super helpful!! If I'm not meant to pull on my inside rein, what should I be doing with my hands/reins instead?
Hi @yogawithkassandra, membership to Dressage Training TV offers the answers to your question, and so many more. Do take a look at what's on offer to members here: dressagetraining.tv/tv-membership/
I'm totally guilty of pulling on the inside rain and end up exactly with the problems she mentions such as the horse running it's shoulder out 🙈 thank you for this video :)) !
Amazingly clear explanation, thanks a loooot! My coach can’t stress enough that we should take « big turns » instead of « sharp turns », but I always end up with pulling the inside rein which leads to “sharp turns”, feeling guilty to the horse.... your “wheelbarrow” metaphor and 50/50% together with the 2 tips at the end have inspired me tremendously! I will work on this immediately. Again, thank you very much! ❤️
This was great would have liked more about how u should steer with your legs opening the rein to put all into context. Good video
Such a great explanation! Thank you. That really helped me clue into the importance of why this is the correct way to turn.
Thank you! You explained what I do, and wondered why I become pretzel like when I do turns. I knew it was wrong and I now know to work on that. Thanks,
Wow! Extremely clear and helpful! Thank you!
I need a chair/seat thing like the one behind her. If anyone knows where I could find one...😃
The wheelbarrow thing I really liked it made me understand.
Thank u
I teach riders to sit even on both seat bones and pivot around center (carousel horse). When the rider stays straight up and pivots from the waist right or left, not drop the shoulder as shown in video, but level shoulder, the inside rein automatically shortens by way of your inside shoulder going slightly back, and the outside rein automatically lengthens because of the outside shoulder going forward. Although technically you have not changed hand to bit rein length on either side. Also when you stay aligned and upright and pivot from the waist your inside seat bone naturally comes back and leg comes back. Outside seat bone and leg come slightly forward. I start people here because if the seat is even and balanced and pivot is level in the shoulders and from the waist you get all other aids, rein, seat, leg automatically with little effort or brain space. Is this correct thinking or am I part of the problem and messing up my students? Please be kind and informed if commenting :) I'm doing my best.
Where do I get a chair like that? I'm a little surprised no one else has asked this.
I like your style! Thanks.
Thank you!
Wheelbarrow..perfect !
now we need a video on how to do circles correctly.
Great tips, my trainer is always on me about my weak outside rein. What do you think about riding with no stirrups to achieve equal weight on both seat bones? I feel like riding without stirrups forces me to sit up straight and balanced, otherwise I always start slipping off the right side
Hi, there is a possibility that working without stirrups could help. However I would ask yourself how much you are pushing into each foot? Is there equal weight in both stirrups. Also, for dressage, there should only be enough weight to keep your foot in the stirrup. Any more than that tends to straighten out the joints too much and push the rider up and back in the saddle.
I did this to fix my riding, I rehabilitated my buddy’s gelding and I would ride him only at a walk or trot for a half hour, and along the way I would work on minimal pelvic motion, pressure on each seat bone, and balancing my body with the horses movement. Hope this helped.
i was always taught to use the inside rein and pivot the horse on its axis in order in order to initiate bend through the horses spine..now i'm confused. was all of my training wrong?
I have always considered Sally Swift to be the founder of rider biomechanics....
Thank you I will try this 😹😻 I am one of those lucky people with both reins and my horse switch shoulders like a snake 😹😹
People pull on the inner rein because that's how they were taught. At least, that's how I was taught. I was also taught to nudge the horse's inner side with my foot, gently but firmly. But this video only shows how *not* to do it, so maybe should be renamed.
Yes yes yes!!!!!
Did RDR2 missed this and didn't include it?
What happens when you find yourself being taught by an instructor who teaches you to pull on the reins exactly in the way you are not supposed to and they’re teaching you to dig and grip and kick with the HEEL and all the other normal bad habits that Hunter Jumper riders are taught??? The horses are always running with the head and neck up in the air and running unbalanced and out of rhythm into and out of every transition.
I think you need to ride your own way, or find a new trainer. :/
It’s people that I know, not myself. I love watching training and clinic/lesson videos taught by well-rounded professionals. I’m not able to ride much these days due to lack of access and for the past decade or so I have been reading and watching videos on riding in training and really focusing on educating myself and I have learned so so much from just that. The barn I was talking about in the comment above is a barn that is least by one person who does the barn management and maintenance and does all the lessons with mostly young kids and beginners. I am not sure if there are many adults and if they are they may have their own horse there or they don’t ride and are there for their children. The owner/trainer has a bunch of lesson horses and teaches lessons with the kids and does a lot of jumping and I just see all the kids pulling on the reins and kicking and making kissing noises when asking for a transition. There are so many bad habits being trained and developed and then never addressed. Even just thumbs on top is something that the instructor may be addresses just a couple times throughout a one hour lesson. The trainer also told a student and mother that on the horse, that the reason why the Horse throws its head up in the air is because it used to be a western horse and it needs to pump up it’s body to go into the Canter. And it’s one of those really bad ugly canter transitions. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. How do I convince a parent and horse owner who is very much a beginner and they are very new at owning horses, that they should look elsewhere for proper training because it will be better for them and their horses in the long run ?
"Oh, I`m seen not to be making it" lol
This video only talks about what not to do which is not pulling on your reins. Thats it thats the video.