Re: Dressage question


"Aunt Nasty" <ye_olde_muleskinner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 22:54:00 -0400, "Lizzardwoman"
<lizzardwomanRMOVE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
| >Have you tried riding a 20-m, 15-m, 10-m circle outside an arena? It can
| >seem deceptively easy perhaps. I was riding on the grass when the arena
was
| >too dusty and even with a track somewhat beaten into the ground, it was
very
| >challenging nailing the size and the shape without benefit of the visual
| >cues in the arena. Of course I'm an obsequious neophyte so there's that.
| > : )
|
| You need to stop looking for the visual cues,
| as it's too linear an activity for riding circles.
|
| Your center of gravity, in front of your lumbar
| spine, rotates slightly to the inside, your seat
| and elevated inner ribcage allow elevation on
| the inside legs of the horse, as your outside
| seat allows lengthening of the outside legs
| of the horse. When you offer a uniform,
| consistent, actively-allowing spiral, keeping
| your outside leg back and passive, inside leg
| offering potential to stir energy toward the
| outside direct or indirect rein effect, and
| such, the horse will generate and maintain
| a given arc without further ado.

Yes but I still have to connect all that to a particular size arc.

| The horse will execute a circle as precisely as
| your body defines it, when you are correctly
| connected to the horse. It's helpful to use
| the half-turn-and-reverse to establish what
| degrees of influence will generate specific sizes.

Yes but even if a person is doing all that perfectly, they still have to, in
their mind, KNOW how big each of those circles are in space, yes? I have
seen folks claim they were doing a 20-m circle and it was very close to 15-m
IMO.

sharon

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