​Moments of insight: 15 ideas to help you solve some riding problems

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Have you ever had moments of insight during a workout? Maybe your coach was saying something and you suddenly “caught a trick”, or you were working on something new and suddenly you got the feeling that you are doing everything right. This article collects answers from readers of the American equestrian site Noellefloyd.com, I wonder if you recognize yourself in their comments.

* Nikki Fuller Adams: “The jump itself doesn’t mean anything. Show jumping is made up of many nuances that you work on while riding.

* Kaysee Larkin: “Moh moment of insight is connected with distances. This is my problem. I do not always see the calculation well and panic if I drive up to a bad take-off point – I start to pull on the reins or even worse, stop the horse in front of the barrier or turn away if this is a home workout. One day I remembered the words of the coach – “if the distance is only ‘slightly’ inaccurate – then it’s a ‘normal’ distance!” and it suddenly dawned on me: a little closer, a little further – if I lead the horse with my foot – it will jump».

*Lynn Mueller: “TOWhen my trainer told me that my sitting position was like a fetal position (I slouch weirdly, I really don’t know why I do it), I began to try to sit up straight. In addition, I made my stirrups a hole longer, and suddenly, as if by magic, everything changed.».

* Hayley Anders: «One of the brightest moments of insight for me happened in the first year of my work with a coach. She taught me how to change legs, I caught the trick after she told me to do several movements at the same time – shift the rein to the side where we change the leg, plus send with the outside leg and transfer the weight. Since then, I have always changed legs correctly, and it is even difficult for me to do it wrong!»

* Noelle Chandler: «МMy main insight was that using the sitting bones can be a great help to keep the horse straight on the diagonals. The result was a more correct passage of long diagonals. We do something like this: we turn our inner shoulder a little back, the inner leg is a little ahead, the outer one is behind the girth. As a result, you make a slight movement of the hips and maintain the direction of movement and straightness. It also helps with counter cantering and changing direction.».

* @mientkiejabuka: “I’m somewhere I’ve heard that you need to get the horse to go on the rein, not to pull on the reins in an attempt to make contact. My horse has a tendency to hide behind the reins, and changing my approach a little has completely changed the quality of my riding.».

* @jaclynpittenger Jaclyn: “Moh moment of insight: relax the leg from the hip. Previously, I sat on two points. This radically changed my feeling, and the landing became deep, I was able to sit up straight and take turns correctly.».

* @heather.osgood Heather: «I was told that the horse should move from the hindquarters and not run forward. Here it is, the moment of illumination!»

* @ceciliapalmer Cecilia: «My horse is sometimes very tense and resists. Eventually we found his ‘switch’ – instead of being rougher with him when he was “dressing up”, I started letting him walk for a bit and then resumed work. Thanks to this, I began to feel the moment when he was about to start and prevent his antics even before he had time to do something.».

* @zandradoucet Alexandra Doucet: “OOne of my friends helped me a lot by explaining the correct position of the foot like this: imagine that water flows down your legs from the back of your thigh to the heel. Now, instead of pushing the horse with my heel, I began to work with the legs, and my position has changed radically.».

* @chlojoyy Chloe MacEachern: “AT The last time I had an epiphany was just a few weeks ago. The trainer always tells me that I should soften my hand so that my horse can relax and carry himself. Of course, I was under the delusion that ‘you need to support the frame of the horse’ until I became softer with my hand. It turned out that a soft hand makes the horse relaxed».

* @halthehaflinger Esduhal: “TOWhen I learned how to canter, I had problems – I flopped in the saddle. And the more I tried to sit (accompanying the movements of the horse), the more I was kicked out. It dawned on me when I was sitting on a wooden rocking horse – I suddenly realized that you should just let the horse move under you, and not try to swing at a canter».

* @roxanesmind Roxane: «Here is the story of my epiphany: I was jumping on a horse that refused to jump obstacles with stumps. The first time I entered the barrier, the horse stopped right in front of the oxer and I almost fell. I was very scared during the next three workouts. One fine day, I realized that if I sit in the back, look forward, and not at the barrier (it was very difficult for me) and let it work, he will jump. Since then, all my workouts have been just great. My horse is great».

*Sarah Vaselenak: “IN I recently had something similar. I do hunter showjumping and I keep hearing from trainers that I need to sit more calmly in the saddle, and although I tried very hard to do this, I could not get what my trainers wanted from me. Only recently did I suddenly realize that “sitting still” means moving with the horse. Since then I’ve been focusing on relaxing my hip and knee and going in rhythm with the cantering horse and you know, now I’m not only more in sync, I feel it.».

Source: Noellefloyd.com

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