Equisimulator

[Very new]

Does anyione know if there are any riding schools that use the equisimulator? I had a lesson last night on the lunge trying to improve my position to get better balance in canter - at times the sitting trot came right - but poor horse! I feel it would be a lot kinder if I could have a go on a simulator.

[Heather]

HI Very New,

Sad to say that there are no riding schools yet that have the Equisimulator. We are currently designing a new machine which will be better still and hope that we will be able to market them once tested.


Heather

[Wally]

Let me know the second they go into commercial production!

[Very new]

Thanks for replying - the poor horse will just have to suffer until I can get it right!

[lamprellsarah]

yeah me too, i might have been riding for ages, but i could deffinatly do with loads of lessons on that!! and someone yelling and showing me!!

[judyl]

Hi there Very New

You're not too far away from me! We're near Haslemere. Anyway, we were lucky enough to go to Heather's a couple of years ago for a go on the simulator and to ride her wonderful horses. I had a problem with canter too and especially sitting trot! Do you have Heather's book and video no.1 as they both describe very well what we should be doing with our bodies in canter & sitting trot. I'll tell you the best thing that worked for me though, and that was Sue saying that I collapsed in front when doing trot. Now, to anyone else looking, I looked perfectly upright but she was spot on! My upper diaphragm(sp?) was just slightly forward & loose and not up and firm. It has just been remarkable what a difference remembering to lift & up when I canter! My horse has had a virus and been off work and I've been getting her fit over the past 4 - 6 weeks and on Thursday in my lesson I had my first canter and I had been a bit worried that I'd have lost my seat but no - on right and left leads I was fine, soft and supple in the saddle. If my horse could talk (and sometimes I think she can 'cos I can understand her) she was buy Heather a large scotch or whatever Heather's tipple is!

Judy

[Very new]

Thanks, I tried sitting up a bit firmer and straighter and it certainly helped in the canter. I am still at the stage of finding it all a bit too much to remeber at once - it seems I can get any two out of legs, hands and body right at any one time but not all three!

[hoosier horse]

what is and equisimulator?:confused:
thanks:D

[Sue Carnell]

http://www.enlightenedequitation.com/Main_Menu/main_menu.html

Follow the link to simulators in the menu. It's a machine that simulates the horse's movement, used for teaching purposes by Heather Moffett who is "Enlightened Equitation". :)

Sue Carnell
sue@eclipse.co.uk

[Em 1]

Hi, Very New,

Don't worry, I know exactly what you mean about it is all too much to remember at once! By the time you have legs long, heels down, back supple, arms soft, elbows in, shoulders back, look around, hands soft, don't tense, don't flop etc etc.....your mind is spinning! I am having terrible trouble cantering for the same reason. The only thing I found helped a bit was sticking my chest out and thinking shoulders and heels down. By sticking your chest out you normally bring your shoulders back and by putting your heels down you lengthen your leg and so sit 'firmer and straighter'. It's incredably hard and ultimately I have been told that hours in the saddle will really help me now; practice what you know without someone telling you something new all the time! I am most certainly not an expert but I do wish you luck because on the (very rare) occasion I get it right it superbe and reminds you why we do it! Keep going and have fun!

[larri]

Heather,
I was at a tack shop trying to suss out a good school/ instructor using classical methods for Gy, and the lady there said there was a school somewhere nearby - (stortford area) who taught kids on a simulator ( had one for walk/ trot and another for canter) and might teach an adult - I wondered at the time if she was trained by you but obviously not!!!

hmmm.!

[Heather]

HI Larri,

Was that Stortford as in Bishop'sStortford? I don;t know anyone who has simulators in that area but another company called Racewood, also make them, and I was involved with them initally. They don't have my teaching methods though which is what really makes the machine so successful, because the methods are so simple and quick. Be interested to find out who it is though.

Cheers



Heather