Critique me

[mokiegal180]

Can you critique me? But, ignore my hands, they are not usually like that. Lol


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[mokiegal180]

please someone?

[ccemms]

Hey there, i'll give it a go but I'm no expert, from what i can see you have similiar issues to me some of which i have partly/almost solved.

Firstly your horse looks lovely and is responding to your leg which is good.

You seem to ride quite forwards instead of sitting back and tucking oyur bum underneath you- I used to do that quite a lot and found working where I could see myself in a mirror helped, as did working without stirrups, I also tried to purposefully push myself to feel as though I'm really sitting back because it would often turn out I was still slightly forwards or just right. Sitting back will also help get a really sharp canter transition though the one you did was really good as far as I could tell!

Also you seem to have slightly loose reins so i would say you need to have more of a contact so that you don't have loose rein flapping about.

The only other thing that i noticed was maybe your heels could have been pointed down, in and the feet positioned a bit further back so that you have a straight line from shoulder, hip to heel- again working without stirrups really helped me!

As I said not really an expert but may give you some ideas- I'm sure others will respond soon and be able to help more than me!

Good luck

[wanabe]

I think you look good! :)

Your upper body moves a little in canter, but not badly.

[oinkmoooink]

Umm ok, well, could i mention your hands please? Because i tihnk they are the reason other bits so wrong.
Try taking up a lot more rein, bringing your shoulders up, elbows into your sides, float your hands thumbs up, and it will compeltly change the way you ride. Your leg posittion looks quite good voerall, i'd actually say at some points your heels too far down, a lot of risding instructors spend half their lives telling people to ut their weight into the heels and push their jheels down, but your heels need only be just below the paralel, with the weight distributed between your seat bones mostly. You shoudnt be putting any wieght in your stirrups rising.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o121/oinkmoooink/Picture1799.jpg
Theres a picture so you can see what i eman about the overall position. You need to tuck your pelvus underneath you and relax down thorugh your back,, not hollow it.
Sorry if it sounds very critical. your elg position is over all quite nice,a nd you sit the canter quite well.

I used to have horrible problems with my upper body position, tunred out the be mostly to do witht he fact that my entire back was out of place, so i coul actually sit up porperly straight, but i can understand :D

[Fanshawe]

You are a nice quiet rider but you try too hard to rise! Let the horse push you out of the saddle and don't go too high. Do transitions to get the horse listening more to you and get that bum underneath you! Often when we rise too much or with too much effort it causes the back to arch too much and to tip forward. You have a stable hand which is lovely but you need to get the hands the right way. It might be that you were doing that with the hands because you were rising too high/tipping forward- a natural body reaction to turn the hands in to a position that feels safer if you fall forwards. If you sit up and back then your body might not feel the need to turn the hands to possibly support you. Shorten the reins slightly but be careul not to lean on them! Nice leg position too. Doing a good job and the person who was filming said pretty much all of it too! :D

[mokiegal180]

Thank's guys!!! Yeahh, my hands are because, my horse was actually setting hsi head low (We have some issues with him carry veyr high and out of frame.) So, i didn't want to mess too much with his mouth and gave him a light contact, so he could stretch down, I guess though doing that, I wasn't much worrying about there position.

Thanks!!

[vivi]

Who was the 'voice over' commenting on the video. Please tell me its not your trainer!!

The very first issue to be dealt with is that you are not in alignment, i.e. you cannot draw a straight line through your shoulder, hip and bony knobble on the heel. This means you cannot be in true balance. Bearing this in mind I think you are doing a great job of not interfering with the horse which, with this alignment, is all a rider could hope to do. To influence a horse's carriage the rider must be in complete balance. As it is, your feet are not underneath you and you are falling back behind the movement. Sit at halt and then stand in your stirrups. Your legs will move back which proves the point. Try standing in the stirrups at walk and move onto sitting trot 6 steps, rising trot 6 steps and standing at the trot 6 steps. Keep doing this - providing the horse finds it comfortable and you are safe. This will help strengthen your legs and your torso to give you self carriage. You need this before the horse can become more balanced.

This is just the start of the corrections I would make to your position. i could not get the second vid to work. Can you post more when you have worked on the above?

[Nicole.I]

Wow, who was the person speaking in the video?? Hopefully not your trainer, I wouldn't appreciate even constructive critism like that.. :eek:

Anyway, I agree with what everyone else has said.. You look like you are forcing yourself out of the saddle when rising, but you have a good rhythm so just go with the movement a little more and try not to push on your stirrups. You know about the hands :) Aaand just watch you keep your legs in line, toes not so pointed out.

You two are a nice pair though! He's got a nice canter on him, upbeat :)

Good luck!

[go max!]

Just a few suggestions:
forget about pushing your heels down - when you leg position is right, your heels will be right - if you leg position isnt right, pushing your heels down often pushes your leg forwards.
as someone else said, concentrate on getting that correct position, so heels/hips/shoulders are in line - otherwise you are making it really difficult for your horse to carry you.
when you are trotting, dont think so much about rising as about going forwards - when you feel the horse's movement pushing you out of the saddle, try to move your pelvis forwards rather than up, so think "forwards-down" rather than "up-down"

also I agree with the comments about the person speaking on the video - telling you what is wrong is no help - if someone says for example your back is wrong, that's no help! Telling you what to do to fix it, that's what helps!

keep up the good work - you have a lovely horse, and you obviously want to ride well, and if you keep learning from everyone then you will! Good luck!

[coverblown]

had no sound

you ride well and confidently if a little high out of the saddle

reins seem very long

and in the close ups for me the closeness made it seem very jerky I am sure thats not your riding