TRAINING TIP: Filling the reins - Trot, you have a pretty nice contact with both reins, you lose contact on one rein. Some will try to regain the contact and will shorten the rein or return hand a little back. Unfortunately, this often produces a crooked hip of the rider exactly at this side. If the reason of loosing the contact is the relaxation (skip) of one hindleg, the shorten of this rein would be contraproductiv. In fact, you brake and slow down the activity of exactly that shoulder (and hindleg) you should activate! You feel this hesitation and try to activate with legs. Subsequently, the horse will go over the other shoulder. You want to prevent this wrong movement and get more contact at this side and again try to force activity of hindlegs, the horse move to the other shoulder. The horse starts to become unstable, the frontlegs are no longer in the trace of the hindlegs, the horse begins to swing the neck (and the shoulder) from one side to the other - a snake horse arises!
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:50:27 +0000
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