Advanced Western Riding. Kara L Stewart

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СКАЧАТЬ and the lope, three. Don’t drive with your seat to increase your horse’s speed, which actually makes many horses slow down or stop because the pressure puts their weight on their forehand. Don’t squeeze or kick harder with your legs. Instead, try changing the tempo. For example, if you want to increase the speed of the walk, increase the tempo of the four-beat rhythm in your head. It’s not an obvious change or force of movement; however, it allows your body to move to the new tempo.

      As you’re doing this, keep your hips and knees relaxed because gripping and tightening will just restrict your horse’s movement. Sure, horses can and do learn to move well, even when their riders hinder their natural flowing movement, but it’s easier when you can help facilitate rather than hinder their movements.

      You can also use rhythm and beat to change gaits through upward and downward transitions. Try picking up a nice flowing walk. Notice the definite four-beat movement and count the beat aloud or silently. If your body is soft and not braced in any of your joints, your hips will rotate in a sort of figure-eight pattern: up, forward, down, and back in time with the horse’s walk. Notice that each of your hips moves independently to follow the two halves of your horse’s back, which also move independently.

      Now, to transition to a nice jog, change the four-beat rhythm into two beats in your head, and allow your body to pick up this beat. Horses are so sensitive that they often will change their gait to match your new rhythm. Try it and see. If you don’t get the change of gait to the jog, add a little leg and be sure to release your leg as soon as you feel the increase in energy. Then play with changing your internal beat from two to three beats to ask for a lope.

      Your horse may not immediately change gaits when you change the tempo in your head and in your body; but the more aware you are of rhythm and beat, the more you can use it to become a better rider and a more effective partner with your horse.

      Try changing gaits by changing the rhythm in your head. Here a horse and rider transition from a walk to a jog.

      TAKE A LAP ON THE LONGE

      One proven way to enhance your balance and seat is to take advantage of lessons on the longe (or lunge) line. Riding on the longe is not just for beginners, so take longe-line lessons whenever you can. Even the most advanced riders spend time on the longe line to improve their abilities.

      While your trainer sends your horse out in a circle, you are free to concentrate on how it feels to move with your horse at different gaits and maintain balance and stability while in motion. Without the need for reins to steer or slow your horse, you’ll also discover whether you’re relying on the reins for balance. If you are, this can come as a big surprise, especially if you didn’t previously believe that you were.

      During your longe lessons, focus on keeping your breathing rhythmic and in time with the gait, and breathe into your ribs rather than your chest. See how many strides you get with a single inhale, then a single exhale, and play with increasing this interval.

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