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Hunter/Jumpers have shorter stirrup lengths for support during jumping, too 
long a stirrrup jumping and your leg often slings back and messes up your 
balance. And the higher you jump the more you shorten your stirrups.
  Also  kids often post off their feet as they don't have the leg strength 
to post off their thighs.Then you don't have to go so high, just lifting 
your seat up. Practice posting without stirrups to find out  if you post off 
your feet or thighs or just to strengthen your muscles.(on a safe horse in a 
safe area of course). (My daughter teaches kids huntseat)
  Usually they shorten a hole on their stirrups for each foot up or so.
I personally ride with shorter stirrups cause I ride lots of hills, I tried 
lengthening them when I got my new saddle, but couldn't support my seat 
going up and down hills as well, so I ride with it at ankle or one up.Can't 
2 pt. very well with long stirrups.  Laurie


> From: Ridecamp Guest <guest-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [RC]   Keeping one's seat
> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:22:55 GMT
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> Please Reply to: Ray O'Donohue rno2m@xxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>    I think a lot of this is less quantifiable than some instructors or 
> authors think it is. Photos of "correct" stirrup length and "correct" 
> hands...well,maybe. As one who has had MORE than his share of wrecks,I 
> humbly offer one suggestion to the ridecamp folks(most of whom are no doubt 
> better riders than me):consider longer stirrup leather length. I go by a 
> riding ring on the way home each day,and I see the young lesson girls 
> posting to an absurd height.How can this possibly be advantageous? Why 
> would a rider want to be any more than " a bit of daylight" above the 
> saddle ? There may be some advantage to this(?),but there is definitly a 
> disadvantage in terms of polar momentum,and "feel".When the ____ begins to 
> hit the fan,the closer you are to your horse's spine,the quicker you will 
> feel it coming,and the more likely you are to keep that seat.Chico taught 
> me this.
>
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