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Here is a funny question:

How many chuckers do you have to attempt this ,before you can make it 200-400meters without getting knocked off your horse by the polo ponies and riders?

Been couped up in house to many days.Please excuse my humor.

Matt

Tracey Lomax <bandipops@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Angie, the best indicator of how straight you are sitting in the saddle
> is your horse. 
>
> Try this : find a large, flat area (I use the local polo field but any
> big field will do). Pick a point about 200 meters away. Take your feet
> out of the stirrup and ride for that point. Your horse should move
> STRAIGHT towards it (terrain permitting) and not veer off in one way or
> another. If he does, instead of applying leg or hand aids to shift him,
> use your weight and see what happens. Generally, a
>  horse will try to
> move back underneath you. So, if you are leaning right, a horse is apt
> to move right, in order to get underneath you again as he's more
> comfortable when you're sitting straight. 
>
> Don't confuse weight aids with seat bones. Totally different concept as
> seat bones can be "driving" aids (DQ's don't yell at me, I know they're
> not really but they work differently than the weight aids I'm talking
> about).
>
> If you can do this for 200 meters then try it for 400. When you can do
> it straight on for 400 meters THEN start asking for it in rising, and
> then sitting trot, and finally canter.
>
> Remember, though, that a canter isn't a "straight" movement, like walk
> and trot, because the horse should be bent round the leg. But that's a
> different discussion for an evening when I haven't been up since five
> and in court all
>  day.
>
> Tracey
>
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