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Re: [RC] posting?? manes??//Angie/Stirrup Length - Beverley H. Kane, MDAngie--Certainly you know what works best for you. (Tho, I too have felt the mortification of being videotaped with the resulting film title, Curious George Rides a Horse.) Intuitively, and for my body, shortening the stirrups results in some destabilization of the legs and body. The shorter the stirrups, the more bent the knees. The more bent the knees, the more I tend toward bum out, chest forward, bigger angle for the pelvis to rise through, more work for the quads and knees, more angled contact w/ inner thighs. Hence all this practice posting w/o stirrups, as others have mentioned, so the post comes from the motion of the horse, the thrust of the pelvis, and light contact w/ the inner thigh--not by pushing off w/ the feet. My Arab mare has a really rough trot (tho...I can now actually -sit- it in my Barefoot Cheyenne.) So I try to ride w/ stirrups as long as possible, still being able to keep heels down. (I suspect a lot of people w/ knee problems are riding w/ stirrups too short.) When I did my Sports Medicine Fellowship, we dissected the gaits of runners in slo mo video on ourselves and on world champions. It has never ceased to amaze me how theoretically bad a runner's biomechanics can be and they're still champions and pain free. Beverley ----- Original Message ----- From: <rides2far@xxxxxxxx> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:55 AM Subject: RE: [RC] posting?? manes?? [snip]. Before an endurance ride I have to shorten my stirrups a lot on Kaboot just to make my "up" arch long enough to come down when he does and not have to tip toe. Does that make sense? I readjust my stirrups a lot. If I plan to ride slowly, I ride with them longer but if my horses are going to do their power trot I can't maintain what feels like the correct position, with ankles, knees and hips relaxed and in that "perpetual motion" groove unless my stirrups are shorter and I'm up longer. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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