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Re: [RC] Stirrup Length - Sharon Levasseur

I'm living proof that your first paragraph is also true for people with long
legs.  I'm 5'8" and wear jeans with a 34" inseam... and as I stated I use
shortish stirrups to compensate for that "scopy trot" which you described so
much better than I did!!

-Sharon "I need to stop posting on Ridecamp and get back to work" Levasseur
www.zegifts.com




Quoting Diane Trefethen <tref@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

...If you have shortish legs,
when riding a horse with a big, scopy trot, it is impossible to avoid
getting your pelvis whacked on every stride if you have stirrups that are
"as long as possible" while "still being able to keep heels down".  Why?
Because the horse's motion is so high and long that you cannot get out of
his way.  As he rises, you are not pushed up out of the saddle - you are
carried in the saddle.  Then as his back starts to fall, the momentum from
being pushed upward drives you higher.  You peak and start down and smack
into the now rising on the next stride saddle, once again to be carried
upwards.  With shorter stirrups, some of that upthrust can be absorbed by
the uncoiling of the knees so that at the peak of the stride, all the
kinetic energy has been dissipated, your upward momentum relative to the
saddle is zero, and you can descend as the saddle falls.

If you have longer legs, the only way you could possibly begin to
appreciate the problem would be to imagine that you are on a 25 hand tall
horse whose trot was commensurate with it's height.  In that situation, you
too would not be able to stop rising after the horse's stride peaked...
unless you shortened your stirrups.


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