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I'm with you, Angie: I prefer the left!  And I think you're right that 
we don't always change our body position completely when we change 
diagonals.  If it doesn't rain again tomorrow, I'm going to try to 
observe what I do when I change diagonals.  At least I know enough to do 
that frequently.
Laney

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > My horse has low heel on his left front, throws me onto the right
> > diagonal after about 3 strides. Yes, we have diagonal wars going.
> > Sometimes I just give up and 2-point a lot.
>
> I tend to swear all horses throw me on their left. A friend of mine
> claimed all hers threw her on her right and her current horse would not
> let her ride the left. Then she was out sick for a while and I campaigned
> her horse...guess what. Seemed to me that he wanted me on the left. I
> believe it is more a rider issue that becomes a horse issue if the same
> person rides them long enough.
>
> I agree totally with Kat that it's easier to ride our unaccustomed
> diagonal for short periods.  After Melissa Crain told us she changes
> every 6 beats we started trying that. (I heard Earl Baxter changes every
> 10). Melissa goes along singing "Cruising along in my Pink Cadillac".  I
> like, "Shall, we dance...bom bom bom bom (good place to change diagonals)
> shall we walze with each other shall we dance...bom bom bom bom. :-)
>
> I believe that as a confirmed left diagonal preference person I ride with
> my hips ever so slightly cocked to that angle. If I check just what
> contact I have with my seat bones and then when I switch to the right
> change to the point that I have that contact in reverse, I can ride the
> right better. (If I'm riding with the reins in one hand I switch rein
> hand.)  I think our problem is we don't change our seat when we change
> our diagonal.
>
> Angie (untrained, but tries to be observant)
>
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