Re: Falling off of cliffs

[Chaco L <ChacoL@aol.com>]

In a message dated 98-01-24 08:08:52 EST, jaxson@leopard.com writes:

> 	Erin McChesney (sp?) spoke at the MRER convention last Spring and she
>  talked about your horse responding to your seat bones the way a floatable
>  ball would if you were sitting on it in a swimming pool. If you lean to the
>  left the ball would shoot out from under you to the right and if you leaned
>  back the ball would shoot forward, and so forth. I don't remember her words
>  exactly but I thought it was something to the affect that you "open your
>  horse up" or "free your horse" to go the opposite direction of your weight.
>  

My dressage instructor calls this "opening the door."  Lengthening the leg and
applying pressure in the seat bone on the inside, while keeping the outside
leg off the horse "opens the door" to the outside.