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Location: CentralTexas | I've recently gotten into the bad habit of finishing my barrels with my elbows in the air. I'm also doing it between barrels. How can I break this habit? I always remember at Josey clinics when they tied your elbows behind your back with rubber bands and made you practice. It's ruining my turns. HELP! |
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Location: Jersey Girl | Practice practice practice |
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | you could use rubber bands, or you could practice with a dressage whip behind your back with your elbows holding it there. it will be great for your posture and you can actually do it without needing someone to tie your arms down! lol muscle memory |
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Location: CentralTexas | fulltiltfilly - 2014-09-06 4:09 PM
Practice practice practice
I don't do it at home. My patterns at home are flawless, it's only when we are going 9-0 that I look like a chicken. |
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 Saint Stacey
| Rubber bands attached to your belt loops and then run your arms through them. They make huge rubber bands that work great for this! That's how I broke my daughter when she was 10. One session with those bands and she never chicken flipped again, lol! |
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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | Place a 100 dollar bill in each arm pit before you run. |
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 Playing the Waiting Game
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| Ride every day with the money under your elbows... BUT I have used newspapers... they cost less and try to keep the ads from falling out. |
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 BHW Resident Surgeon
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | One thing that helped me with that bad habit was pole bending, believe it or not. I taught myself to keep my hands closer together and use them much less than in barrels. If I am concentrating on my lower body and legs more, I tend not to flap, for some reason. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | HotbearLVR - 2014-09-07 5:32 PM One thing that helped me with that bad habit was pole bending, believe it or not. I taught myself to keep my hands closer together and use them much less than in barrels. If I am concentrating on my lower body and legs more, I tend not to flap, for some reason.
I agree Doc. I have a super nice pole horse that you just sit there and let him work. He really helped me on my barrel horse to ride quieter. Sadly my pole horse is having soundness issues and I haven't been able to run him in a year. I can really tell it running barrels. I need a tune up. |
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 Purveyor of unconventional wisdom
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Location: CA | All we are doing is trying to stay out of our horses way. At the barrel pull to your pants pocket, there is no outward elbow there. Between the cans think of it as reducing wind resistance. Keept your elbows in so you can go faster. It also steadies your seat, keeps you balanced.
Oh and it makes your boobs look bigger.. lol |
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Keeping elbows down during run