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 Morale Booster!!
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| This may be a dumb question, but since I have come back to barrel racing after taking 7 years off to take kids to high school rodeos, I can seem to sit in my turn and my mare really wants to turn out from under me. There fore, I feel I am coming off or I pull on the reins to get my balance. I tell myself to sit and really pull with my horn, but I cant get it. Or I get it for a couple of runs and then its gone again. Any suggestions? |
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  More bootie than waist!
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          Location: Riding Crackhead. | Build muscle memory doing slow work. I don't care if its at a walk you go through the exact same motions you do during a run until its stuck in your head. |
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I just read the headlines
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| Instead of pulling on the horn, push on it. I was taught to pull up leaving the barrel and push down to keep your butt in the saddle during the turn. |
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| I wonder if you need a saddle with a deeper seat to help? I have the opposite problem, I sit too much..lol |
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 Don't Wanna Make This Awkward
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   Location: Texas | newracer - 2014-09-21 9:30 PM I wonder if you need a saddle with a deeper seat to help? I have the opposite problem, I sit too much..lol
What saddle do you ride in? Lol I would love to have that problem |
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I'm Over It!!
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| Before you go looking for another saddle, try letting your stirrups down a notch or two. They may be too short. |
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| outrundaizy - 2014-09-21 11:00 PM
newracer - 2014-09-21 9:30 PM I wonder if you need a saddle with a deeper seat to help? I have the opposite problem, I sit too much..lol
What saddle do you ride in? Lol I would love to have that problem
Like another person said, try maybe lowering your stirrups. I ride in a Shiloh by Cecil Phillips. It sits me back and deep quite a bit. I also have a Sady Lane which is very similar to Triple Creek.
I also have a friend who drilled it in my head to sit sit sit. After I flew off my free running mare in the turn, I really had to change my way of riding. |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
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       Location: In The Snow, AZ | I have a problem sitting in the first turn. Then after I bobbled all over the place, regained balance, and a few choice words, I usually remember to sit the second two. |
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