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Location: on my horse | I've been having a hell of a time staying centered on my mare around a barrel and the post about weighting your outside stirrup got me thinking. I don't have any video of her and I turning anything yet but I'm wondering if I can get some suggestions anyway.
She turns different than any of my other horses I've run barrels on its like she gets into 4x4 and digs her way around a barrel while my other horses have been more of the top of the ground type of runners that almost slide around a barrel. I've been working on getting her shoulders freed up which has helped because she wanted to get kind of over bent around the barrel as well and occasionally wants to drop her shoulder especially to the right.
I think part of my issue is she's only like 14.1/14.2 hh which is a good hand shorter than anything else I've ever run and she's built like a box to boot. I've been working on staying super balanced and sitting down in slow work and just riding in general but I turned a barrel yesterday and still feel like I'm losing it, all over the place, and out of balance. The girls I ride with say it looks ok but it FEELS wrong so I think it probably is wrong.
Advice suggestions or just tell me to suck it up and its going to take time to get used to her feel?
She's pretty fit, we have a saddle that fits well and she's on a regular farrier and chiropractic schedule (so am I lol) |
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| Is it possible that your stirrups are too long? With out a video it is hard to give advice. |
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Location: on my horse | cyount2009 - 2015-05-15 12:57 PM
Is it possible that your stirrups are too long? With out a video it is hard to give advice.
I know 
it is possible they are too long, I've been favoring a knee lately and haven't messed with stirrups between dry work and pattern work. I need to get my balance figured out because i feel like I'm getting in her way with this going on. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | If only there was a video...perhaps I could advise you too. |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | You could try the Magic Cushion to keep you in place... |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | I saw something on FB the other day... if I can find it I will tag you. It was an excercise.
ETA I found it check your FB
Edited by barrelracr131 2015-05-15 2:20 PM
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:19 PM I saw something on FB the other day... if I can find it I will tag you. It was an excercise.
ETA I found it check your FB
The Kegal Maneuver??? |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:18 PM You could try the Magic Cushion to keep you in place...
ITS MAGIC SEAT
hahahaha
Magic CUshion is hoof pack. |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:21 PM LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:18 PM You could try the Magic Cushion to keep you in place... ITS MAGIC SEAT
hahahaha
Magic CUshion is hoof pack.
Whatever. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:20 PM barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:19 PM I saw something on FB the other day... if I can find it I will tag you. It was an excercise.
ETA I found it check your FB The Kegal Maneuver???
Yes that's my favorite |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:21 PM barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:21 PM LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:18 PM You could try the Magic Cushion to keep you in place... ITS MAGIC SEAT
hahahaha
Magic CUshion is hoof pack.
BOOM HOW YA LIKE ME NOW
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:21 PM LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:20 PM barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:19 PM I saw something on FB the other day... if I can find it I will tag you. It was an excercise.
ETA I found it check your FB The Kegal Maneuver???
Does it work?? |
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Location: Midwest | LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:22 PM barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:21 PM LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:20 PM barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:19 PM I saw something on FB the other day... if I can find it I will tag you. It was an excercise.
ETA I found it check your FB The Kegal Maneuver???
I tagged you on it too, sucka |
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Location: on my horse | barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 1:23 PM
LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:22 PM barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:21 PM LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:20 PM barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:19 PM I saw something on FB the other day... if I can find it I will tag you. It was an excercise.
ETA I found it check your FB The Kegal Maneuver???
nothing on FB |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | I will try again I don't think you were that gals FB and prob couldn't see it.
Edited by barrelracr131 2015-05-15 2:29 PM
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | redmansmyman11 - 2015-05-15 2:26 PM barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 1:23 PM LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:22 PM barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:21 PM LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:20 PM barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:19 PM I saw something on FB the other day... if I can find it I will tag you. It was an excercise.
ETA I found it check your FB The Kegal Maneuver??? nothing on FB
Me neither sucka. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | try again dangit |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | What does open you upper body mean?? |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:31 PM What does open you upper body mean??
shoulders back instead of slouching and hunching over
aka stick out your boobs |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | barrelracr131 - 2015-05-15 2:32 PM LRQHS - 2015-05-15 2:31 PM What does open you upper body mean?? shoulders back instead of slouching and hunching over
aka stick out your boobs
ohhhhh, now that I understand. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Your horse is probably diving if you can't get balanced.Be sure to rate and push on the horn to set you in the saddle. |
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Location: on my horse | Definitely feels like she dives from time to time so I've really been working at getting all her body parts freed up stood up and working right off the pattern and on, what else can I do to help with that? |
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Location: Florida | Many years ago Martha Josey told me I needed to "ride my crack". I had a good idea what she meant, but didn't really get it until several years later. I was on the upper deck of a smallish boat going out to a dive reef and we hit rought water. On the upper deck we had those plastic chairs everyone has. Nothing to hold on to. One of my fellow divers said don't tense up, sit deep into the chair and move with it. It really worked on a boat, so I thought about how I ride. It works on a horse too. Sit deep, ride your crack and don't brace so much on your legs. Let your body stay centered with your saddle horn and you will be fine. Just relax and "ride your crack.." |
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Staying centered in your turns