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Location: Northern Ontario | Ok, its a bit weird I know. My mare has a smooth very flat canter that is super easy to.sit.She is more of an all around horse than a barrel horse. My new horse has an engaged, rocking horse canter which is alot harder to sit. I mostly have a good balanced seat but for some reason, I tense up at a second of his canter and it makes me bounce a bit. I want my butt to stick to the saddle every second of the canter.. any tips? |
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| I'm not sure if this will help but when I was learning to really sit in a canter, I was told to envision that my jean pockets were glued to the seat! That really helped me. Or even envisioning the bones you sit on aren't allowed to slip in the saddle. Maybe even riding him bareback even if you don't canter him would help give you some extra balance and get you use to his style. I'm having some of that trouble right now so I'm making myself ride bareback for awhile until I feel like I'm more in sync and my balance is better with mine
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| For me at all gaits it’s helpful to make sure I can feel my seat bones on my saddle seat. If your tense and tight, your gluts get in the way and you can’t “melt” down around the horse. If you can feel the saddle with your seat bones you’re relaxed, your hips are loose and able to move with the motion of the horse. Sink through each leg down around your horse and engage your core.
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Location: Somewhere around here | I learned how to ride the a long time ago with an Andalusian made that was spooky to boot. If you don't know what an Andalusian is, go check them out! Anyways, she had a VERY rocking horse/rocking chair type of lope that was just natural for her. The best tips I learned were to really ride with your hips, swing them with your horse. As a dressage trainer once said "Shoulders like a Queen, hips like a whore" lol!
My current horse gets like this when I'm asking him to lope when he's excited on trail so I've had a good reminder lately on how to sit it. The more you relax your glute muscles, they better off you are. |
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Location: Northern Ontario | Thanks! I will try all those things. I don't get it. I can sit a hard spook or buck, nothing gets me off but I can't sit the canter properly  |
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| Is it a young horse? My current young one was like driving a car with square wheels when I first started her. Took about a year for her to balance out. She was also pretty down hill.
As far as sitting it better, like someone said bareback is great, ride without stirrups, have someone put you on a lunge etc. You'll probably just need miles to get used to her. |
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Location: Northern Ontario | Ya....he is a 3yr old and pretty lanky and bum high right now |
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Location: the end of the rainbow | I'm going against the norm and suggesting you lighten your seat instead of sitting deap. Square your shoulders, sit up straight, put some weight in your stirrups so that your seat bones feel light in your saddle. Loosen your hips. Drop a little bit of weight on your outside pocket & cue the lope with your outside leg. Then square your hips back up as soon as she lopes off. If you ride softer in your seat you are less likely to be bounced by an uneven gait. You are also less likely to be driving her hind end with your seat. It may take some practice for her to balance herself underneath you when you aren't driving with your butt but she will be more able to round her back up underneath the saddle and collect better, hopefully smoothing out her lope.
Edited by willrodeo4food 2018-06-29 12:25 PM
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