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Location: USA | What's the best way to teach someone to sit deep in their saddle for the barrel turn? I was talking to someone about doing this and they couldn't quite get it figured out and I ran out of ways to explain the process. I figured y'all could help me out here! Her saddle isn't too small and her stirrups are good. She's just developed a bad habit of not being able to tuck her butt and sit on her pockets when going into the turn, and therefore isn't maintaining the correct position. She gets a little too forward in her upper body when coming out of the turn also. She does great when trotting and slow loping, but anything faster and she loses it. Anything y'all can think of to help?? |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Throw your feet ahead. If your feet are in front of you, then your butt is down and you're not leaning forward. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | My Dad stuck $5 bills barely under my butt and if I kept them there during a run I got to keep them. Otherwise i'd lose the $5... We upgraded to $20s when I got older lol.
He also Took my stirrups from me for a week when I lost them during a run. I remember asking him one day if he was gonna pull my saddle for a week because I had fell off LOL He pulled It for two! |
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 The Bling Princess
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Location: North Dakota | I remember Ed Wright once telling me to act like someone punched me in the stomach by my belly button. The action is creates is to roll those hips more under yourself, thus driving you on your seat bones. |
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| I used to be told try to get your jean pockets to stick to the seat if that makes sense? It's not exactly like that but idk how else to explain it? Lol. |
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| Video? And how old and experienced is the person? Some things just take a while to click for different people depending on experience level and age.
I think it depends on your style, personally. I sit...but not what I would consider on my pockets. I'm a forward rider to begin with and I couldn't figure out how to sit on my pockets and not come out of the barrel left behind. Just doesn't click with me. I have my feet under me and my touches the saddle, but I wouldn't call it sitting on my pockets.
It works for us. That's the glorious thing about barrel racing - if it works for you and you're fast that's all that matters. |
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Location: South MS | Dreamingofcans - 2014-06-18 1:23 PM What's the best way to teach someone to sit deep in their saddle for the barrel turn? I was talking to someone about doing this and they couldn't quite get it figured out and I ran out of ways to explain the process. I figured y'all could help me out here! Her saddle isn't too small and her stirrups are good. She's just developed a bad habit of not being able to tuck her butt and sit on her pockets when going into the turn, and therefore isn't maintaining the correct position. She gets a little too forward in her upper body when coming out of the turn also. She does great when trotting and slow loping, but anything faster and she loses it. Anything y'all can think of to help??
ALL of the kids I teach - I tell them to squeeze their butt cheeks - they think its funny and laugh but it does the trick - as when you squeeze your hips roll and make you sit deep |
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Location: naz, tx | don't know if this will help teach it better when she speeds up, but it's interesting.....
http://www.barrelracingtips.com/ride-your-barrel-horse-better-with-the-power-seat
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Location: Around here somewhere... | Try having her hold her cantle with one hand (fingers under the cantle, thumb toward her butt) and tell her to sit on her thumb while walking, then trotting, etc. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | The book "Centered Riding" IMO has the best imagery for achieving certain postures. It helped me tremendously as a teen and I still use the things I learned from it in my riding today. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Since this is a teaching....have rider drop stirrups for the turn have one hand on the rein and the other PUSHING on the horn as if to shove that horn away from you and trying to shove that hiney out the back end. |
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