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Going into all training systems and going very technical, that is what I used to do, the way you do now, that is what most of my modern dressage instructors did and I only got confused and lost confidence.
These generalizations are what get us both into trouble. This implies that I am so detail oriented that I loose the forrest for the trees, and that my students live in a state of confusion. I myself tend to throw out sentences like this without thinking enough about how they come across, and I know you ment no harm by it.
Oh Danee, I only just saw this and I deeply apologise for explaining myself so poorly.
With 'now' I meant only 'now in this message of yours'.
I have never seen you teach so I can not say anything about it
@ Miriam, you point your right hip forward and your horse bends to the left?
I sat in O for a few minutes in the cold over his blanket without anything. I can't ride proper now as he is very stiff from the cold... And Jamie was there too irritating O (yiiiks), but O found it okay for a few minutes just so I could check this.
Now when I do as I explained he simply turns and quite correct, keeping weight of his inside shoulder. When I turn my pelvis, my outside leg goes backwards because my - belly to leg - line makes a larger angle and my inside leg stays long, my shoulders line up with the O's shoulders and O turns.
It only works when I have my pelvis tilted the right way though.
When I point my inside hip forwards, my outside leg also goes back, but my inside leg goes to the front a little.
Now Owen just went straight, then when I turned my upperbody into the direction I wanted to go, O indeed turned.
My pelvis sacked out to the front though and O went a bit more on to the forehand...
Argh Can't wait for Spring to come and be able to experiment with O...
And I am afraid one of my pupils is guinea pig this evening...