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<blockquote data-quote="luvs2ride1979" data-source="post: 430505" data-attributes="member: 6733"><p>Find a new trainer, one with more patient and quiet horses, and more knowledge to help you through your issues. Definitely invest in your own helmet ;-).</p><p></p><p>The key to staying on when you're first learning is to RELAX and stay back over your hips. If you tense up and lean forward (which is many people's first reaction to going faster than a walk), then you will end up in the dirt. Always look up, in the direction you want to go (not at the ground), BREATHE, concetrate on relaxing your back, shoulders, and hips, try to feel the horse's movement, and keep your shoulders back.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.gfdressage.com/articles.html" target="_blank">http://www.gfdressage.com/articles.html</a></p><p>This web site has three VERY good artilce on "Seat." They are geared toward the Dressage rider (english riding), but the concepts are universal. Print them out, read them, and take them with you to your next lesson. See if your trainer will help you work on the exercises described. I am teaching my daughter using these fundamentals and she is catching on quicker than any kid I've taught! It really works.</p><p></p><p>Good luck! And watch the "Dog Whisperer"! Use Ceasar's "Calm-Assertive" attitude toward horses, and you'll get the same kind of respect he does from dogs ;-).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="luvs2ride1979, post: 430505, member: 6733"] Find a new trainer, one with more patient and quiet horses, and more knowledge to help you through your issues. Definitely invest in your own helmet ;-). The key to staying on when you're first learning is to RELAX and stay back over your hips. If you tense up and lean forward (which is many people's first reaction to going faster than a walk), then you will end up in the dirt. Always look up, in the direction you want to go (not at the ground), BREATHE, concetrate on relaxing your back, shoulders, and hips, try to feel the horse's movement, and keep your shoulders back. [url=http://www.gfdressage.com/articles.html]http://www.gfdressage.com/articles.html[/url] This web site has three VERY good artilce on "Seat." They are geared toward the Dressage rider (english riding), but the concepts are universal. Print them out, read them, and take them with you to your next lesson. See if your trainer will help you work on the exercises described. I am teaching my daughter using these fundamentals and she is catching on quicker than any kid I've taught! It really works. Good luck! And watch the "Dog Whisperer"! Use Ceasar's "Calm-Assertive" attitude toward horses, and you'll get the same kind of respect he does from dogs ;-). [/QUOTE]
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