Question # 219: I'm loving the site so far! Sooo long story short, I'm a smallish person 5'2" 120lbs. My teenage years and young twenties I always rode really big horses that...
...could have cared less about my then 100lbs on their back. So the result was I ended up riding more with my hands then off my seat and legs. I had a good seat and solid leg, but I never felt very effective. Fast forward 13 years, my horse is 15.1, so I acually fit him nicely. And he's a pretty sensitive guy (sometimes to a fault... typical chestnut), so I vowed this time around to become a more effective rider by learning to use my seat and legs properly. I was wondering if you had any good exercises that I could use to work on getting my horse to become more responsive to those aids? Any advice is greatly appreciated. (Amy)
Hi Amy!
Good for you for having that goal! Some riders seem to just go through life riding with loud and somewhat ineffective aids, without making a real effort or commitment to bettering themselves (as in, "it's always the horse's fault.") But since horses are easily desensitized to loud, constant, or confusing aids... to the point that they can completely tune them out if necessarry, it is up to US as riders to keep our horses fine tuned to our aids. They key is to... (Click on Question Title above (in blue) to read full answer)
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