Also i was wondering when your posting, how far your supposed to stand.When your riding English and your doing a posting trot?
not so far that you straighten your legs, but you need to get at least a half foot up. other than that tho maybe watching your horse and trying to get a better feel for his rhythm could help you.When your riding English and your doing a posting trot?
well sometimes you will need to just be able to feel that change. also looking down at the horses shoulder you could tell with that too. i'm sorry to say this but once again you should just be able to feel a difference like unbalanced or choppy.
if your horse is very supple it can be hard to tel but wen you are doing circles you can often feel unbalanced when rising
also wen u rise it should be very little as you dont actually 'stand' you use abdominal and thigh musceles to help life your seat out of the sadle WITHOUT tensing you have to be very fit to do this but it will improve your overall seat if you can do this properly :)
You are supposed to be up when the horse's outside leg is forward. If you actually pay really good attention to the feel of it, when you are posting like this, it feels smoother. If you are up while the inside leg is forward it should feel like an uneven rhythm. This is called the diagonal. You are posting on the right diagonal when you post.
You should go up far enough that the bottom of your bottom isn't touching the seat, but not so far that your leg is totally straight. There should be a bend in your knee, but not as much of an angle as it would be if you were just sitting on the horse. So about 2-3 inches is how far I go up. Just don't go up as far as you would be in a 2-point.
Good luck :)
as far as how high, it just goes with the natural rythm of your horse if you are relaxed you will just fall into the right rythm and height, you dont want it to look fake or exaggerated, so just relax and go with your horse. you should feel it when you are posting on the wrong lead, as it is kind of like driving a car with a flat, when you go to turn a corner you will know that you are on the wrong lead, just sit out one beat and get back into rythm. it takes time but with practice you will soon do it without a thought, doing figure eights is a good way to practice lead changes. good luck to you.
It takes a while to be able to feel it. You know when you feel unbalanced. On some horses it is more noticeable than others. You can look and check by thinking ';Rise and fall with the foot on the wall.'; I chanted that for my whole first year of riding in the trot.
When your posting you should have a closed hip angle almost so that your leaning forward. You should post with an even weight in your stirrups as when you are sitting. Think post with your thighs. I know you didn't ask but alot of people don't know that fo their first few years!
You should post so that you are rising out of the saddle but so that your horse is not throwing you into the air. You should have a bent knee. Try to go out of the saddle as little as possible. Like this... http://www.majodastables.com/Web%20Size%鈥?/a>
Also... http://horses.about.com/od/learntoride/h鈥?/a>
Rise and fall with the shoulder on the wall.
So when the shoulder is going forward, you're up. When the shoulder is behind, you're going down.
As far as ';standing'; usually you can get a pretty good feel for it with your horses movement. Don't straighten or lock your knees. Don't do too much, do what feels comfortable for you.
You're supposed to sit when you can see the shoulder going back! Just look down and have a look at which way the shoulders of the horse are moving, it's dead simple. I love the ';rise and fall with the foot on the wall'; that someone else said - that's a good reminder for you!
As for how high you should stand, not too far. You should be able to stand comfortably in your stirrups, but just high enough that you're ';off the horse's back'; and able to follow the rhythm. If you stand all the way up off the saddle then you look uncontrolled and a little silly. Ask your instructor (if you have one) if you're rising too high or not.
easy, just look down at his outside shoulder, which is the shoulder facing the rail(try not to make it obvious) when his leg is going forward, you should be going up, when it's back, you should be going down. When I go up, I arch my back and lift my butt out of the saddle, I don't ';stand up';. I go about 5 inches out the saddle. I use to exaggerate and go straight up into the air.
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