That's a toughie! I can think through the difference between leg-yield and shoulder-in, or shoulder-fore, but to tell the truth, it's often a toss-up when I'm trying to ride one or the other.
That's a toughie! I can think through the difference between leg-yield and shoulder-in, or shoulder-fore, but to tell the truth, it's often a toss-up when I'm trying to ride one or the other.
Did you have to go there so soon?! At least let them warm up to the idea of straightness.I just know that will have everyone scratching their heads....lol.
Did you have to go there so soon?! At least let them warm up to the idea of straightness.
Exactly! Often, you can tell which 'hand' is dominant by the way they stand... A 'right-handed' horse will often angle both it's right front and right rear hoof, out toward the right.one of the ways my instructor explained it which made a little light-bulb appear over my head was: its almost like them being right 'handed' and soem left, except they have four legs, lol.
How do you ride 'into' the SI? Give us a step by step. What you do to prepare, where in the ring, etc...When I think "crooked" the next thought is, bring the forehand around a bit to get that inside leg working under more. My aim is to have my horse bending around my inside leg. BUT you know how it goes, sometimes she'll just turn her head, or angle inwards but without much of a bend-- this usually happens because we don't have enough energy goingand I'm not on the seat enough-- anyway, then I get fixated on the sidways-ness, and use my leg further back, or even touch with the whip, but then, I'm quite sure, what I'm getting is a leg-yield...??... What I'm trying to do now is avoid all that, and if I feel she's not coming around the way I want, I go briskly forward, straight ahead.
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LOL!For those of us who aren't in dressage - a lot of this seems Greek. At least to me anyways, though I am trying to understand. I know my horse is crooked because he can't walk a straight line unless its directly towards a lush green patch of grass.
There are various degrees of straightness, much like the various degrees of engagement.This topic of crooked vs. straight is truly a tough nut to crack. Please, bear with me for a minute while I try to sort it out in my head... :wink:
Could the idea of being straight be roughly equated with a person being ambidextrous? That's kind of the impression I'm starting to get, especially with the idea of toes pointing to one side or another according to the "handedness" of the horse. I have seen horses so one sided that I could look at them from the back and see from the muscling which side was dominant, and I know that Scout's weaker on one side because his left lead canter is fast, inverted, and hard to maintain compared to his right lead canter. Is this a manifestation of his crookedness, or simply of his greenness, or both seeing as we both are still so low on the training scale? Please correct me if I've missed the point, something entirely likely. :lol: