Mary Wanless, an internationally famend dressage coach and rider biomechanics specialist, shares some helpful recommendation on how right biomechanics can positively have an effect on efficiency.
1. The way in which by which you place your limbs, how steady you might be and the way you’ll be able to affect your horse is finished by way of the biomechanics of your physique. The extra sturdy and steady, but supple you might be in your physique, (i.e the place the rider has good biomechanics), the extra they’ll positively affect their horse.
2. As you might be sat in your horse, your shoulder, hip and heel ought to all align. Take into consideration whether or not you’ll land in your ft, in stability in case your horse was taken from beneath you.
3. Your thigh bone ought to be 45 levels to the vertical for optimum effectiveness.
4. Most riders fall into one in every of two classes — they’re both hole or spherical backed. Riders ought to be impartial and vertical of their again positions, the place the gap from seat to neck is similar quantity on each the entrance and rear of a rider’s higher physique.
5. It’s also widespread for riders to both fall into the up or down class of their seat. ‘Up’ riders are inclined to experience just like the saddle may be very sizzling, and can sit very tall, whereas ‘down’ riders plonk within the saddle with a heavier seat. Riders with good biomechanics will match in-between these two classes.
6. Riders have to have the identical quantity of weight by way of each seatbones.
7. The ‘up’ motion of a rider in rising trot ought to match the ahead thrust of their horse.
8. There ought to be no motion from the knee down within the rider’s leg in rising trot. Equally, riders shouldn’t hole their backs on the high of the rise.
9. The contact space between horse and rider ought to be the equal of the realm of a full-seated pair of breeches. The rider’s weight ought to be distributed over the horse’s ribcage
10. Good rider biomechanics isn’t essentially about how relaxed they’re, however is extra about good use of their muscle tissue and power (which isn’t at all times that stress-free!) to stabilise themselves on the horse.
11. To experience successfully, riders want to have interaction their core muscle tissue — take into consideration sucking your tummy in to make a wall after which push your core out in opposition to that wall.
12. Riders should be equally nicely ‘stuffed’ with power by way of their our bodies.
13. There ought to be extra weight by way of your thigh than in your foot.
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