{"id":134,"date":"2009-04-02T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2009-04-02T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:33:11","slug":"skateboarding-skiing-teeter-totters-and-horse-back-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/skateboarding-skiing-teeter-totters-and-horse-back-riding\/","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding, Skiing, Teeter-Totters and Horse Back Riding"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/authover.css\" media=\"screen\" \/>\r\n\t       <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/simplemodel.css\" media=\"screen\"\/>\r\n\t          <script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n\tsrc=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery-1.7.2.min.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery.simplemodal.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/authover.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\t\tvar jq = jQuery.noConflict();\r\n\t\t\t\tfunction openPopup(url,width,height,delay,useajax,iframe,exitt){\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\talert(url);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tauthover.configure({\r\n\t\t\t\t\tiFrameAttribute : {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"name\" : \"autFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"id\" : \"authFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"src\" : \"http:\/\/wikipedia.com\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"height\" : \"100%\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"width\" : \"100%\"\r\n\t\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\t\tmodalContent : url,\r\n\t\t\t\twidth : width,\r\n\t\t\t\theight : height,\r\n\t\t\t\tdelay : delay,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupUseAjax: 0,\r\n\t\t\t\ttargetUseIframe: iframe,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupIsRedirect: useajax,\r\n\t\t\t\texitAlertText: exitt\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t\tauthover.triggerModal();\r\nreturn false;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/script><p><strong>Skateboarding, Skiing, Teeter-Totters and Horse Back Riding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a note from Chad in response to the tip<br \/>\nI sent out a couple days ago titled<br \/>\n&#8220;Is Your Horse Really Halter Broke?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never thought there was so much to halter<br \/>\nbreakin a horse, but after I tried and worked<br \/>\nmy colt for about four hours it really started<br \/>\nto pay off.<\/p>\n<p>thanks for all your doin with these training tips.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<\/p>\n<p>Back to today&#8217;s tip&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Skateboarding, Skiing, Teeter-Totters<br \/>\nand Horse Back Riding&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Are you left or right handed?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re right handed, you&#8217;re more &#8216;n<br \/>\nlikely left dominant.<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>This.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever skateboarded (is that a word?)<br \/>\nthen you likely had your left foot forward and<br \/>\nwere more comfortable turning with that foot<br \/>\nforward than with your right foot forward.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because you&#8217;re left dominant.<\/p>\n<p>Ever skied?<\/p>\n<p>If so, when you went down hill, you<br \/>\nmay have noticed that when you turned to the<br \/>\nright your left foot was the leading foot.<\/p>\n<p>It was easier to turn to the right<br \/>\nthan it was to the left when your right foot<br \/>\nwas leading.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because you&#8217;re left dominant.<\/p>\n<p>So what?<\/p>\n<p>What most people don&#8217;t know is this<br \/>\napplies to riding a horse too.<\/p>\n<p>You see, you have a dominant side.<\/p>\n<p>This means you will usually sit to<br \/>\none side more than the other.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a natural thing we do.<\/p>\n<p>When you sit to one side or the other,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re not sitting in the middle of your<br \/>\nhorse.<\/p>\n<p>That means he has to adjust himself<br \/>\nto accommodate you sitting off center.<\/p>\n<p>It will cause your horse&#8217;s hip to<br \/>\nmove in a way it wouldn&#8217;t normally do had<br \/>\nthe rider been sitting centered.<\/p>\n<p>Once the horse&#8217;s hip is out of place<br \/>\nbecause he&#8217;s adjusting for the rider, then<br \/>\neverything else goes catty-whompous.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you really do sit centered.<\/p>\n<p>To know for sure, have someone film<br \/>\nyou riding.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d bet all my dimes you&#8217;re sitting<br \/>\non that dominant hip side. (Unless you&#8217;re an<br \/>\naccomplished rider)<\/p>\n<p>If you are, then you&#8217;re causing your<br \/>\nhorse to go off balance to accommodate and he<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t do what you&#8217;d like as well as he could&#8230;<br \/>\nsuch as spins or lead changes.<\/p>\n<p>If you find you should practice sitting<br \/>\nmore centered, there are exercises you can<br \/>\ndo to help solve it.<\/p>\n<p>But truly, one the most helpful things<br \/>\nabout it is just being aware of it.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the many things Diana<br \/>\nQuintana reveals in her two DVD&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read about them, click on each<br \/>\nof the\u00a0 following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How to Safely and Confidently Ride&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-quitana-riding.html<\/p>\n<p>[the DVD above is excellent, in my opinion of course!]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Want To Train Your Horse?\u00a0 30 Day Horse Training Plan&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-dianaq.html<\/p>\n<p>One more thing you should know.<\/p>\n<p>Riding centered isn&#8217;t just about leaning<br \/>\nto left or right.<\/p>\n<p>It includes not leaning back or forward.<\/p>\n<p>Both are just as bad as the other.<\/p>\n<p>Lean forward and you shift the balance to<br \/>\nthe horse&#8217;s front end and make him heavy in the<br \/>\nfront.<\/p>\n<p>If, for instance, you were practicing jumping<br \/>\nwith your horse and he&#8217;s heavy in the front, it makes<br \/>\nfor an awkward looking landing that&#8217;s also dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>One way to picture this in your mind is picture<br \/>\nyourself sitting right on the apex of a teeter-totter.<\/p>\n<p>If you sit perfectly balanced, it won&#8217;t tip<br \/>\nforward or back.<\/p>\n<p>Turn yourself sideways and sit on the teeter<br \/>\ntotter again.<\/p>\n<p>As long you don&#8217;t lean to the left or right,<br \/>\nthe teeter-totter stays balanced.<\/p>\n<p>OK &#8211; go work with your horses.\u00a0 Please do it safely!<\/p>\n<p>Charlie<\/p>\n<p>P.s. 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