How To Tell Your Diagonal at the Rising Trot 

“Rise and fall with the leg on the wall,” was what we were taught.

love it! love it! love it! Very well verbally explained and excellent video demonstration. Thank you a lot!

Great! Just had a lesson here in Malvern, England and was having trouble with this! I finally worked out that the shoulder that is coming BACK at you is the one to rise on! At first I thought I needed to look at the shoulder going forward but it doesn't seem to coincide with the rising motion. Your video shows this clearly. You can see the horse's inside shoulder coming back and 'pushing' the rider up out of the saddle - 1:08. That's how I think about it anyway! I couldn't see a leg going forward (in my lesson) or make any link between the correct shoulder going forward as a signal. The 'Should comes back and pushes you out of the saddle' works every time. Thanks again. Subscribed, LIked and Notified.

Thanks a lot. Your use of the highlighting and slow motion was very helpful (to me a beginner), as was your clear verbal explanation.

This helped out sooo much! All the other videos are abit complicated but this helped me sooo much!

Your video helped me understand the diagonal clearly. I see how the force is transmitted from the saddle to the ground once you sit down & front inside leg is forward (timestamp 1:02). Thanks.

Awesome..tq

Thank you so much this has helped me know what to do in my lessons!

Hello! I know this video was posted a while ago, but I have a question. Is the inside leg of the horse towards the fence or the arena?

Do you sit when inside leg is forward on both the right and left rein? Excellent video, rider who wants to get more technical here, thank you!

Thank you that was helpful

This may be an odd question, but when going 'straight' what leg do rise or sit? I get the instructions going around a pen left or right, but with heading straight, what is best please? 🙏

This was a great video except my brain works opposite how you trained...working on the outside leg when standing instead of sitting when the inside leg is forward you should be sitting. I am left handed, don't know if that makes a difference or just the way I am trained to learn.

Different perspective here looking at the inside leg.

Great demonstration. I started lessons a couple of months ago and now the instructors are making me focus on getting these diagonals right. We use "rise with outside leg" instead, but I find it hard to see this from the saddle. I look down, but things are moving a little too fast to notice, and it's only when my instructor says "sit for 2!" that I realise I'm wrong. Any tips for this?

Is there a reason to watching the inside leg rather than the outside?

What kind of saddle is that your riding in?