*TRYING* TO FIX MY BAD HORSE RIDING HABITS 

Agree!

I use to do a half hour lunge lesson once a month so that I could really focus on my position and not worry about what the horse was doing and that half hour lunge lesson without stirrups helped me the most to get my position in the correct place and then that helped me to get how it was supposed to feel then my balance started to improve. Plus doing no stirrups November really just feel it all coming together. My instructor did a lunge lesson every month and I could work on something different each time to help me a better rider. I think that to many people think that they don't need the lunge lesson when actually it is one of the best way to improve your riding skills. Occasionally I had a group lessons with a top professional and they would also agree that lunge lesson is the best way to improve and learn new skills without worrying about controlling the horse.

Ohhh TY that helped me understand how my understanding of the leg part without the posting part and how I learned to ride, not eventing style but western style, but now I can see how connected they still are even with dissimilar training styles, for obvious reasons, add in that part of my skill set is bareback Native American style which is based on not just the physical connection but also a spiritual connection that, so hard to explain in this format, connects both human and equine body and spirit to learn balance of all body and spirit as one entity, as put to me ... like riding a motorcycle, it's an extension of body but in living equine form, as Sir Cameron stated it,... pushing a wheelbarrow and THAT simply states it all, you push your body where you want the wheelbarrow to go 😄😁😜❤️ so short story long 🙄😆 again, TY for your words!! You clicked that kinda silly but rather vital element I've been missing trying to wrap my brain around understanding WOW eventing!! 🙏🥰

My mum used to train me like this when I was a kid. It really helped my riding. Edit: and will use def this tool again when I'm able to get back to riding

Same as you

Brilliant 🎉

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they're short for dressage but not for schooling in a jump saddle