Cash at the movies

[glenatron]

A bit of video of my session with Cash on Sunday:

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I hate to see myself ride on video- I always see stuff I could be doing so much better. That's why it's worth doing, though, I guess

Comments

[fleefloodle]

I have a sudden urge to go and play about doing groundwork with Willow...

Watching yourself on video is always a strange experience, but I think we tend to be more critical of ourselves than we would be of others.

He is an adorable little fellow!

[glenatron]

He's just so easy to work with compared with Zorro. I mean Zorro has the finesse now, but sometimes it's a bit like having a block of concrete on your rope, you always have to put a lot in before anything happens. Or at least you did for years, he's better now.

Cash is much more there from the very start, he just really really wants to do everything right.

[joycemocha]

Cash is so nicely soft on the ground. I like that he picks up easily on the reverse cues. I think you've got the potential to get him as light as Mocha

[glenatron]

I know how to sit right on a horse, but I forget to do it when I'm thinking about everything else because even still it is not second nature and being a man I'm not terribly good at thinking at more than one thing at once. If I was thinking that I would see myself on video later I would probably have sat up better, though. I'm my own worst critic when it comes to video.

In general one of my leg position and my upper body position is about right, this time around it seems to be my leg position...

You are right about core strength, I'm working on that currently because I've noticed a definite deficit in that area.

[joycemocha]

Well, leg position will go away when you're working a greenie, and to some extent upper body as well. You do what you need to and sometimes it ain't pretty. However, core strength improvement will help you not to need to explicitly think about it; at least that's what I found

[glenatron]

Sadly until I have finished making my fortune I don't think I'll be able to afford to routinely ride somewhere with an indoor, mirrors or otherwise...

I realise ( seeing this video has really got me thinking ) that I am spending too much of the rest of my life hunched up, using my keyboard in particular, and so I'm going to see what I can do to change the way I do that. If riding is a constant struggle with the habits I form the other 22 hours of the day, it's going to make things harder than they need to be, and as the riding is really the priority, the other things need to change.

[penella22]

:D Nice to see him in video, see his gaits and everything. Looks calm and relaxed here and I am mui impressed with how he handles that... that... bucketloader? Fork lift? Big construction thingie!!

I think we're going to have some fun times at the clinic. :)

[glenatron]

I think it will be awesome. He's such a lovely little guy.

[linasfyre]

Cash looks like he has a super sproing-y movement, (my mare has a sproingy movement too) and looks like a very willing dude.

Im tall also, and it can be terribly difficult to keep everything "correct"
FOr instance, IRL I tend to slump a lot. Otherwise Im 11 feet overtop of everyone else :S so this does NOT benefit my riding position.

One thing that has helped me is to keep in mind that my head has to be UP, the nape of my neck has to be straight in line with my spine. And HEAD UP.
Wish my head wasn't so heavy.

Nice vid :D

[glenatron]

The thing is I have been having lunge lessons with one of the best people around for the last few years and I know exactly what I should be doing. Then I get to thinking of something else and I'm suddenly all over the shop. Then I video myself and think O_O and realise I need to be more mindful in my riding.

The simple case is that I spend most of my time in an office hunched over a keyboard and that does mean that I practice my shoulders coming together and forward more than I practice coming back and apart, which is what I should be doing.

[linasfyre]

oh gosh no kidding, I am also in an office job! Does NOT help the position.
I try to "keep my position" while DRIVING, but then I just end up looking very awkward in my VW. lol

I have the same thing, I know what I should look like and when I tell myself "okay lets pretend we are at a shoW!" everything is pretty good...but then something will happen like mareface will go out through her shoulder or something like that and then bam chaos ensues and everything comes apart.

Working on it. :D

[glenatron]

And of course, it is during chaos that good posture makes the biggest difference.

So annoying.