So not only do I have chicken wings I'm also related to Quasimodo :-) but my crookedness is sided not front to back.
Had interesting discussion on how even obvious asymmetries may not be obvious to the person with them as it is your normal view of you.
My issue seems to be one of feel if I raise mt right arm above my head to me it feels I come off my right seat bone; to SFO it looks as though it puts me on my right seat bone so who knows. Either way raising the arm gives the effect SFO was looking for.
Put gloves under my calves on Blackberry interesting that the right one never moved, not so with the left.
Onto Pooh in rising trot tried moving seat left/right whilst arm raised then swapping arms, in sitting trot no stirrups/reins also moving seat and then emphasizing seat bones.
Was impressed I kept my seat when SFO accidentally caught Pooh with lunge whip and he shot forward.
Pooh becomes more elevated if I sit to the inside and emphasize the outside seat bone.
Doing this in canter gives a much more forward canter and much better transitions. Need to try and loosen off right leg especially on right rein as tendency is to grip up. So tried cantering whilst moving leg from hip.
Pooh very jolly in canter can feel the progress and my hips ache now!
Watched a bit of the lesson after mine L on Crisp, very interesting to see how to activate a stretch to the rein using leg (wiggle legs) and not the hand as so often seen.
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