Harriet

Wednesday 30th April

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Today we looked at you both ridden and unmounted, above is the video from the unmounted section so you can see what we did.

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Ridden

In the ridden I looked at how straight you were in the saddle, there was a definite shift the left where your right hip was very tight and pushing you over to your left. We discussed having more of a feel of your left seat bone being more centralised to create more support through your left hip and also more weight through your right big toe. 

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This was born out when we found your weakness in your right ankle, as your hip and leg were compensating for this creating the tension.

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The right hip tightness played into your hip mobility in the rising trot creating an external rotation of the pelvis on the left rein, she we talked about exaggerating the hip swing on the right side to help your pelvis stay level. In the canter to avoid the hip tightness your right leg would come forwards and too much weight would travel through the back of the leg, this is where the weight in the right big toes comes in handy as it focussed even weight through the leg and started to encourage the right hip to release.

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In the rise we also discussed you coming more into your pubic bone as you had a tendency to tuck your tail bone at the final point of the sit, creating tension through the back, thinking more about the pubic bone coming down kept the pelvis neutral and helped with balance and lift in the back.

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Exercises

Building strength in the right ankle and left hip are key here to evening you out, whilst also working on releasing tension from your right hip. The balance board will be a big friend to you as it will help to activate the right ankle and left hip, but also following the improve your seat course will be a good place to go too once you have started to feel more level.

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