RIDER BIOMECHANICS
RIDER BIOMECHANICS
RIDER BIOMECHANICS
RWYM ARTICLE 20 This photograph shows a difficult mare, purchased by the owner four months previously. She was in fact one of the demonstration horses in my lecture series earlier this year. Much to her rider’s amazement she behaved quite well, for she has been pretty scary to ride, and rehabilitating her has been a…
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RWYM ARTICLE 19 This photograph has been sent by a reader in Barcelona. She is riding her 25 year old thoroughbred mare, who she describes as ‘wonderful in every way and a joy to ride’. The photograph shows a lovely, and unusually ‘up-hill’ mare being basically well ridden in terms of the rider’s biomechanics. However,…
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RWYM ARTICLE 18 This horse is an eight year old 17.2 h Irish gelding, who has been hunted each season since he came over from Ireland as a four year old. His owner tells me that ‘I have never found a hedge/wall or any other obstacle that phases him’, and also that ‘flatwork has not…
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RWYM ARTICLE 17 The photograph shows a ten year old Cleveland Bay cross Welsh Section D mare. Her rider has owned her for four years, and loves her dearly, even though she describes her horse as a ‘17h hunter on pony legs’!. She describes herself as a ‘happy hacker’ who would like to do some…
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RWYM ARTICLE 16 The horse shown here is a Connemara/Standard bred cross, who is aged nine. His owner and rider is aged sixty-five, and living proof that it’s never to late to learn and improve. She started riding at fifty-seven after a life time of longing to be around horses, and has owned her horse…
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RWYM ARTICLE 15 The Welsh cob/Hanovarian gelding in the photograph is a ten year old who has been owned by his present rider for six years. She has only been riding for eight years, and is in her mid forties, so I think it’s quite impressive that she took and passed her BHS State 2…
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RWYM ARTICLE 14 I have virtually no information about this horse and rider, other than a short note which says ‘My riding has been so wrong for all these years, please help. My leg jigs about all over the place’. It is signed, ‘Confused Rider’. From the length of the rider’s stirrups, the proximity of…
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RWYM ARTICLE 13 The photograph shows a nineteen year old chestnut thoroughbred mare (who I think would win the prize for the oldest horse shown in this column). She looks extremely well and happy, which is particularly impressive as she is a long backed and long necked horse. This type ‘run up light’ very easily,…
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RWYM ARTICLE 12 This photograph shows a six year old Warmblood x Connemara mare, ridden in her first dressage test, which is being held at a local show in Austria. (‘Horse and Rider’ obviously gets around! How I wish that my local show were held within such a beautiful setting!) The young girl riding her…
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RWYM ARTICLE 11 This rider has owned her horse for nearly three years. She states in her letter to me that ‘My mare was very green when I bought her as a six year old. Whilst her schooling has improved tremendously I have never been able to achieve true connection from leg to hand and…
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