Core Skills for Dressage Riders: Suzanne DeStefano

Mind, body, environment, they are inseparable.  Understanding how each affects the others can help with how you interact with your horse. 

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How do you improve your balance in the saddle when your horse suddenly spins around? Or stops suddenly? Standing on one foot, although helpful to improve balance, does not fully address the situation. You need to have the flexibility to withstand an external force and remain upright. Standing on unstable surfaces isn’t enough either.  That doesn’t help when the perturbance comes from another source than under your feet. Fast drills to improve your reflex time also falls short because those changes of direction and jumps are planned. They are expected by you because they are planned by you. 

 What is best to improve your ability to maintain balance with unplanned perturbances? Tune in to find out!

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Sitting quietly on a moving horse is complex. The horse's movement muddles your ability to sense. Keeping track of the movement of your hands is far more challenging in the saddle. Listen in for some strategies to help stabilize your hands.

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Are you working hard, frustrated, or not progressing as much as you want? If struggle and frustration are too common, there are actions you can take. Your extra effort and negative emotions can be a thing of the past. Find a more positive way of going about how you ride.

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How you use yourself working in hand is important. This podcast focuses on managing your posture, aligning yourself next to your horse, and the idea that you are managing forces within yourself and your horse. 

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Create a functional leg position through understanding the connection between the alignment of the torso and legs. 

This is the follow up of my previous podcast on leg position. You can find it here: Buzzsprout

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Trying to get that leg position that effortlessly drapes around your horse? The one that allows you to use your leg without turning it out or scrunching it up? Listen to hear what you need to do to achieve it!

I have broken down the process to develop your ideal leg position. While it is described in this podcast, the process is individual. For more information, contact me on Facebook or Instagram as feldydressage. My email is [email protected]

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A few brief thoughts and first steps you can take to build "feel." Feel is a skill you can improve.

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An overview of the posting trot using movement principles and biomechanics for ideal function to help you improve.

Suzanne DeStefano

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Listen in to a lesson I taught to help a rider improve her balance, stability, and function in the saddle. Many of the corrections were very subtle, but were felt by the rider to increase ease and security in the saddle.

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