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How is your weight distributed on your horse’s back? If it is concentrated into the area where he would hollow his back, you create or perpetuate that hollow. Your weight needs to be spread down the inside of your thigh, with your thigh bone at 45 degrees. This mirrors sitting on a ‘kneeling stool’ - which is very different to treating your horse like a mobile arm chair! The paradox of how your stirrups might look longer when they are actually shorter…
By Mary Wanless BHSI BSc4.9
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How is your weight distributed on your horse’s back? If it is concentrated into the area where he would hollow his back, you create or perpetuate that hollow. Your weight needs to be spread down the inside of your thigh, with your thigh bone at 45 degrees. This mirrors sitting on a ‘kneeling stool’ - which is very different to treating your horse like a mobile arm chair! The paradox of how your stirrups might look longer when they are actually shorter…

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