{"id":18255,"date":"2025-06-25T17:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dressagetoday.com\/?p=18255"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:30:32","slug":"adult-amateurs-biomechanics-to-correct-your-leg-and-seat-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dressagetoday.com\/plus\/adult-amateurs-biomechanics-to-correct-your-leg-and-seat-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Amateurs: Biomechanics To Correct Your Leg and Seat Position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To correctly influence your horse, you must have a basic understanding of how rider biomechanics function so you can find the most effective position to go with his movements. In Part 2 of this series on biomechanics for adult amateurs, based off her videos on <a href=\"http:\/\/equestrianplus.com\">EQUESTRIAN+<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dressagetoday.com\/author\/stephany-fish-crossman\/\">Stephany Fish Crossman<\/a> continues working with adult amateur Cindy and her Lusitano gelding Dangi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USDF medalist and <a href=\"https:\/\/dressagetoday.com\/category\/podcast\/\">Dressage Today Podcast<\/a> cohost is an expert at helping her students better grasp rider biomechanics in order to improve their position, fine-tune their aids and enhance overall communication with their horses. Here, she helps Cindy correct her leg position and learn how to keep her seat still in order to apply her aids effectively and stay with Dangi&#8217;s movement at the trot and canter. Plus, she offers nuggets of wisdom that all adult amateur dressage riders can employ to hone their skills and partnerships with their horses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-prep-for-correct-trot-amp-knees-to-the-ground\">Prep for Correct Trot &amp; Knees To the Ground<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;re never going to get a good trot from a crappy walk. So before you trot, go back to the walk so you\u2019re better prepped for the trot. At the walk, aim your sternum out, push you ankles out and back and pull your abductors in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow, look down the length of your thigh and imagine that your knees are pointing to the ground. So, your patellas or kneecaps are aimed at the ground while your sternum is aimed toward your horse\u2019s bit. I\u2019m going that much farther down your body to help you create a better front-to-back balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"StephVid2_1KneesToGround\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1095985624?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equestrianplus.com\/videos\/adult-amateur-rider-biomechanics-stephany-fish-crossman-part-03\">here<\/a> to watch the full episode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen you think about pointing those knees to the ground and your sternum at the bit, you\u2019re able to keep your horse more underneath you. <\/strong>But the second you start to lose the position of your knees, your glutes take over and insist on doing all the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis must be an all-the-time thing because when you\u2019re thinking about it, this is where you are positioned upright. Then, you can feel that he\u2019s not trotting away from you. He\u2019s getting fabulous with you\u2014not despite you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen your patellas are aimed at the ground the thrust of your post should be stronger than the weight in your reins. You are the bearer of the rhythm. It\u2019s fabulous that your horse has 17 different trots, but we don\u2019t want him to pull them all out within one rotation around the arena. We want to know that those trots are at your disposal, but we don\u2019t need them all at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThrough our work, we\u2019ve found that you tend to be more forward. So, what we\u2019re trying to do here is to put you in the driver\u2019s seat instead of you being in the back seat as you keep trying to grasp for the steering wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-carousel-pole-for-canter-work\">Carousel Pole For Canter Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBefore we begin our work at the canter, I want you to think about all the things we\u2019ve already established. I don\u2019t want you to just canter off. I want you to think about the little details so you\u2019re prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThink about a carousel horse. There\u2019s a pole that creates a vertical line just behind the withers; it goes all the way up to the top of the carousel down through the horse\u2019s heart girth to the ground. Imagine you\u2019re that pole. So, if you lean back, you\u2019re tilting the whole carousel horse back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"StephVid2_2GoodTrotting\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1095985771?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equestrianplus.com\/videos\/adult-amateur-rider-biomechanics-stephany-fish-crossman-part-03\">here<\/a> to watch the full episode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTake a chance and really fold yourself forward for a second. Think about putting your collarbone against that pole. I know you\u2019re looking down right now and I don\u2019t care. Then give a tiny ask for the canter and stay in a carousel-pole position. Fight for it! Be super weird. We don\u2019t care. Keep using more hamstring and point those patellas to the ground. Now transition to the walk while maintaining the carousel pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the thing about riding schoolmasters like your guy. It can be a little daunting because they know more than we do. But horses don\u2019t have frontal lobes. So, he\u2019s not going to just all of a sudden say, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re at a show, so I\u2019m going to give her the good stuff today! Or, she gave me three carrots today instead of two, so I like her.\u2019 He\u2019s going to use as little of himself as he possibly can. It\u2019s not because he isn\u2019t a lovely horse; it\u2019s because he is a horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you tell me that you sometimes get a good canter, then I\u2019m going to tell you that sometimes you\u2019re in a carousel pole. But we don\u2019t want sometimes. We want all the time. <strong>The piece that ultimately makes a difference is you becoming more aware of where you\u2019re sitting. The more you sit still, the more your horse can feel your asks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"StephVid2_3CarouselPole\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1095985967?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equestrianplus.com\/videos\/adult-amateur-rider-biomechanics-stephany-fish-crossman-part-04\">here<\/a> to watch the full episode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you don\u2019t sit still, you\u2019re asking a lot of questions that you might not even know you\u2019re asking. I really like this carousel pole piece. When you think about that along with kneecaps down, it puts you right where you need to be. And you may not have a lot of brain space to think about it at the moment you\u2019re cantering but when you do those two things it helps your glutes stay loose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCindy asks me a great question\u2014how to keep her knees down while staying on the inside of her leg\u2014because right now when she tries to point her knees down her lower leg is kind of flailing back. Practice applying your inside leg and then try rotating it out. So, think more out than back. What we\u2019re eventually trying to do is move your thigh and not your calf. Right now we\u2019re using your calf to create that rotation because your thigh by itself is like, \u2018I don\u2019t care.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So we want the calf to go back to doing its job better, but it should never be out in front of you again. If you\u2019re looking down your leg, you should never see your toe in front of your knee. Over time, you\u2019ll find that when your leg is in the correct position you can make one tiny movement for an aid. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-for-more-on-adult-amateur-biomechanics\">For More on Adult Amateur Biomechanics:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read Part 1 of Stephany Fish Crossman&#8217;s series on adult amateur biomechanics, &#8220;Use Biomechanics to Improve Balance and Communication,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/dressagetoday.com\/featured-articles\/adult-amateurs-use-biomechanics-to-improve-balance-and-communication\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To watch her full series on rider biomechanics for adult amateurs on <a href=\"http:\/\/equestrianplus.com\">EQUESTRIAN+<\/a>, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equestrianplus.com\/search?q=stephany%20fish%20crossman%20adult%20amateur\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For more training videos with Fish Crossman, including rider biomechanics for upper-level and grand prix dressage riders, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equestrianplus.com\/search?q=stephany%20fish%20crossman\">here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Part 2 of this series on rider biomechanics, Stephany Fish Crossman stresses &#8220;knees to the ground&#8221; and &#8220;carousel pole&#8221; to help an adult amateur find the proper leg and seat position to fine-tune her aids and better move with her horse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4059,"featured_media":18256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6487,117,101,91,120,2],"tags":[620,330,606,6347,6346,6348,6193,1192,977,6413,6034],"class_list":["post-18255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plus","category-first-level","category-how-to","category-instruction","category-introductory-level","category-lifestyle","tag-adult-amateur","tag-adult-amateur-dressage-rider","tag-adult-amateur-lifestyle","tag-articles-with-stephany-fish-crossman","tag-biomechanics-for-dressage-riders","tag-correct-dressage-position","tag-equestrian-2","tag-leg-position","tag-rider-biomechanics","tag-seat-position","tag-stephany-fish-crossman"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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