Bouncing in the Saddle? Try These 3 Tips 👇 Check your pelvis back – Good riding starts at the hips. If your pelvis is rotated too far forward or back, you’ll bounce with every step. You need freedom in the hip joints to move with your horse. Watch your feet – Bracing against the stirrups doesn’t make you more secure — it just locks you up and limits movement. Soften your legs and let your weight drop through the stirrups. Relax your glutes – Tight muscles bounce! Clenching your seat muscles mak
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Bouncing in the Saddle? Try These 3 Tips 👇 Check your pelvis back – Good riding starts at the hips. If your pelvis is rotated too far forward or back, you’ll bounce with every step. You need freedom in the hip joints to move with your horse. Watch your feet – Bracing against the stirrups doesn’t make you more secure — it just locks you up and limits movement. Soften your legs and let your weight drop through the stirrups. Relax your glutes – Tight muscles bounce! Clenching your seat muscles mak
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🧐 Yes – if the rider can’t stabilise their pelvis and isolate hip movement on the floor, with a wide and stable base of support, they will usually struggle on a horse too. Yes – the horse will feel that weight shift and pelvic movement. They will respond to the rider’s change of weight on their back and the timing and pressure from the seat bones. Two different seat aids plus a leg aid can mean conflicting signals to what the rider actually wanted. The horse is responding to exactly what the ri
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🧐 Yes – if the rider can’t stabilise their pelvis and isolate hip movement on the floor, with a wide and stable base of support, they will usually struggle on a horse too. Yes – the horse will feel that weight shift and pelvic movement. They will respond to the rider’s change of weight on their back and the timing and pressure from the seat bones. Two different seat aids plus a leg aid can mean conflicting signals to what the rider actually wanted. The horse is responding to exactly what the ri
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❌ Gripping through the hip flexors ❌ Locking up through the pelvis ❌ Shifting unevenly from side to side These patterns don’t just affect comfort — they block your ability to move with your horse. When your hips are tight, imbalanced, or lacking control, your seat can’t stay grounded — no matter how hard you try. That’s why building true hip suppleness is key. There are 21 muscles that influence your hips and pelvis in the saddle. And the key to softness is restoring balance and symmetry to supp
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❌ Gripping through the hip flexors ❌ Locking up through the pelvis ❌ Shifting unevenly from side to side These patterns don’t just affect comfort — they block your ability to move with your horse. When your hips are tight, imbalanced, or lacking control, your seat can’t stay grounded — no matter how hard you try. That’s why building true hip suppleness is key. There are 21 muscles that influence your hips and pelvis in the saddle. And the key to softness is restoring balance and symmetry to supp
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🔄 Neutral Pelvis is Just the Start – Controlled Movement is the Key! So much of what I talk about revolves around a neutral spine/pelvis and why I believe the pelvis is the foundation of a rider's position in the saddle. But it’s not about being in a fixed posture—after all, we’re riding horses, not bikes! It’s about being able to maintain neutral when needed while also having the control to move dynamically through the full range of motion: front to back, side to side. That said, an anterior (
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🔄 Neutral Pelvis is Just the Start – Controlled Movement is the Key! So much of what I talk about revolves around a neutral spine/pelvis and why I believe the pelvis is the foundation of a rider's position in the saddle. But it’s not about being in a fixed posture—after all, we’re riding horses, not bikes! It’s about being able to maintain neutral when needed while also having the control to move dynamically through the full range of motion: front to back, side to side. That said, an anterior (
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🔃 Why Pelvic Control is Key for Canter For a smooth and controlled canter, your ability to isolate pelvic movements is crucial. Without proper control, your upper body may rock, your legs may swing, and your seat may slide along the saddle, resulting in reduced balance and inconsistent communication with your horse. This video shows this rider's first-ever canter—notice the difference that keeping her upper body still and moving her pelvis independently made to her lower leg stability and overa
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🔃 Why Pelvic Control is Key for Canter For a smooth and controlled canter, your ability to isolate pelvic movements is crucial. Without proper control, your upper body may rock, your legs may swing, and your seat may slide along the saddle, resulting in reduced balance and inconsistent communication with your horse. This video shows this rider's first-ever canter—notice the difference that keeping her upper body still and moving her pelvis independently made to her lower leg stability and overa
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“The rider’s ability to roll the pelvis from side-to-side on a gymnastic ball was highly correlated with ability to circle the pelvis on the ball and with quality and harmony during riding…It appears that the ability to actively move the pelvis is more relevant to equestrian performance than static balancing skill.” “Horses ridden by riders with better pelvic mobility and control showed significantly fewer conflict behaviors…” “Pelvic control and mobility may be predictive for equestrian skills
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“The rider’s ability to roll the pelvis from side-to-side on a gymnastic ball was highly correlated with ability to circle the pelvis on the ball and with quality and harmony during riding…It appears that the ability to actively move the pelvis is more relevant to equestrian performance than static balancing skill.” “Horses ridden by riders with better pelvic mobility and control showed significantly fewer conflict behaviors…” “Pelvic control and mobility may be predictive for equestrian skills
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The position of the rider’s pelvis in the saddle affects how their whole body moves in the saddle.⁣ ⁣ If your pelvis is tipped back (posteriorly rotated), that blocks your pelvis from being able to move with your horse, blocks your diaphragm from working effectively, and therefore you have to use the muscles of your neck and shoulders to do the work of breathing, hunches your shoulders and restricts your thoracic rotation. This makes it virtually impossible for you to follow the movement of your
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The position of the rider’s pelvis in the saddle affects how their whole body moves in the saddle.⁣ ⁣ If your pelvis is tipped back (posteriorly rotated), that blocks your pelvis from being able to move with your horse, blocks your diaphragm from working effectively, and therefore you have to use the muscles of your neck and shoulders to do the work of breathing, hunches your shoulders and restricts your thoracic rotation. This makes it virtually impossible for you to follow the movement of your
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1) Increase mobility of pelvis and lower back- riders will often find one side easier than the other. This can be because of stiffness but also due to weight imbalance in seat bones. So really important when you are doing the exercise to think about does the weight feel equal in feet and seat bones? Change weight in both feet to see if that changes pelvic movement. It also starts to work om body awareness as you think about how your pelvis is moving- in front of a mirror even better as then get
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🏇 How does your pelvis move in the saddle?⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⏰ Another 90 second anatomy reel! ⁣ ⁣ 🏇 Today let’s look at how your pelvis should move in the saddle. And also how collapsing through any of the three planes of movement affects that movement and your horse’s movement. ⁣ ⁣ 🤓 As a Chartered Physiotherapist, I have been assessing and treating horse riders for over 20 years and I see similar issues time and time again. The fundamental of riding is to have a balanced, mobile, and controlled seat -
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