Ep. 39 Half-halts: the riding enigma
Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind - A podcast by Mary Wanless BHSI BSc
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Send us your feedback!Half halts are an emergent property of good biomechanics. The rider. needs firstly to realise that she needs to intervene to ‘lead the dance’ and not just get carried away on the horse’s ‘magical mystery tour’. This won’t happen until she has a ‘reference feeling’ and makes comparisons between that and the feeling she’s actually getting. This involves the TOTE model - Test, Operation, Test, Exit. With more skills, she makes smaller interventions more often. Also, i...