Palm Partnership Training™


Building A Partnership With Your Horse Showing With The Seat


By Lynn Palm “Slowing with the


Seat” is extremely important to accomplish balanced transitions. The Seat as an aid is also necessary for col- lective gaits and their transi- tions.


There are three aids


that we use with our body to communicate with the horse when riding: 1. Seat 2. Legs 3. Reins and in that order for any transitions, upward or downward. It’s important to un-


derstand how the seat works naturally with the horse. That action with the seat (your pelvis or hip joint) can give your horse a signal that the leg and rein aids will come next. It also helps the horse engage the hind leg more under his barrel, thus balancing more from the hind legs than the front. It also gives the horse more


to have them unlocked and be able to move. If you want more movement of your hip, bring your shoulders back, thus unlocking your joint and allowing it move. When our shoulders are forward or we lean back too far, it will lock the hip joint. When you follow the horse’s motion, you will have a more com- fortable ride, plus you will be able to use the seat as an effective aid. We all are challenged


with our upper body coming forward and in keeping the perfect balanced alignment of our shoulders to the mid- dle of our hips. So, tell your shoulders to come back to- ward your horse’s tail. Then you will stay in perfect alignment and can sit with more weight in the saddle. You will feel like you are leaning back behind your hips, but I promise you won’t be! The weight in your seat gives the horse more power to engage the hind leg. For a downward tran-


power when the legs have a big step under him. Weight from your seat will be the start of your downward tran- sition, whether you are changing gaits or changing the speed within the same gait.


How do you put more


weight in your seat? Sitting down! Sit more! How do you do this? First you must have movement in your hip joint to move forward and back, following the motion of the walk or canter (most


movement). If you don’t feel that movement, drop- ping your stirrups will help elongate your legs and cause you to sit deeper. You must have your


shoulders in perfect align- ment with your hips in order


sition, I will first sit down and stay sitting down as the transition is happening, Sec- ond, I keep my legs touch- ing the horse’s sides with a very light contact to keep the hind legs moving for- ward. Third, I will close my fingers on the reins to get the response I want. If I do not get the correct response, I will do the first and second steps again, and then the third. I will open and close my fingers, not letting my hand hold firm. This is a


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“give and take” action with your fingers. If you hold your hand closed, and get no response, this allows your horse to pull against you and resist, or to be unsteady with his head. You may see some action in the horse’s mouth during this transition. Ask your horse to


travel on a curving line, then do your transition. A curv- ing line will naturally slow your horse; this helps teach your horse the seat aid. If you don’t get a response, simply reorganize and start the transition over again. You can’t do too many tran- sitions in a lesson with your horse!


Here is a great exer-


cise for slowing down with the seat. This is also great for your “aids coordination” and the suppleness of the horse’s top line and flexibil- ity of the hind legs: Use 4 sets of cones on


a circle at each quarter of the circle. Have the cones set 6 feet apart at each quar- ter of the circle. Place a cone in the middle, so when you change directions, you are turning through the middle and making an ‘S’ figure. You will meet the single cone in the middle before you start the new direction. On the circle, do a transition at each 3/4 of the circle, ad- vance to 1/2 of a circle, then advance to each 1/4 of the circle. Do as many upward and downward transitions as you can so that your horse really knows how to accom- plish them.


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you can do an upward tran- sition and get the downward transition at the exact 3/4 of the circle. When you start to get a lighter response from your aids and an immediate, smooth, and willing re- sponse from the horse, then you are ready to do them on a straight line. Use cones to do transition between cones or simply change the dis- tance between each set of cones. Do the transitions first on the quarter line of the arena, then the center line and then the diagonal line.


When you accomplish


this action of the seat aid, you will always use lighter leg and rein aids. That lighter “ask” is correct horse training! Horses love light- ness, and for me if they re- spond with lightness, they are understanding and ac- cepting the aids with confi- dence and athleticism. So sit down, and move


your hips more forward and back in the gait. This stimu- lates and energizes the hind legs by supporting with the leg aids. Quiet your horse with your rein aids for up- ward transitions.


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