Quick Tip Tuesday: The Legs.
Another Unit
Continuing with our mythical horse and rider, here's what
the legs do:
Are you wondering, "What? Like,
What?
What is this about?"
Find it on your horse ...
I recommend the walk.
As your horse is walking, find one hip socket and notice
it's movement in space. Notice when it goes forward and
backward. Then notice when it goes up and down.
Then find the circular movement it makes. Or you may notice
it as more of a swish / banana shape.
There will be times when your hip socket is up and forward
and times when it is down and back.
Notice when it is up and forward.
Notice when it is down and back.
These two should alternate.
If it's not doing that, maybe walk on the ground.
Now find your tailbone.
Your tailbone is going up and down parallel to the horse's
back. It's the red line in the diagram.
Notice how every other time your tailbone is up, your hip
socket is up.
Now repeat this with the other hip socket.
Can you find the teeter totter that goes from one hip socket
to the other, through the tailbone? It's like you've
got two kids playing but they're not just going up and down,
they're kind of torquing the teeter totter left and right --
which becomes tailward and headward on the horse.
What?
As the horse walks, one side of the horse's ribcage will
be up and one side will be down.
Since your legs are 'painted onto the horse's side,' one
of your legs will be up and one will be down every time the
horse's back, where your tailbone is, is up.
Your tailbone, spine, and skull, ride the horse's spine;
your legs ride the horse's sides.
I find 'neutral' at the bottom of the horse's back
movement. That would be both hip sockets are parallel
to the ground and perpendicular to the spine.
I have noticed over the years that my perception of things
changes. What have you got?
Lynn
5/23/23
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