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About Ride in Balance
Ride in Balance (@rideinbalanceuae) is a Producto/servicio creator on Instagram, also filed under Pets. The account has 8,056 followers and 243 published posts. Recent posts average 333 likes and 6 comments, an engagement rate of 4.1%.
Ride in Balance belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Set against 131 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 61 followers per account Ride in Balance follows. Ride in Balance uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Ride in Balance under Producto/servicio, with Pets as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Ride in Balance runs to 19 words across 4 lines. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Ride in Balance dates from July 2022.
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Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Ride in Balance, 4 are carousels, 3 are videos and 3 are single images. No single format accounts for most of them. 243 published posts give Ride in Balance a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 33 followers for each post published. Ride in Balance also keeps 1 story highlight on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 216 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include position, which, seat, it's and body.
Step 1: Trot in light seat
⭐ Feet are level in the stirrups (horizontal), ankles and knees are soft so that they can MOVE to absorb the trot
⭐ Seat bones are pushed backwards
⭐ The stirrups need to be short enough so that you can easily lift your weight off the saddle without straightening the knees.
Step 2: Transition to rising trot
⭐ The SLOW is important! Don't give up the engagement of your legs now. Lower yourself down, but without actually releasing your full weight into the saddle.
⭐ Keep the same feeling in your stirrups as before
⭐ The position of your knee in the saddle shouldn't change
Step 3: Rising trot with same leg position
⭐ Continue into a rising trot by slowly taking the shoulders back and opening the hip joints into the rise
⭐ Continue to carry your weight in your thighs and stirrups. There is no full "sit" moment in the rising trot!
⭐ If you feel your lower leg starts swinging, go back to step one!
On the left you can see one of the complications that can easily happen: Harriet is not staying "grounded " with her inside leg, allowing it to creep upwards. Bambi then pushes out with the left shoulder, making Harriet want to correct it by moving her left hand over to the right to push his shoulder back out, which cannot work.
On the right you can see Harriet doing a better job in coordinating her aids and Bam showing a better shoulder in as a result. She is keeping her inside leg long and a better position of her outside hand, which enables her to control Bam's left shoulder better. Her hand could still be a bit more to the outside to keep a straight line from wrist to arm to make it perfect 😉
If you swipe left you can see how we used a resistance band to improve the grounding of the inside leg and control over her opposite shoulder. Keeping the band stretched from heel to shoulder is a great way to feel how this diagonal is connected within our body!
✴ A straight elbow creates tension. With straight arms the wrists, elbows and shoulders cannot be supple and will therefore not be able to move with the horse. This makes the contact unsteady and hard so that the horse will avoid it by either going above or behind the bit.
✴ Tension in the arms and shoulders will also impact the rest of the body. The hips and pelvis will not be able to move freely for example, which is essential for a deep, connected seat.
✴ Straight arms put the rider into an unsafe position if the horse trips, for example. Without any give in the arms and shoulders, the horse can easily pull you forward and even hurt you.
In the video you see two easy proprioception exercises to improve your hand carriage and contact:
⭐ Riding with weights (ca. 1kg each)
You can use dumbbells or simply water bottles. Hold them in front of you with straight arms and feel how you become tense. Then slowly bend your elbows until you reach a comfortable position where it feels the least effort to carry the weights in front of you. A good position always feels efficient! Careful: don't bring the elbows behind your ribs.
⭐ Riding with rubber band reins
You can use any gym band that has a nice soft stretch (here it's a Franklin band). Tie it to the bit / bitless bridle below the reins and hold the band together with the reins so that the band is stretched. Now follow the movement of the horse from your shoulders and elbows so that the band never goes into a slack.
You will feel that the shoulders and elbows need to move quite a lot to follow the horse! Therefore, as counterintuitive as it might sound, but for a steady contact we need to MOVE.
It's always important to understand where the root of the problem sits and to start from there.
For example
✴ gripping knees/thighs
✴ Losing the stirrups
✴ Tipping forward/backward
✴ Legs sliding forward/backward
All these issues very often go back to limited mobility in the pelvis (SI joint and hip joints). For example, in order to relax a gripping knee, the hips and SI joint need to be free (as in, not blocked by tension) first. Only if these joints move freely and absorb the horse's movements is it possible for the rider to feel balanced and to be able to let go of the knee grip. So with Sheikha that's exactly what we worked on: Mobility of the pelvis and softness. The legs then fell into a better place as a result.
This stirrup has a sloped bar in contrast to the straight bar we tried in the previous post. The sloped bar can be great for riders who struggle to find enough length through the calves into the heels as they promote a deeper heel position. This can be especially helpful for cross country where some situations require a safety seat with more weight down the heels. But of course they can also be used on the flat or for show jumping. For Wendy this model works very well, because taking more weight down the heel is exactly what she needs to look for. Her leg position tends to get a bit too light and backwards sometimes. In addition, the shock absorbing springs give a nice cushioning and are more gentle on the rider's joints than regular stirrups.
For riders with the tendency towards a chair seat, this type of sloped bar is not recommended. It will increase the issue and lock the ankles, which doesn't allow for a mobile position. So before choosing your stirrups, make sure you understand your current patterns and find a model which supports your body in the way you need 😊
If you are interested in this specific model, it's the safety cross country/jumping sloped model in brown/black by
A good stirrup can really make a difference for the rider's comfort, security and position in the saddle. Tech stirrups are especially great for people who suffer from joint pain, or from muscle cramps like Harriet in her right calf due to a former injury. These stirrups absorb some of the forces so that the impact on the rider's body decreases.
The ones Harriet is trying in the video are straight, but they also come in a sloped version. The slope can be great for riders who struggle with lengthening their legs down through the calves. However, I would not recommend this style to riders who tend towards a chair seat or who struggle to stay soft in their ankles, as they can lock the ankle down even more. For Harriet, who can do with a little more bounce in her ankles, the straight version is therefore a better choice.
Just to add: Harriet's usual stirrup is a non-shock absorbing, sloped stirrup with a cheese grater surface (similar to the Tech stirrup). She rode with them at the same time to compare the feeling.
⚠️ Our centre of gravity will be too far forwards in case the horse stops (ever fallen off over the horse's shoulder? 😬)
⚠️ Our hip joints will already be in a closed position, so that there will be little to no range left in the hip joints to absorb the actual jump.
⚠️ By moving our body forward too early, we also shift weight onto the horse's front just in the moment when it needs the freedom in its shoulders to lift up to jump. This makes it much harder for the horse and can lead to a stop.
Thankfully Bruno is a super pony and lets his rider learn, even if not all is smooth immediately 😊 In the photo on the right, you can see an attempt where Anthony anticipated the jump and folded too early. We say, he jumped ahead of the horse. The reins are in a slack as a result too, leaving Bruno lots of wiggle room to run out (which he doesn't, good boy 😁). In the photo on the left Anthony did a much better job! He kept his seat in the saddle, the shoulders balanced over his pelvis and a good contact on the reins.
When you start jumping it's important to make these mistakes, as much as you would like to do everything perfectly the first time. Through mistakes we learn and can understand why one thing felt unbalanced, and the next thing felt smooth.
As humans we are very hand-oriented in our daily activities. It is therefore not surprising that beginner riders tend to overuse the reins. Once learned incorrectly this can be a tricky habit to get rid of! But to truly create impulsion and collection, it is absolutely vital to learn how legs, seat and ultimately also the hands need to be used in order to create energy in the horse's hind leg and then receive this energy in the reins. Hands which act backwards, whether intentionally or subconsciously, disturb the energy's line of travel. It's like driving with the handbrake on.
Understanding this dynamic is one thing, but FEELING it is another! The Franklin bands are a fantastic way to experience this feeling of forward connectedness, even when the horse is not engaging its hind legs as much as needed quite yet. By pulling the band forwards with both hands, it creates a harness in the rider's back, who automatically also engages the core. It's a bit like pushing a shopping cart. The rider's job is it then to ride the horse forward (not necessarily fast, but engaged) until it starts reaching for the contact. This can take a while, also depending on the horse's training of course. But when it happens and the rider feels a connection starting to build on the other end of the reins, it's always a huge aha moment!
You can see how a seemingly small change in my position in the approach sets us up differently for this oxer.
In the top row, I started to fold slightly early which brings my shoulders forward and my hands backwards. You see how Jet therefore got a bit too close to the fence. The good boy he is, he still jumped it pretty nicely anyway. But on take-off you can see how I struggle to fold and move my hands with him. In the video you will also notice how we land unbalanced as a result.
In the bottom row I did a better job. I kept my shoulders back and hands forward a split second longer, which allowed Jet to jump off better and me to fold properly with giving hands. The landing is then also balanced.
Now while the first jump surely isn't terrible and he cleared the fence anyway, we might have been in trouble with the unbalanced landing if this was a combination in a course.
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Ride in Balance's engagement rate on Instagram is 4.1%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 24 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 56 to 1, with 333 likes and 6 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Who is Ride in Balance?
Ride in Balance (@rideinbalanceuae) is a Producto/servicio creator on Instagram, also filed under Pets. Ride in Balance uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Ride in Balance runs to 19 words across 4 lines.
How many followers does Ride in Balance have?
Ride in Balance has 8,056 followers on Instagram (8.1K). Set against 131 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 61 followers per account Ride in Balance follows. 243 published posts give Ride in Balance a moderate archive on Instagram.
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Ride in Balance's engagement rate on Instagram is 4.1%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 24 followers. Likes outnumber comments by roughly 56 to 1, with 333 likes and 6 comments on an average post, so most reactions are taps rather than replies.
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Flinque files Ride in Balance under Producto/servicio, with Pets as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Ride in Balance, 4 are carousels, 3 are videos and 3 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Ride in Balance repeatedly use the words position, which, seat, it's and body. Ride in Balance writes those captions mainly in English. Ride in Balance keeps 1 story highlight, which open with a free Flinque account.
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