Bear Down

Question 1

Open the front angle of your pelvis and kneel more

Answer 1

Which spreads your weight along the length of your thigh instead of concentrating it in the middle of the horses back

Question 2

Pull your pelvis up and forward, as in limbo dancing

Answer 2

And thus pull the horses back up with you

Question 3

Bear down so strongly that

Answer 3

You generate a push forward that is stronger than the horse’s push back

Question 4

The push of your bear down

Answer 4

Pushes your horse’s head and neck away from you and when your push overcomes his, he will join you by reaching his neck forward into the seeking reflexes

Question 5

Create contact for the horses to reach into-think of the lower arm and rein

Answer 5

Forming the walls of a corridor that you channel the horse down

Question 6

Keep the inner thighs rotated in and weight bearing

Answer 6

While the hands maintain the corridor

Question 7

Bear down

Answer 7

Like you are having a baby

Question 8

Open your hip angle and imagine strands of chewing gum

Answer 8

From the saddle to your underneath and pull the saddle and your horse’s back up with each rise