![]() Mary then explains how effective force transmission within the fascial system enables the rider to push her hands forward, taking away the temptation to pull on the reins. Practical exercises, enhanced with copious photographs and diagrams, show how to balance your front and back, right and left – yielding skills that simultaneously address the equivalent imbalances in your horse. So is the enhanced difficulty of circling in one direction. Whether you tip forward, tip back, round your back or hollow it, your habits are based on fascial imbalance. Rider Biomechanics first addresses the 'outer sleeve' of the body. But by working through this book, and learning to access and rebalance your own fascial net, your stability, skill and ‘feel’ can be significantly improved. This is denied to the majority who are more loosely strung – and however much they would love to be more quiet, effective riders, they are inevitably ‘bobbled about’ by the horse’s movement. These are registering the forces that pull on an area, and thus a ‘fascial net’ under tension creates a wellspring of strength and feel. They also have enhanced ‘feel’, since fascia contains many more sensory nerves than muscles. Talented riders use their well-balanced guy ropes to stabilise themselves and rebalance their horses. Realise that imbalance in either partner can send the other 'out of true’, whilst the 'equipoise' of one partner helps the other to regain that poise. Inevitably, the problems inherent in sitting and riding well are magnified when there is imbalance within and between the fascial 'guy ropes' of rider and/or horse. Recent research has shown that the horse's fascial system is remarkably similar to our own, with equivalent ‘lines of pull’ that affect posture, movement, stability and mobility. ![]() However, research shows that in reality, this biological fabric links muscles into functional chains, just as the sausage skin links sausages. Until recently, this was ignored by science, consigned to its apparent role as the body's packing material. ![]() Rider Biomechanics begins by explaining fascia – the 'cinderella of body tissues'. SUMMARY FROM THE NEW BOOK: Rider Biomechanics
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