الإثنين 23 سبتمبر 2024

Rider Posture - What is Actually Involved?

موقع أيام نيوز

As a rider it can be tricky to discern exactly how much influence our structural alignment is having on our horse and our riding. The conversation about posture can be a complex and even frustrating one. In part this is because we innately know that what is happening in our bodies cant help but influence our horses given their sensitivity to changes in weight and pressure and the near impossibility of a rider being posturally in tune with their horse at every moment.
Posture defined as the way someone holds their body while sitting or standing often conjures visuals of pulling our shoulders back standing tall and taking on a nearmilitary rigidness. Instead were going to imagine it as a much more fluid concept inclusive of freedom of movement natural balance and coordination. Ideally in the saddle we will have a neutral pelvis supported on our seat bones an aligned spine the ability to take a full relaxed breath and a sense of being supported by our skeletal structure without tension. Like our horses most of us are carrying a variety of compensating and adapting postural patterns dependent on environment injuries or surgeries stress levels habitual movements breathing patterns and much more.

مع وصول أونصة الذهب إلى مستويات قياسية تجاوزت 2500 دولار، يجد المواطن المصري نفسه مضطراً لموازنة استثماراته بين الذهب واحتياجاته الأخرى، خاصة مع ارتفاع أسعار السيارات مثل تويوتا، هيونداي، وبي إم دبليو، مما يزيد من التحديات المالية التي يواجهها.
The position and mobility of a structure tell a story of how functional that structure is. For our discussion today we are more concerned with the functional movement of a structure as is your horse. For example positionally the left side of my pelvis is high at all the main landmarks. But if my pelvis is mobile allowing it to be neutral and spinealigned and letting my body move freely my mare Diva is happy to be ridden and is balanced on each rein. If my pelvis loses mobility disrupting my ability to move with my horse I notice an immediate change and resistance in Diva. Like myself many of us may have body asymmetries that affect the position andor the mobility of our structures and our posture.
أسعار السيارات في الآونة الأخيرة شهدت تقلبات ملحوظة، حيث تأثرت بارتفاع وانخفاض الدولار، مما انعكس على تكلفة علامات تجارية مثل تويوتا، هيونداي، ومرسيدس. و BMW هذا الارتباط بين سعر الصرف وسوق السيارات يحدد قدرة المستهلكين على اقتناء المركبات.
Lets take this example a little further by unpacking some of the reasons my positionallyasymmetrical pelvis might become limited in its mobility. First I am prone to rigidity at the junction of the occiput and first cervical vertebrae which causes my spine and pelvis to adapt to keep my eyes level and stay in a healthy relationship with gravity. With direct attachments in this region the dural membranes running through the spine and