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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's nice that unathletic wealthy people still have a way to compete in the olympics [/quote]

Try it.  Riding a trained and talented dressage horse is like driving a Ferrari with a mind of its own, while standing on a trampoline someone else is jumping up and down on.[/quote]

This is an excellent description. I’ve also likened it to pairs figure skating, except your partner weighs half a ton, has an anxiety disorder, and speaks an obscure foreign language. [/quote]

I appreciate these posts, as someone who knows next to nil about horses or equestrian sports, to see how much athletic prowess really goes into it. The riders make it look so easy. It’s hard to tell what’s going on under the hood, so to speak. [/quote]

If you’re doing it right, it really does look like “you’re just sitting there.”  Especially dressage, because at the high levels, a cue to the horse is as subtle as just *thinking* about shifting your weight from one seat bone to the other. While keeping everything else both perfectly still and yet completely fluid, so as to absorb and redirect the energy being generated. You’re just sitting there in the same way that reformer Pilates is “just lying there.”

For cross country, get down in a half squat and stay there for 10 minutes while rowing on a resistance band you have wrapped around a table leg in front of you. Throw in some pulses every 30 secs to 2 minutes. And also shift your weight left, right, forward, and back at random intervals. [/quote]

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