Sports & Recreation Podcasts
Mary Wanless BHSI BSc, author of the Ride With Your Mind books and DVDs, shares with you her knowledge of Rider Biomechanics. Podcasts will be released twice weekly on a Sunday and a Thursday.
Ep. 60 The last and final one!
We do two more exercises, as I encourage you to realise the immense value of the off-horse exercises that are part of my approach to learning and coaching. We then revisit some more of the common traps in learning, before focussing in on ‘flow’. This experience/brain state more than doubles your rate of learning, and makes it so much more fun.
Ep. 59 Back to basics - as we begin to wrap this up!
I was right all of those years ago when I thought there was something my teachers weren’t telling me! But this is innate in the human condition, where we pass through conscious competence before we become unconscious of our incompetence, and no longer have words to describe our skill.
Ep. 57 The story of Sarah
One of my pupils broke her upper arm in a fall, and damaged her wrist and elbow. After surgery and recuperation she returned to riding, and found herself with a total reversal in her asymmetry! This very rarely happens, and the story of how we worked with it is illuminating.
Ep. 55 Good sides and bad sides
Most people have a strength differential between their two boards, and don’t address this well - so as the weaker one becomes stronger, the stronger one gets in on the act and also gets stronger! But ‘bad sides’ do eventually become ‘good sides’, leaving the rider very confused.
Ep. 54 Both boards on!
I love the analogy of ‘both boards on’ being like two people both fighting to sit on the same bar stool, but neither one must push the other one off! The top, middle or bottom of both or either board can be weak, and we have exercises to help with each possibility.
Ep.53 What do Ice skaters and clock faces show us about how to turn horses?
On a circle, an ice skater pushes off one foot and glides on the other as her body makes a dancer’s arabesque. She faces her torso to the outside, and if she were to allow it to rotate in, she would spiral out on the turn and fall over.
