Your Eyes are your Balancing Computer

Richard Shrake’s Resistance Free Teaching Picture

Your Eyes are your Balancing Computer

One of the major problems with riders of all disciplines is to get them to use their eyes properly. They seem to always want to look down instead of up and ahead.

The Resistance Fee teaching picture I use is to have them imagine their eyes being a computer camera. When the camera computer is operating at 100% efficiency, giving their body needed information of what is ahead. When they look down the camera computer shuts off, stopping the flow of information to their hands, legs, body, and seat, causing them to loose their balance and coordination of aids.

It is the same thing that happens when you are driving your car and you are looking at the hood ornament instead of looking ahead of where you are going. You crash.

Keep the camera computer turned on and give your horse the Resistance Free leadership he needs to perform at his best.

Richard Shrake is an internationally known horseman from Sun River, Oregon. He holds Resistance Free riding seminars on an international level. For a schedule of seminars see his website at http://www.richardshrake.com/
Illustrations by Suzanne Gysin, a Swiss born illustrator with a strong background in eventing and dressage. You can contact her at: http://suzannegysin.blogspot.com/