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Mary Wanless – Ride With Your Mind

MARY WANLESS presents crucial information on how the Ride With Your Mind approach to Rider Biomechanics can transform your learning, your riding, and possibly your life.

Out of frustration at her progression as a rider, Mary embarked on a journey to discover the ‘how’ of skilled riding – why couldn’t she learn to ride as skilfully as “talented” riders? Over more than 40 years she has decoded the hidden laws of rider-horse interaction and now teaches the skills that combine to create “talent”, both in person and through online courses at www.dressagetraining.tv.

In these podcasts, Mary talks about her journey to date, her key discoveries, and some pivotal moments. She illuminates her key points with metaphor and story, and, at times, presents insights derived from sports psychology.

Prepare to be entertained, to learn, to become curious, and to understand a little (or maybe a lot) more about your interaction with your horse. Check out these podcasts, and visit www.dressagetraining.tv for information about their vast library of online courses and webinars, presented by Mary and her Ride With Your Mind colleagues.

Copyright: ℗ & © 2020 Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind

Latest Episodes:

Ep. 14 On how you might have to give up what you think is control in order to find real control. May 31, 2020

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Your instincts can easily lead you astray when riding, wether that’s pushing hard into the stirrups, ‘popping up’, or growing too tall. These are all symptoms of the ‘Landau Response’, which defines many rider’s instinctive reaction to a ‘Yikes!’ moment, and also to downward transitions. This podcast offers more distinctions about feeling and controlling the movement of your seat bones, and riding walk to halt transitions without falling prey to the ‘waterski/motorboat’ syndrome.

Ep. 13 On noticing more about your seat bones and the underneath of the torso-box. May 24, 2020

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Newton’s third law of motion (every action has an equal and opposite reaction) affects the relationship between your feet and seat bones. How to find ‘just right’ for the tone in the underneath of the box, and the appropriate clarity for your seat bones, so you neither ‘pop them up’ nor have a pair of ‘stiletto heels’. Once you find ‘just right’ you can control the speed of their movement - and this controls the speed of your horse’s legs.

Ep. 12 In the flow May 17, 2020

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What is flow and what difference does it make to elite performance.

Ep. 11 On the voice inside your head! May 14, 2020

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How to get rid of the tyranny of the voice inside your head and create for yourself the best internal coach!

Ep. 10 On the thrills and spills of putting words on feelings. May 10, 2020

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How easy do you find this, and how much have you been encouraged to do this during your training sessions? As you’ll hear, it’s the best answer to confusion and miscommunication! Our traditional language that has been handed down through generations has been subject to deletion, distortion and generalisation, but the potential for misrepresentation and misunderstanding gets even worse than this. It’s those As and Xs again!

Ep. 9 On how you cannot not influence, and maps. May 07, 2020

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The best ever story about stirrup length, and how in other sports, it’s all about angles. You cannot not influence your horse - he is constantly reading your ability to support your own body weight (or not), your asymmetry, how wibbly-wobbly you are, how ‘shovey’ you are, wether you can match the forces of his movement etc. He knows more about you than you know about yourself! The possible effects of being given the wrong map, and how communication in riding arenas goes awry.

Ep. 8 On stirrup length and posture stools May 03, 2020

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How is your weight distributed on your horse’s back? If it is concentrated into the area where he would hollow his back, you create or perpetuate that hollow. Your weight needs to be spread down the inside of your thigh, with your thigh bone at 45 degrees. This mirrors sitting on a ‘kneeling stool’ - which is very different to treating your horse like a mobile arm chair! The paradox of how your stirrups might look longer when they are actually shorter…

Ep. 7 On noticing mode, trying mode and tune out. Apr 30, 2020

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The brain is like a manual camera lens, and all of us have to learn how to ‘tune’ our brain into a state of clear focus. As skill develops it’s as if you’re given a more powerful miscoscope lens, becoming able to observe detail that you could not have previously imagined. But all learning requires the willingness to feel weird - and here is an exercise in weirdness that I invite you to take to your riding.

Ep. 6 On Unconscious Incompetence Apr 26, 2020

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New students commonly begin by telling me what’s wrong with them, and what they know they SHOULD be doing. Their problem really is ‘premature automation’ - when they first learned their up/downs, they automated a pattern that was far from biomechanically correct. So now they face the challenge of ‘rewiring’ themselves, and they have to become ‘consciously competent’.

Will elite riders talk to you about the ABC’s of riding, or its XYZ’s? An analogy to icebergs explains the answer!

Ep. 5 On finding ‘weird’… Apr 23, 2020

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Did the lessons you’ve taken, the lecture/demos you’ve attended, and the DVDs and webinars you’ve watched actually make a difference to your skills? They are mostly addressing the language brain, and intellectual information does not help you to ‘groove’ a new habit. This requires you to feel weird: so welcome to some of my favourite off-horse exercises!

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