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The idea of ‘positive tension’ is very new in the horse world, but I am no longer the lone voice crying in the wilderness!
As well as force absorption, we need force transmission, which enables the most important ‘myofascial lines’ in the body to ‘play a note’ in the same way that only a well-tensioned guitar string can play a note. This puts more ‘ping’ into each step, taking away the trudging heaviness of a 'soggy' net.
I offer some images to help you discover how to firm up your soggy places, and tell a story of how a soggy ‘unstuffed’ horse can lead to a soggy unstuffed rider, and how change in one of them changes the other.
We then review the ‘boards exercise’, which shows you how to increase the tone and stability in your torso.
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