inside leg to outside hand.
inside leg generates the power from the inside hind leg of your horse, the outside rein creates a boundary for the outside shoulder & the front outside leg. I like to have my inside hand be slightly higher than my outside hand (few cms, you cannot tell unless I am schooling a sticky lead change) to prevent any collapse of the inside shoulder, contact is even in the reins, but depending on the animal this can vary. My hot jumper mare only liked a few seconds of pressure on any singular rein to remind her, âhey come backâ but then you HAD to release to even pressure again or youâd be on a bucky, pissy creature. To slow down is pushing into the outside rein from the leg rather than pulling on it. I like to think of outside rein controls speed and inside rein reinforces shape from the leg
Outside leg shapes turns and controls the outside haunch.
Youâd be shocked how much leg a hot horse really wants - leg must be present but not nagging or too firm.
dressage rider as junior (equitation on that flat obsessed low jumper rider as an adult. NOT at all a hunter rider, FWIW) - I can be an effective, and especially on the flat âlovelyâ rider, but not nearly as accomplished as a lot of the crew on this forum. YMMV. I would often be the ammy rider in a lot of sale horsesâ flat videos.
I may have some videos around - would be happy to share⊠but here is a good still of what I am talking about on a turn to a jump