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Rider Biomechanics
Improving the Horse Rider's Seat, Posture & Balance

Sports biomechanics is the specialist field that looks at how athletes move, lift, carry, push & pull.  They look at balance & movement and through testing, predict and improve sports performance.

Equine biomechanics analyses the horse's movement and footfall.  Spinal posture & movement and the way they track up. 

Rider biomechanics looks at every part of the horse rider's balance, seat, posture & movement and how it affects the horse.

For the beginner - it might be help just staying on!  For the Olympic level professional, it might mean fine tuning every single movement & improving balance, co-ordination and fluidity of movement during the highest level movements, complicated turns & jumps.

Rider Biomechanics looks at the rider's legs, the placement of the foot in the stirrup, how we sit, how we look, how our balance affects the horse.  We can tell you why the horse feels better on one rein than the other.  Why your horse falls in, cuts corners and falls on the forehand, and by simple rider adjustments improve the horse's performance.   More>>

 

 

Meet the speaker.....

Colleen Kelly
MISBS,
Sports Biomechanics Lecturer. 
EFA - NJAS Official Judge (Retired)
President, Vaulting Victoria

Colleen Kelly first started her career in exercise physiology in injury and cardiac rehabilitation gymnasiums and now, some 30 years later, is one of the world's most sought-after keynote speakers on sports biomechanics, specializing in the seat and posture of horse riders in all horse riding sports.

Her elite world lecture circuit includes speaking at Official Equestrian Federations around the world, FEI Level Judge’s Clinics & world class conferences such as Equine Extravaganza, Equine Affaire, the Detroit Horse Festival and Equitana.

Colleen was elected Spokeswoman of the WorkCover Authority of NSW and spent 8 years in Scientific Research Reports with the University of New South Wales.

Although Colleen is well known for judging at many State, National and Royal Championships, and for receiving a remarkable 100% in her Official Dressage Judge’s Exam…it’s her ‘Irish Sense of Humor’ that keeps audiences around the world smiling & has seen her awarded with 3 separate awards for her work with Riding for Disabled.

If you like to have fun while learning, Colleen is the clinician to see!  More >>

 

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