Training Tip - On Balance

On Balance - One of my goals when riding and training is to have a horse become balanced (ie.have an even distribution of weight over all four feet) and, for the horse to be in tune with my centre of balance( ie. i'd like the horse to become centred under my centre of balance). I try to achieve this with a lot of change of direction eg. squares, rectangles, triangles and the use of the wagon wheel ( or flower) pattern. I would like my horse to find my centre of balance...rather than me having go look for his. (Ian Francis)