Tips When Riding Your Horse Bareback
August 17, 2009 – 4:15 pm
Tips When Riding Bareback
- Never clench your calves to keep balance on your horse, you may only tense up and encourage your horse to go faster.
- If you need to, hold the mane, but don’t lean on your hands. The point of bareback riding is to improve your balance. If you’re leaning you’ll never learn.
- Make sure you’re looking ahead, and try to adapt as close to a normal seat as possible, heels down still applies !
- Trotting and cantering will be the true test of balance, make sure you relax into each gait gently, give yourself time to adjust.
- Take time to feel the horse move underneath you. Practise your aids and see just how long it takes your horse to respond.
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