What a great explanation! You are a great teacher and trainer! I often wondered how to master the sitting trot. Thank you Joseph and Jess behind the camera!
Great video! I always imagine my inner thigh as a giant rubber band that I can adjust the tension on to absorb the horse's energy. I think you can feel it better bareback b/c you can feel the horse's back muscles too. Small doses though if you want to be able to walk the next day lol!
Steksinoly - agree 100%. So important for young (teenage yrs) riders to ride bareback or with a saddle pad. There is just no other way to recreate the centered balance that develops from bareback or no stirrups. My friends & I had a tough instructor for a few yrs. At one point he made us post trot - no stirrups!! Told us to continue & he stepped out of the arena. He came back almost 20 minutes later, had forgotten he gave us that command. Our thighs were screaming 😁. However, it made jumping no reins/ no stirrups do-able.
The way it was described to me to think about was like a hand and a basketball. Just wait. When you bounce a basketball, what happens to the energy and momentum of the basketball " bounce " if you just stick your hand and hold it there for the basketball to run into? The energy and momentum stop. So will your horse's trot. Now, you put your hand out, and as the ball approaches your hand, your hand follows the ball up to the apex. So should your seat until the ball reaches the top of its ascent, and then at that point, you follow the descent. Upon the point when you feel the activity of the horse ( or the ball ) begins to slow, your hand pushes down on the ball and the ball remains active and bounces back up. The same thing should happen with your seat. You push down and forward, since the horse is moving and carrying you forward , with an active seat and this increases your horses activity. If you don't follow the horse's motion, it's like the fixed hand and the basketball. Your bouncing and slamming the horse's back, kills the momentum and energy of the horse. And, as Joseph explained, you still need to keep an active leg and not pinch with your knee. For someone like me, who can't walk and chew gum at the same time, working all these parts simultaneously was very hard. And yes, I not only had No Stirrups November, but also Stirrupless Saturdays and Sundays too for years and years! I hope this makes sense to you all.
Awesome description and lesson to not slam down on the horses spine! It's also different on different horses, they each have their own "rhythm" that the rider has to get synced with. Some are a lot easier to get synced with than others. Where did this no stirrups November come from? It's pretty cool.
Ugh... been working hard on that lower leg off thing! Hard habit to break but getting there! Realized too that my glute muscles were weak so made it hard to hold my leg "off" ! But once you feel it, so much easier! Great video! Thanks! 🙃👏👏🦄 oh and that pony is very handsome!
Really great explanation & it is hard to convey...in words. 👍 Agree, you can not be totally passive or you would eventually bounce off. Also, you have to let your hips move easily with your horse's gait. Great video & beautiful braids Jess!
The ONLY way I could sit trot in the beginning was with no stirrups, I had to do ankle circles to keep from gripping, and it really helped me learn how to disperse the momentum via my ankles, it was the only way I could sit trot for a while, haha!
I don't know why but I have always found the sitting trot easier than posting. my coach is always yelling at me to post 😂 the thing I struggle with the most is going from canter back to trot either bareback or without stirrups. I usually just go back to walk instead
Another way to visualize your seat is this, in order to not bounce on your horses spine (not pleasant for your horse) so picture this: keep your seat relaxed, like mashed potatoes - NOT like a sack of whole potatoes. With mashed potatoes - no daylight from your seat to your saddle or from your seat to your horse's spine, if bareback. Much smoother & your horse will really appreciate that! 🐴💞
"All my young ones?.......I don't know...." Changes topic a little. :) Well said. :) I am also not going to ride my three year old stallion without stirrups.
What age do you feel its OK that the horses bCk is strong enough to do sitting trot? Nice style you have there, also do you ever do the raising trot without the stirrups?
"Strong enough" is really relative to the horse's breed and training and physical maturity. Different breeds will mature earlier than others. Assume the horse should have a developed core and topline before you do any focused sitting trot. At the start of my daily ride, I'll drop stirrups and walk for a while (with legs active, not just dangling with toes dropped) as the horse loosens up and continue into rising trot same way. This helps me to warm up my hip flexors, knees, lower back, and core at the same time as my horse is warming up his joints and muscles. I'll pick up the stirrups (which often feel too short by this time!) and continue warming up the horse.
I've been trying to perfect sitting trot for fifteen years and still haven't mastered it ! I can do it easily on my Friesian mare because even though she has an energetic, high stepping trot she is so smooth but my Welsh section d I cannot sit his trot because it's so bouncy even though he is a pretty ploddy dude 😂
360p again :( Sorry but I don't know if you know this is such low res. Is something set wrong on the new camera? It was 1080p60 with "You have to see this canter. He is 3". Hoping you'll realize soon. :)
When did "no stirrups November" become a thing? Maybe I'm just way too old as it was never a thing when I was a young rider.. I think the biggest mistake people make for sitting trot is to think entirely "absorb" which just makes you a sack of potatoes. This makes it difficult for the horse to carry you and makes you ineffective as a rider. The sitting trot really requires a much more active participation by the rider. I'm not sure I'd describe the rider activity as dispersing the energy but more as synchronization so that you can use your passive and active body in time and in sync with the horse's movement. An engineering description would be trying to minimize the impedance mismatch between the horse and your body- i.e., you are trying to allow the horse's energy to be transferred to your body (and vice versa) without interruption (which is what causes the bounce and impact). The choice of these descriptive terms ("synchronization", "matching impedance" ) is IMO also very important psychologically for the rider as they all tend to reflect aspects of "connection" with the horse.
You relax!!! Not being a sack of potatoes! Educate yourself for real!!!! Its about letting the horse bring you along for the ride not bouncing on top of them....simply learn about your seat and most of all letting go and going with your horse!!! 🙄and "bounce comes from going against the movement".... take it from somebody who has only trained with grand prix trainers! Your facts need to be corrected😘
I believe most of the movement is front to back so you disperse or absorb the movement through your mid-section, not your leg. When you brave your legs your bottom half moves with the horse. But hey, what do I know..
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Grazie mille. Per me questa è la migliore e più completa spiegazione che ho ascoltato finora. Utilissima!
*drool* This boy is so lovely.. what beautiful gaits
Honestly.. clearest, simplest explanation I’ve heard on how to sit the trot. I see the energy flowing out your heels. I’ll give it a go!
Ahh...so the legs are the exist point for the bounce! Wow!! 😮
I had to come back to this , as I practiced my sit trot, andthe heels analogy really helped!
Very Well explained. thankyou .
Fantastic explanation
Hi Jess. Please, pretty please a tutorial on how you do your plaits like in this video. 🙂
All right Sir....I like your descriptions of how to WORK at sitting the trot, I'll try it this Sunday. Cheers.
What a great explanation! You are a great teacher and trainer! I often wondered how to master the sitting trot. Thank you Joseph and Jess behind the camera!
He is so beautiful 😍😍 and his movement is so smooth. Perfect.
Heel out and down! OMG brilliant! Thank you
Thanks for showing and explaining what is active and passive leg!
My trainer used to say that as a rider, in sitting trot, you have to trot too.
As usual fantastic explanation. Great job Joseph and Jess behind the camera.
Ask most riders "how many years did it take you to get good at the sitting trot?" They'll say " I'm still working on it! Lol"
True. Every horse is a new lesson!
I think it REALLY helps to ride bareback, or if you have a boney TB, a padded saddle pad. You get balance snd a great seat unlike anything else.
@@mdee860 i got a good method sitting the trot without saddle, But its a different thing if it is on
Truth!!!
Wow! I needed this thank you! We all struggle together in no stirrup November XDD
Great video! I always imagine my inner thigh as a giant rubber band that I can adjust the tension on to absorb the horse's energy. I think you can feel it better bareback b/c you can feel the horse's back muscles too. Small doses though if you want to be able to walk the next day lol!
Steksinoly - agree 100%. So important for young (teenage yrs) riders to ride bareback or with a saddle pad. There is just no other way to recreate the centered balance that develops from bareback or no stirrups. My friends & I had a tough instructor for a few yrs. At one point he made us post trot - no stirrups!! Told us to continue & he stepped out of the arena. He came back almost 20 minutes later, had forgotten he gave us that command. Our thighs were screaming 😁. However, it made jumping no reins/ no stirrups do-able.
Excellent explanation, thank you
You’re welcome
Agree 100%! You described this perfectly! Thank you 😊
The way it was described to me to think about was like a hand and a basketball. Just wait. When you bounce a basketball, what happens to the energy and momentum of the basketball " bounce " if you just stick your hand and hold it there for the basketball to run into? The energy and momentum stop. So will your horse's trot. Now, you put your hand out, and as the ball approaches your hand, your hand follows the ball up to the apex. So should your seat until the ball reaches the top of its ascent, and then at that point, you follow the descent. Upon the point when you feel the activity of the horse ( or the ball ) begins to slow, your hand pushes down on the ball and the ball remains active and bounces back up. The same thing should happen with your seat. You push down and forward, since the horse is moving and carrying you forward , with an active seat and this increases your horses activity. If you don't follow the horse's motion, it's like the fixed hand and the basketball. Your bouncing and slamming the horse's back, kills the momentum and energy of the horse. And, as Joseph explained, you still need to keep an active leg and not pinch with your knee. For someone like me, who can't walk and chew gum at the same time, working all these parts simultaneously was very hard. And yes, I not only had No Stirrups November, but also Stirrupless Saturdays and Sundays too for years and years! I hope this makes sense to you all.
Awesome description and lesson to not slam down on the horses spine! It's also different on different horses, they each have their own "rhythm" that the rider has to get synced with. Some are a lot easier to get synced with than others. Where did this no stirrups November come from? It's pretty cool.
I was raised on a Tennessee walking horse. Rode bareback. We would just glide along. Horrible trot, no canter. Ugh loved her though.
They have the best hearts. Shame about the weird shuffling, tremendous character in those sweet horses
Ugh... been working hard on that lower leg off thing! Hard habit to break but getting there! Realized too that my glute muscles were weak so made it hard to hold my leg "off" ! But once you feel it, so much easier! Great video! Thanks! 🙃👏👏🦄 oh and that pony is very handsome!
I’m pretty sue she/he is a horse
Very useful I will try that in November.
Really great explanation & it is hard to convey...in words. 👍 Agree, you can not be totally passive or you would eventually bounce off. Also, you have to let your hips move easily with your horse's gait. Great video & beautiful braids Jess!
Very good clarification
The ONLY way I could sit trot in the beginning was with no stirrups, I had to do ankle circles to keep from gripping, and it really helped me learn how to disperse the momentum via my ankles, it was the only way I could sit trot for a while, haha!
Can you show us how to do no stirrups with posting trot and in a half seat canter ?
Well done👍
Really well explained and I found it really helpful. Thank you.
Great lesson! 💕
Will work on this today. Thanks!
Thank you for this video. Going to try!
Very graceful
„Centered Riding“ 1 and 2 by Sally Swift - it’s always worth reading.
Sylvia Loch as well. Her books and films are great !
I was going to say, remember Sally Swift?
Thanks really enjoyed your explanation
Nice horse. Smooth gait. What do you do with your hands. Elbows in and down..?
It’s funny because on some horses u r like yes I’ve got this and than on a different horse it’s like holy crap we’re is my ibuprofen 🥵
So right! 😳
Like, like, like
So funny Martina! I agree, some horses have a horrible trot, whether collected or extended trot 😁
Exactly one horse I ride his trot is just so bumpy it’s impossible for me to sit but others I have ridden I can sit the trot fine it just depends
I don't know why but I have always found the sitting trot easier than posting. my coach is always yelling at me to post 😂 the thing I struggle with the most is going from canter back to trot either bareback or without stirrups. I usually just go back to walk instead
Another way to visualize your seat is this, in order to not bounce on your horses spine (not pleasant for your horse) so picture this: keep your seat relaxed, like mashed potatoes - NOT like a sack of whole potatoes. With mashed potatoes - no daylight from your seat to your saddle or from your seat to your horse's spine, if bareback. Much smoother & your horse will really appreciate that! 🐴💞
"All my young ones?.......I don't know...." Changes topic a little. :) Well said. :) I am also not going to ride my three year old stallion without stirrups.
What age do you feel its OK that the horses bCk is strong enough to do sitting trot? Nice style you have there, also do you ever do the raising trot without the stirrups?
"Strong enough" is really relative to the horse's breed and training and physical maturity. Different breeds will mature earlier than others. Assume the horse should have a developed core and topline before you do any focused sitting trot. At the start of my daily ride, I'll drop stirrups and walk for a while (with legs active, not just dangling with toes dropped) as the horse loosens up and continue into rising trot same way. This helps me to warm up my hip flexors, knees, lower back, and core at the same time as my horse is warming up his joints and muscles. I'll pick up the stirrups (which often feel too short by this time!) and continue warming up the horse.
I've been trying to perfect sitting trot for fifteen years and still haven't mastered it ! I can do it easily on my Friesian mare because even though she has an energetic, high stepping trot she is so smooth but my Welsh section d I cannot sit his trot because it's so bouncy even though he is a pretty ploddy dude 😂
360p again :( Sorry but I don't know if you know this is such low res. Is something set wrong on the new camera? It was 1080p60 with "You have to see this canter. He is 3". Hoping you'll realize soon. :)
When did "no stirrups November" become a thing? Maybe I'm just way too old as it was never a thing when I was a young rider..
I think the biggest mistake people make for sitting trot is to think entirely "absorb" which just makes you a sack of potatoes. This makes it difficult for the horse to carry you and makes you ineffective as a rider. The sitting trot really requires a much more active participation by the rider. I'm not sure I'd describe the rider activity as dispersing the energy but more as synchronization so that you can use your passive and active body in time and in sync with the horse's movement. An engineering description would be trying to minimize the impedance mismatch between the horse and your body- i.e., you are trying to allow the horse's energy to be transferred to your body (and vice versa) without interruption (which is what causes the bounce and impact). The choice of these descriptive terms ("synchronization", "matching impedance" ) is IMO also very important psychologically for the rider as they all tend to reflect aspects of "connection" with the horse.
You relax!!! Not being a sack of potatoes! Educate yourself for real!!!! Its about letting the horse bring you along for the ride not bouncing on top of them....simply learn about your seat and most of all letting go and going with your horse!!! 🙄and "bounce comes from going against the movement".... take it from somebody who has only trained with grand prix trainers! Your facts need to be corrected😘
Remaining very supple with your hips and pelvis, moving with the motion of the horse, up and down, forward and back in the saddle.
I had a better active leg without stirrups then with stirrups.
Is that Finch?
Looking good in skintight grey breeches and tall hot tight riding boots.
I believe most of the movement is front to back so you disperse or absorb the movement through your mid-section, not your leg. When you brave your legs your bottom half moves with the horse. But hey, what do I know..
You need a hired hand,I’ll work for free and I’ll get my own lodging,just want ride and learn,would love to be part of EDI
So incorrect