Another tip my first trainer used on me was to put a 2$ under my butt and I had to have it by the end of the lesson so I really learned to flow with the horse on my sitting trot/canter. Very useful video :)
Somehow on stirrups and bareback is easier for me, when doing something complicated in the trot/canter I try for a while and if I keep dropping my stirrups I just take em off and do the thing. Having the ability to lenghthen and shorten my legs for different cues and things is probably why. I should get tohse magnetic stirrups lol
I actually absolutely love no stirrups. I only get to ride horses during my weekly lessons, so at the end of them I always put up my stirrups and ride around for a bit.
I'm more comfortable without stirrup mind I was a dressage rider so theres that..and I'm riding 40 years..but riding in the saddle without them is great for your riding poison ..that and a whip down your bra strap will have you riding looking so well in no time..honestly if you cant ride without your stirrups you dont ride well..your depending upon something you shouldn't be..work on your balance when not riding and you'll see a huge difference..I'm also riding and competing a long time..I dont compete in comps any more Iove endurance rides in this stage if m life..
@@bqualitysnake6549 tells me you are a better rider than ppl who complain about riding without...if you cant ride without stirrups.. you cant ride..well..any fool with a little balance can hang on ..
I Got A Little Scared There When I Saw This Video On My Recommendations, I Thought Is Was A Troom Troom Equestrian Video, Judging From The Thumbnail. I Actually Liked The Video A Lot, Consider Me A New Human! 🐴💞
@@TKDDLJ09 I've felt a snapped one before and they're pretty sharp. Like getting a splinter! Definitely not a nice experience. Luckily one has never actually snapped in my hands yet
one thing i have found to help with my eq. my eq was really good and i haven’t been able to ride a whole lot so my eq got worse. but what i did was close my eyes and i naturally went back to how i used to ride. obviously use a calm horse you can trust a lot but that is just something i go back and do every now and again
I agree closing your eyes is really useful, especially for feeling your horse's movement. I'm still getting the hang of feeling the right diagonal when transitioning to trot but when I close my eyes and feel the inside hind leg at its downmost point and rise as it comes up I get it right. And so my transitions between rising trot/2 point trot, canter/trot and walk/trot have gotten a lot smoother from closing my eyes and focusing on the legs' movement. And it's also made a world of difference in feeling when to half halt and understanding the half halt better. I also find closing your eyes and feeling the movement is really useful when riding other horses too because they all move so differently! I've still got a long way to go but feel is something that can't be taught and only practiced, and closing your eyes helps to just focus on that :D But I would recommend being on the lunge if spending a lot of time with your eys closed of course :)
Our rug laundry always vacuum packs the rugs that are been put away for the summer..they are so handy to store like that..I love this..its one of my lifes little pleasures...
Yay! These will be soo useful. I’m going on camp soon so these will be really helpful when I’m away from my trainer and when I’m doing cross country! Thank you soooo much!❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰
around 18:53, my friend always had this problem so she tried a ball (like you said) and it still didn't work so she decided to put her phone there instead... ofc you never wanna drop it so it actually worked XD Idk if this would help some of you but yeah...
Loved this the most so far, keep doing these with great tips. I had to learn to ride with the whip threaded through my arms, now everytime I mount a horse (and I am 60yrs now) my posture is perfect, I also realised when I was 8yrs and having lesson's that my core strength got better and stronger which relates so much to straight shoulder's and balance when riding, and it creates that deper dish into the saddle so you become one with the horses movements....
love these "hacks" some I knew but the saddle indent (boy I hate those in western saddles too) with the noodle easy and make perfect sense, then especially the sit the trot will help me. Thanks so much!
Also with the no stirrups I ride bare back and that can help too. Baby oil on their nose for showing to make it shiny. I do this all the time i don’t know if a lot of you do it but Apple cider vinegar bath helps with fungus. Those are my hacks please leave a comment of other one that I might not know.👍🏻😃🐴🦄
Just a heads up- The baby oil on their nose can actually be quite dangerous as it can cause burns on the skin due to the oil being heated up by the sun (some people I know said their horses got almost third degree burns from the baby oil hack).
My coach one time had our entire lesson group ride without stirrups while holding diving rings on our toes. It really helped us all learn to keep our toes up and our leg on- even though we all eventually lost them. 😂
Love the bit gaurd hack those have always been my arch nemesis 😂 I've developed a few over the years of being a cheap skate Equestrian (I figured out how to make my own jump cups, blocker ties, bumper pull trailer hutch alignment to quickly hitch up trailer etc...) I keep meaning to make a video on them, but haven't gotten around to it. Maybe sometime soon I will!
I wish I knew the feedbag trick MONTHS ago! I have been wrapping my percheron's hoof because of canker and since hes so heavy he would wear through the tape! Thank you!!!
I stumbled upon this randomly looking into graphics tutorials, but i loved it. I rode my whole childhood. I want to back up your no stirrups comment. My trainer, by all accounts, was a brutish woman, lol. Horses and students alike, feared her ire. She used to make us jump an entire hour with no reins OR stirrups. Not even leading, but teaching us to balance and lead with just the strength of our legs and our feet as guidance. I'll be honest, I rode for almost 16 years before i fell off. I have been bucked, spooked, reared on, but that training made me almost impervious to falling. When i did finally fall, it was while i was training a horse, and we were trying a 5 foot brick wall (wood, obviously), and right before the jump, i must have panicked, and the horse felt it and stopped short. :O) I went flying over and because i had never fallen, and we were not even in a paddock, I held onto the horse's reins until my trainer finally jumped on me and grabbed the reins out of my hands. :) Good memorys. I had to stop riding due to serious hip problems in my 20s, but i miss is deeply. You go girl.
I love this video! There are hardly any actually good hack videos, I think. Also, I totally agree with the recommendation for no stirrups! I'm learning to ride and, when my teacher made me ride without stirrups, it helped me so much to find my seat. I have a tip to add: what helps me to remember to keep my hands upright instead of like I'm holding a shopping trolley is to look at how my stick is sitting. With 'trolley hands' it pokes out to the side a bit and lays across your thigh awkwardly but, with correct hands, the stick goes with the line of your thigh and sticks out backwards. I find this is really helpful because there is a secondary feeling that you're looking out for and the right hand position is much more comfy.
There are some great hacks, thank you. The horse I ride has trouble with its hoofs at the moment and we have to bandage it as you showed. They adviced it to wrap the hoof in a diaber first. So it's a bit softer for the hoof.
I've literally been riding horses for a long a$$ time and I NEVER could grasp/remember the quick release knot. I always felt soooo dumb for it. But you explained it different then everyone who has ever taught me (and that is a long list 😳) and I totally get it now! Thank you!!!!!💙
These were so useful! I have a pretty bad eq and i dont have a dressage whip or ant whip but since my dad used to do crossfit i could use one of his poles!
About the Trotting Thing... I learned how to trot riding a Standardbred, retired harness racer. After trotting with him for a while, I went back to riding my OTT Thoroughbred and found him so easy to ride at a trot! I also had a QH-Arab Cross at the time, and he was even smoother! Many years later, I owned another Standie who had this habit of going from a pace to a trot as I kicked him up. He absolutely wouldn't canter under saddle, but would canter in harness. I'd keep spurring him and he'd go faster and faster at a trot, then as he was slowing, slip back into a pace, then a slower trot, then a pace. I can tell you, riding a standie at full trot (as fast as a canter!) teaches you how to trot, and riding a standie that alternates between a pace and a trot at moderate speeds teaches you to pay attention to your gait! I miss cantering. My standie boy had to be euthanized about 8 months ago because of a leg-in-fence injury, and I have just bought my next horse, an unbroken Waler-Curly Mustang cross mare. It's going to be so good to be able to canter again, I so miss going for a good old canter!
The first pony i ever rode, I outgrew 2 years ago. So, I walk, trot, canter him bareback. He I very obese and a managed to get his weight down a bit from tough lunging and riding. I've gotten very good balance and seat from doing that 2-3 a week, for ten weeks, for two summers. My sitting trot is beautiful!
I'm defo a big fan of no stirrups. I've got an excellent instructor who has done this exercise with me from the start and this, along with other valuable exercises like 2 point, has improved my balance so much than when I was with any other instructor. I come out of every single one of my fortnightly lessons feeling a good improvement. Also I find these little exercises to be fun too. We do a few diferent exercsises every lesson and nothing is ever the same or monotonous. My one hour lessons, which I used to get really puffed out with, go so quickly now and I always leave them dying for more!! We usually spend part of the lesson on the lunge, and part off the lunge. A lot of people in Australia have the attitude that the lunge isn't needed once you've been able to get off it for the first time but I'm so glad we do a lot of lunge exercises because it is really really helping me to build a solid seat and balance. And for instance, if I lose my balance for a moment, I never default to hanging on the reins because of all the time we've spent developing balance on the lunge, that my body subconsciously doesn't even think of pulling on the reins as an option whereas I most certainly would have if I didn't do all this lunge work!
By doing that, you are literally throwing your horse's balance forward and backward. That is not the way to ride the canter...you're getting in your horse's way. Upper body should stay upright (there will still be some swing as you never want to be rigid), and allow your seat to follow the motion. Any gait you ride your horse in, always follow with your seat. Never your upper body. I would suggest getting a good riding coach. If that's not possible, there are plenty of helpful videos on UA-cam.
I dont have a whole lot of exywith horses, afterall I dont have a horse... but I hope to get one, and so I have gone to a couple classes, and my favorite lady made me learn how to ride bareback first, and so when I was put into a saddle, I didnt have a lot of the problems like slouching and bouncing and whatnot. I miss riding, haven't been on a horse in just over a year....
The whip behind your back really helps! My old instructor would do this but she made me leave it there for a whole hour, let's just say my arms were in a very bad state and very sore so know I am always concentrating on my arms lol
In my horse school they always taught us to do the loops until we didn’t get any more rope and my 8y old self couldn’t do all of them 😅 I haven’t riden or token care of a horse in years but these video brought so many memories back!!
Also, its not necessarily correct that your elbows will tuck in automatically if you hold your hands correct. Because I hold them upraised, but my elbows are still a problem i struggle with. Mostly the elbow thing also comes with a lack of balance. If one works on ones balance it will become easier as well.
at a comp your cloths are usually on a hanger sooooo at the end of the day ur usually wearing your comp cloths so u can use ur hanger (if its plastic). as a scrapper
I had to do a crop resting on top of my hands because I ride with my hands sideways and really low. That was a hard lesson burn it sure did help a lot.
I always had a pair of cheap flip flops in my trailer for driving home from shows, and I’ve definitely used those as sweat scrapers a few times along with an old dressage whip😂 sometimes you just gotta be a thrifty equestrian!
I had to ride a year without stirrups because of a fucked up saddle that I had. that helped sooo much with my sits so definitely try riding without stirrups.
I rode a really bouncy horse last year and what really helped me was riding bareback A LOT. For the entire month of November I rode bareback and it kinda forced me to learn how to sit with my horse
Good God girl, where have you been all my life?! Some of these hacks I knew, but I did learn a thing or two (or 3, or 4...) from this video. I'm 62 and got my first pony when I was 6, never been without a horses, and competed (hunter/jumper, dressage student for 10 years) ever since. But as they say in the horse world, "You learn something new every day! I just tried the hack of using baling twine to open a bail, and damn if it didn't work! You now have yourself a loyal viewer! Thank you!
Something that also works for me is get an old pair of long socks and put some rice full to the top. And put it in the boot every time you take them off. It also removes any moisture in the boot as well which I get a lot of problem with. But you only have to do this once and last years which is great.
My legs flop around a lot so I use cheap nylon stirrup straps (or binder twine) to tie my stirrups to my girth. I only do this with a instructor and just to flat work. 😁
That bit guard hack is actually amazing tho.... I am forever putting off changing them because my fingers hurt so much trying the stretch them out!!! ❤️
Something we used to do for a better seat was to have cardboard coasters that you put between you and your saddle and then going through different gaits. If you're in a group it's fun to write down the name of the rider on the coasters and have a competition of who lasts the longest
if you are scared to do no stirups lenthin then a hole or 2 and lay a dressage wip across your wrists it not only helps you get your balince but teaches you how to hold your hands and keep them still welst in sitting trot and/or canter
I just jumped into doing no stirrups and I love and when I say love I mean it I love doing no stirrups and it has increased my leg muscle a lot so it you don’t have much leg muscle yet I recommend it and I simply did it with no one leading me around
With the baling twine thing use Kno there is a weak point in straw twine so if u find it pull it and then once the first pulls off then grab the other pull up and it will come off lol xx no twine needed or sizzors xxx
It does help since when I do it was helping with my posture on the horse and she did it for a couple of sentence than it got better but she does to people for the entire lesson for me they didn’t need to
Another tip my first trainer used on me was to put a 2$ under my butt and I had to have it by the end of the lesson so I really learned to flow with the horse on my sitting trot/canter.
Very useful video :)
OMG going to try this, and reward myself with frozen yogurt after training. Huhu
Syaza Lestrange yes! I hope it goes well :)
My cousin/ trainer did that to me but we didn't have anything so we used a leaf 😂
Andy StPierre what if you do rising trot
@@innesrawdon1481 you should learn to do both as it will help you with the other canter etc some horses are easier to do sitting than rising trot
"your going to hate me here... no sturrips " *insert audible sigh*
Somehow on stirrups and bareback is easier for me, when doing something complicated in the trot/canter I try for a while and if I keep dropping my stirrups I just take em off and do the thing. Having the ability to lenghthen and shorten my legs for different cues and things is probably why. I should get tohse magnetic stirrups lol
I actually absolutely love no stirrups. I only get to ride horses during my weekly lessons, so at the end of them I always put up my stirrups and ride around for a bit.
Me: jeeeeej😂
I'm more comfortable without stirrup mind I was a dressage rider so theres that..and I'm riding 40 years..but riding in the saddle without them is great for your riding poison ..that and a whip down your bra strap will have you riding looking so well in no time..honestly if you cant ride without your stirrups you dont ride well..your depending upon something you shouldn't be..work on your balance when not riding and you'll see a huge difference..I'm also riding and competing a long time..I dont compete in comps any more Iove endurance rides in this stage if m life..
@@bqualitysnake6549 tells me you are a better rider than ppl who complain about riding without...if you cant ride without stirrups.. you cant ride..well..any fool with a little balance can hang on ..
I wasn't looking at the name of the channel and tought it was Troom Troom😂😂
I thought it was 5 minutes craft. So I was like, "well, let's see how many of those are actually usefull" 😂😂
You mean you thought
Omg same
What
Samee
I Got A Little Scared There When I Saw This Video On My Recommendations, I Thought Is Was A Troom Troom Equestrian Video, Judging From The Thumbnail. I Actually Liked The Video A Lot, Consider Me A New Human! 🐴💞
Carly Lusnak omg same 😂
Same!
Ieva • well we are all glad that it wasn’t troom Troom
Carly Lusnak I did too..
Carly Lusnak sameeee 😂😂
her : "warm water not boiling hot so think shower water"
my showers: * could cook food in my temperature of water*
Ahahaha samee
Ya same
this is a mood
Lmao same
Yep same
Does anyone else tie a quick release knot differently
Up
yes
@Neva B yea same! But I soon found out it was easier for the horse to escape so now I tie it around
I cross them over make a hoop and put it through ahah
@@equinejamie7159 yeah same xx
Putting Waterbottles into the Boots are also a good way against them Falling :)
Just make sure with hack #6 that you don't break your whip! Check that it is flexible enough first before bending it like crazy aha
Eeeep, that sounds like it could hurt if it snaps!!! Never thought about that, since all of mine has been pretty flexible.
@@TKDDLJ09 I've felt a snapped one before and they're pretty sharp. Like getting a splinter! Definitely not a nice experience. Luckily one has never actually snapped in my hands yet
one thing i have found to help with my eq. my eq was really good and i haven’t been able to ride a whole lot so my eq got worse. but what i did was close my eyes and i naturally went back to how i used to ride. obviously use a calm horse you can trust a lot but that is just something i go back and do every now and again
I agree closing your eyes is really useful, especially for feeling your horse's movement. I'm still getting the hang of feeling the right diagonal when transitioning to trot but when I close my eyes and feel the inside hind leg at its downmost point and rise as it comes up I get it right. And so my transitions between rising trot/2 point trot, canter/trot and walk/trot have gotten a lot smoother from closing my eyes and focusing on the legs' movement. And it's also made a world of difference in feeling when to half halt and understanding the half halt better. I also find closing your eyes and feeling the movement is really useful when riding other horses too because they all move so differently! I've still got a long way to go but feel is something that can't be taught and only practiced, and closing your eyes helps to just focus on that :D But I would recommend being on the lunge if spending a lot of time with your eys closed of course :)
You can also use baling twine as sweat scraper!😅
Oh yeah XD
The for the likes!
I'm not sure,but won’t the bailing twain burn the horse or won’t it hurt cause it is rough
I dunno
Just a thought
Sorry if I am wrong
@@yasmeen0224 don't worry I tryed this on my chestnut mare and it works fine!
Beth Equestrian
Oh ok
Thanks 🙏
These are really useful! I’m going to begin jumping soon and I’m so excited to get back on a horse after so long. I’ll definitely use these.
Anxious Gorl ooh awesome! Good luck btw Xx
Good luck with jumping
Ummmm I’ve jumped to
Imogen Reeves and?
I just began jumping. Good luck!
The knot hack you showed is just what is normally taught in riding schools in germany 😅
The tying hack you mentioned is how I tie my horse all the time. It works very. I have used it all my life
Our rug laundry always vacuum packs the rugs that are been put away for the summer..they are so handy to store like that..I love this..its one of my lifes little pleasures...
Yay! These will be soo useful. I’m going on camp soon so these will be really helpful when I’m away from my trainer and when I’m doing cross country! Thank you soooo much!❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰
My daughter is horse loving and has the same photo in video backround in her room.
around 18:53, my friend always had this problem so she tried a ball (like you said) and it still didn't work so she decided to put her phone there instead... ofc you never wanna drop it so it actually worked XD Idk if this would help some of you but yeah...
Loved this the most so far, keep doing these with great tips. I had to learn to ride with the whip threaded through my arms, now everytime I mount a horse (and I am 60yrs now) my posture is perfect, I also realised when I was 8yrs and having lesson's that my core strength got better and stronger which relates so much to straight shoulder's and balance when riding, and it creates that deper dish into the saddle so you become one with the horses movements....
Love this!!! You could also use bailing twine as a sweat scraper if your horse is scared of wips
love these "hacks" some I knew but the saddle indent (boy I hate those in western saddles too) with the noodle easy and make perfect sense, then especially the sit the trot will help me. Thanks so much!
The riding tips at the end remind me of when I learned to ride as a kid. Good memories!
Also with the no stirrups I ride bare back and that can help too. Baby oil on their nose for showing to make it shiny. I do this all the time i don’t know if a lot of you do it but Apple cider vinegar bath helps with fungus. Those are my hacks please leave a comment of other one that I might not know.👍🏻😃🐴🦄
Why is no one commenting
Just a heads up- The baby oil on their nose can actually be quite dangerous as it can cause burns on the skin due to the oil being heated up by the sun (some people I know said their horses got almost third degree burns from the baby oil hack).
Oh thanks for letting me know and I live in Florida so ya
Is the horse on your profile pic ok 👌 soz just wondering
What do you mean by that
My trainer makes me do no stirrups rising trot and light seat canter and jumping - it’s taught me so much tho!
I’m better at bareback then I am with a saddle without stirrups 😂 I fell of with stirrups but stayed on bareback 😂
My coach one time had our entire lesson group ride without stirrups while holding diving rings on our toes. It really helped us all learn to keep our toes up and our leg on- even though we all eventually lost them. 😂
Love the bit gaurd hack those have always been my arch nemesis 😂 I've developed a few over the years of being a cheap skate Equestrian (I figured out how to make my own jump cups, blocker ties, bumper pull trailer hutch alignment to quickly hitch up trailer etc...) I keep meaning to make a video on them, but haven't gotten around to it. Maybe sometime soon I will!
Bucking Good Ride Please do. I’d love to see the jump cups
@@haleymariexx9246 sometime in the near future I will! 💕
Please do
Please do
Bucking Good Ride you should definitely make a video on these!
I wish I knew the feedbag trick MONTHS ago! I have been wrapping my percheron's hoof because of canker and since hes so heavy he would wear through the tape! Thank you!!!
I love this clip!!!! Please do more like this these are so helpful... more riding techniques please!!! Love you so much 💚
I stumbled upon this randomly looking into graphics tutorials, but i loved it. I rode my whole childhood. I want to back up your no stirrups comment. My trainer, by all accounts, was a brutish woman, lol. Horses and students alike, feared her ire. She used to make us jump an entire hour with no reins OR stirrups. Not even leading, but teaching us to balance and lead with just the strength of our legs and our feet as guidance. I'll be honest, I rode for almost 16 years before i fell off. I have been bucked, spooked, reared on, but that training made me almost impervious to falling. When i did finally fall, it was while i was training a horse, and we were trying a 5 foot brick wall (wood, obviously), and right before the jump, i must have panicked, and the horse felt it and stopped short. :O) I went flying over and because i had never fallen, and we were not even in a paddock, I held onto the horse's reins until my trainer finally jumped on me and grabbed the reins out of my hands. :)
Good memorys. I had to stop riding due to serious hip problems in my 20s, but i miss is deeply. You go girl.
I love this video! There are hardly any actually good hack videos, I think. Also, I totally agree with the recommendation for no stirrups! I'm learning to ride and, when my teacher made me ride without stirrups, it helped me so much to find my seat.
I have a tip to add: what helps me to remember to keep my hands upright instead of like I'm holding a shopping trolley is to look at how my stick is sitting. With 'trolley hands' it pokes out to the side a bit and lays across your thigh awkwardly but, with correct hands, the stick goes with the line of your thigh and sticks out backwards. I find this is really helpful because there is a secondary feeling that you're looking out for and the right hand position is much more comfy.
try folding a rug that tiny when they are 500-600 grams XD
Or use a couple of numnas.(saddle pads)
I have done the no stirrups thing in my lessons. I am like a natural born rider and it helped me improve so much
The knot you tie Fletch with is a Daisy chain, we use them in the stock trailers so the lead shanks never touch the floor.
For those who really don’t want to do no stirrups at the trot and canter imagine your hips rotating in a backwards motion, really helped me
There are some great hacks, thank you. The horse I ride has trouble with its hoofs at the moment and we have to bandage it as you showed. They adviced it to wrap the hoof in a diaber first. So it's a bit softer for the hoof.
I've literally been riding horses for a long a$$ time and I NEVER could grasp/remember the quick release knot. I always felt soooo dumb for it. But you explained it different then everyone who has ever taught me (and that is a long list 😳) and I totally get it now! Thank you!!!!!💙
My first time doing no stirrups in a trot I fell off for the first time but I have done no stirrups since so now I see how my balance has improved.
These are amazing horse hacks, thank you
I like how useful these hacks are! Thanks for sharing all of them. I think my favorite is the hay bale hack, and the hack for the tall boots.
These were so useful! I have a pretty bad eq and i dont have a dressage whip or ant whip but since my dad used to do crossfit i could use one of his poles!
the no stirrup one really works, I did a no stirrup lesson, and then two days later when I rode, everything felt so easy!
About the Trotting Thing... I learned how to trot riding a Standardbred, retired harness racer. After trotting with him for a while, I went back to riding my OTT Thoroughbred and found him so easy to ride at a trot! I also had a QH-Arab Cross at the time, and he was even smoother!
Many years later, I owned another Standie who had this habit of going from a pace to a trot as I kicked him up. He absolutely wouldn't canter under saddle, but would canter in harness. I'd keep spurring him and he'd go faster and faster at a trot, then as he was slowing, slip back into a pace, then a slower trot, then a pace. I can tell you, riding a standie at full trot (as fast as a canter!) teaches you how to trot, and riding a standie that alternates between a pace and a trot at moderate speeds teaches you to pay attention to your gait!
I miss cantering. My standie boy had to be euthanized about 8 months ago because of a leg-in-fence injury, and I have just bought my next horse, an unbroken Waler-Curly Mustang cross mare. It's going to be so good to be able to canter again, I so miss going for a good old canter!
The first pony i ever rode, I outgrew 2 years ago. So, I walk, trot, canter him bareback. He I very obese and a managed to get his weight down a bit from tough lunging and riding. I've gotten very good balance and seat from doing that 2-3 a week, for ten weeks, for two summers. My sitting trot is beautiful!
Great video super helpful thanks ☺️ 🐴
Omg I literally Love no stirrups when I did it it really helped with my position.
I'm defo a big fan of no stirrups. I've got an excellent instructor who has done this exercise with me from the start and this, along with other valuable exercises like 2 point, has improved my balance so much than when I was with any other instructor. I come out of every single one of my fortnightly lessons feeling a good improvement. Also I find these little exercises to be fun too. We do a few diferent exercsises every lesson and nothing is ever the same or monotonous. My one hour lessons, which I used to get really puffed out with, go so quickly now and I always leave them dying for more!! We usually spend part of the lesson on the lunge, and part off the lunge. A lot of people in Australia have the attitude that the lunge isn't needed once you've been able to get off it for the first time but I'm so glad we do a lot of lunge exercises because it is really really helping me to build a solid seat and balance. And for instance, if I lose my balance for a moment, I never default to hanging on the reins because of all the time we've spent developing balance on the lunge, that my body subconsciously doesn't even think of pulling on the reins as an option whereas I most certainly would have if I didn't do all this lunge work!
When I canter, I just move with the horse by moving my upper body forward and back into the correct position. It helps me sit to it
By doing that, you are literally throwing your horse's balance forward and backward. That is not the way to ride the canter...you're getting in your horse's way. Upper body should stay upright (there will still be some swing as you never want to be rigid), and allow your seat to follow the motion. Any gait you ride your horse in, always follow with your seat. Never your upper body. I would suggest getting a good riding coach. If that's not possible, there are plenty of helpful videos on UA-cam.
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I dont have a whole lot of exywith horses, afterall I dont have a horse... but I hope to get one, and so I have gone to a couple classes, and my favorite lady made me learn how to ride bareback first, and so when I was put into a saddle, I didnt have a lot of the problems like slouching and bouncing and whatnot. I miss riding, haven't been on a horse in just over a year....
Holy cow these are fantastic! I love the saddle rack noodle idea!
When I first read this I thought you said "How Cow" 😂
SE Equestrian can you pls post again
Rose_ Equestrian I’ll post again this Saturday! ☺️
Yay ok
Thank you!💝 This totally helped :)
The whip behind your back really helps! My old instructor would do this but she made me leave it there for a whole hour, let's just say my arms were in a very bad state and very sore so know I am always concentrating on my arms lol
I love the last one!!
“Warm water like shower water”
Me: what is warm shower water??
I love love love love this video xxx
I didn't know you had a dog so cute love your life hacks!!
I use the second hack as well for my long boots
Those hacks are so helpful!!!! thank you!!
This was really useful for me I am new to riding so thx for the tips have a nice day peeps
In my horse school they always taught us to do the loops until we didn’t get any more rope and my 8y old self couldn’t do all of them 😅 I haven’t riden or token care of a horse in years but these video brought so many memories back!!
If you point your thumbs up (hold your hand more verticle) while holding the reins your elbows will Naturally tuck in
@Alexandra Clermont yes I know that haha she wasn't holding her hands like that in the one clip so I didn't know if she was aware
@Alexandra Clermont We call those hands Piano hands!!!! lol, i wanna call them puppy paws now!!!
Also, its not necessarily correct that your elbows will tuck in automatically if you hold your hands correct. Because I hold them upraised, but my elbows are still a problem i struggle with.
Mostly the elbow thing also comes with a lack of balance. If one works on ones balance it will become easier as well.
you could also lengthen your stirrups for sitting trot/canter if you are too nervous
Your amazing
And your Horse is beautiful
at a comp your cloths are usually on a hanger sooooo at the end of the day ur usually wearing your comp cloths so u can use ur hanger (if its plastic). as a scrapper
I had to do a crop resting on top of my hands because I ride with my hands sideways and really low. That was a hard lesson burn it sure did help a lot.
Some of these were actually really helpful! Thank you very much :)
Wauw! Thank you for this hacks!! 😁😁
I always had a pair of cheap flip flops in my trailer for driving home from shows, and I’ve definitely used those as sweat scrapers a few times along with an old dressage whip😂 sometimes you just gotta be a thrifty equestrian!
so useful
I had to ride a year without stirrups because of a fucked up saddle that I had. that helped sooo much with my sits so definitely try riding without stirrups.
Hack #5. My tip is I use vacuum bags to store my winter or summer blankets. It 1/4 the space used and I find I have way more space in my box.
I rode a really bouncy horse last year and what really helped me was riding bareback A LOT. For the entire month of November I rode bareback and it kinda forced me to learn how to sit with my horse
Good God girl, where have you been all my life?! Some of these hacks I knew, but I did learn a thing or two (or 3, or 4...) from this video. I'm 62 and got my first pony when I was 6, never been without a horses, and competed (hunter/jumper, dressage student for 10 years) ever since. But as they say in the horse world, "You learn something new every day! I just tried the hack of using baling twine to open a bail, and damn if it didn't work! You now have yourself a loyal viewer! Thank you!
These were so helpful! Thank you!!
As a vet tech working with an ambulatory equine vet the feed bag hack is amazing. I never thought of that but it's brilliant.😁 New Subscriber
I always have used the quick release know you explained but one of my horses sometimes still finds a way to undo it!
BEAUTIFUL VIDEO😻
Something that also works for me is get an old pair of long socks and put some rice full to the top. And put it in the boot every time you take them off. It also removes any moisture in the boot as well which I get a lot of problem with. But you only have to do this once and last years which is great.
FREAKING LOVE THIS!!! I swear ima use all of these hacks they're so useful 💙💛💚🧡❤💜
Omg i just love you !
My legs flop around a lot so I use cheap nylon stirrup straps (or binder twine) to tie my stirrups to my girth. I only do this with a instructor and just to flat work. 😁
thanks x that information Im going to use it with my horse tommorrow 1/17/19
That bit guard hack is actually amazing tho.... I am forever putting off changing them because my fingers hurt so much trying the stretch them out!!! ❤️
Something we used to do for a better seat was to have cardboard coasters that you put between you and your saddle and then going through different gaits. If you're in a group it's fun to write down the name of the rider on the coasters and have a competition of who lasts the longest
This was a grate vid because I tried them out and some of them work but ya thank you and can you make more of the videos
if you are scared to do no stirups lenthin then a hole or 2 and lay a dressage wip across your wrists it not only helps you get your balince but teaches you how to hold your hands and keep them still welst in sitting trot and/or canter
you have the best videos
I am still kind of a beginner rider, and I am not nervous, and I love riding without stirrups!
Wow! Actually found this a logical (and horse safe) video!
I just jumped into doing no stirrups and I love and when I say love I mean it I love doing no stirrups and it has increased my leg muscle a lot so it you don’t have much leg muscle yet I recommend it and I simply did it with no one leading me around
You could also polo wrap the saddle rack with some old extra polo wraps
tnx relly cool hacks
I used some of your hacks and they worked
With the baling twine thing use Kno there is a weak point in straw twine so if u find it pull it and then once the first pulls off then grab the other pull up and it will come off lol xx no twine needed or sizzors xxx
My trainer made me do the thumbnail 😂😂 its so uncomfortable
Aleksandra M i find it comfy lol
my old instructor made a metal one for her daughter and used to make her ride in it the entire time... dont do that to yourself or others
It does help since when I do it was helping with my posture on the horse and she did it for a couple of sentence than it got better but she does to people for the entire lesson for me they didn’t need to
I already use pool noodles as boot trees for my tall boots! It's a great idea! Lol
I love no stirrups lmao I find sitting trot without stirrups a piece of cake haha
You deserve way more subscribers ❤️
I love horses and I love riding a horse!🐴❤️
Another Tip to pack your horses hoof is to put magic cushin and then a diper and then vet rap and then tape!!!!🤩