Intro to Intermediate Western Riding: Free Horseback Riding Lessons

Series Summary

Mankind has been riding horses for centuries. Horses have carried us into battle, fierce, proud, and unafraid. They have pulled plows in the fields and carried our heavy loads. They’ve helped us travel from city to city in days instead of weeks. They’ve been essential in herding and driving our cattle. The police have mounted units that they use for crowd control in the city. Without question, horses have show themselves to be a good fit for human life, expressing characteristics of loyalty and bravery, responding to commands, and usually having a calm, approachable demeanor.

Since they are wild at heart, all horses need some sort of training before humans can ride them. Especially in horseback riding, the relationship between horse and rider must be built with trust, over time, and with the proper techniques and equipment. In these free horseback riding lessons on video, learn how to ride with Western-style equitation, which refers to the alignment and posture of the rider. This series has guidelines for intermediate level Western horseback riding forms such as loping, jogging, and cantering.

Learning how to control the horse while riding is an important skill to master. These video clips specify some methods for changing the pace and gait of your horse, as well as give you some basic guidelines for improving your horseback riding experience.

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Sarah Stetner I'm a expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to ride wester equitation just a little intermediate version because in the beginning in my first video that I had was a beginning segment all we did was walk and jog and I went over the basic of what western equitation is, equitation line, a little bit of the pleasure for the horses head, and how the horse is suppose to be moving and keeping his head, how when horse moves, how smooth it is suppose to look for the rider. So in this video I'm just going to show you intermediate the intermediate way or the intermediate steps to follow. So it is going to be like cantering and or loping if how western would say. Just to start loping and how to go ahead and get that horse to the transition of loping. Also in order to ride the lope and how slow it should be for western and everything else. So I hope you like this video."