What Is Western Equitation: Free Horseback Riding Lessons

Video Transcript

" My name is Sarah Stetner; I'm an expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to ride with western equitation the proper way. What equitation is is exactly like kind of how your legs are how your posture is, and how everything the way that you sit on the horse. Your hand this hand everything has to be perfect you have to sit up. So what I'm going to explain to you is how I'm going to keep this equitation line from my ear to my hip to my heel the back of my heel. I'm going to try to keep that the whole way. The whole way as from the jogging, loping, that sort of thing. So this is from the stand still. This is where you could put your left hand or your rein hand if your right handed. If you are right handed you use your left hand for the reins. You go ahead and sit up, put your legs, you want your toes in, you want tyour legs to have pressure on them at all times. Especially right in here this would make you sit. You know keep it so you look smooth when you are riding. So you want this equitation line from you ear to your shoulder to your hip to the bottom of your heel the whole time. This hand could either be free right here. I have seen a lot of people hang it. What I usually do or a lot of people ride with it up here and hold this position with it so they are even like this. What I do is just put it on my knee but, you want this elbow to be inside. This is what the judges want on the equitation you want to keep this position throughout the whole time that you are riding. With the horse moving, horse not moving. So I just went overview of a quick equitation on how you want to be riding and you want your shoulders back to more back then forward. You can't be slothed over. You want them back like that. So that is the equitation line that you want to keep when you are riding."