Part 1: English Equitation Form: Free Horseback Riding Lessons

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Sarah Stetner. I'm an expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. I just showed you how to adjust the stirrups. Now that I have adjusted my stirrups, they do feel much better. The way that you can tell is if you put your foot out of the stirrups and let it hang, it should come to about right where your boot curls right here, that is this part right here so that is where it should come to. So my stirrups are adjusted. I want to keep my heels down. This whole time that I am riding, keep your heels down, toes up and weight in the stirrups. It is very important in English since we will be posting and using our legs that we keep the whole weight in our whole leg. So we hang on a little bit right up here, we keep the weight in our legs by putting pressure in our calf, right there. So you want to keep your heels down, you want to go ahead and set up with your posture, but the main part is to keep weight in your legs. "