Introduction to Bareback Riding

Series Summary

Throughout most of recorded history, horses have played a major role in the civilizations of mankind. These magnificent animals have carried us into battle, fierce and unafraid. They have pulled our plows and buggies, and helped us travel long distances. They’ve been essential in herding and driving our cattle, and the police still use them for crowd control situations in urban environments. Without a doubt, horses have proven to be well-adapted for human life, expressing qualities of loyalty and bravery, responding to commands. Riding horses is fun and challenging especially if you ride bareback. If you would like to learn how to ride a horse bareback, learn for free online from one of our experts who holds hundreds of awards in horse riding.

Everyone needs instruction before hopping on a horse and hoping all goes well, especially if you are riding without a saddle.In these free horseback riding video lessons, learn how to ride a horse bareback. Our expert will discuss tips on getting on the horse without a saddle, and the proper form in which to ride. Learn how to walk, jog, and stop the horse with minimal use of the reins.

Video Transcript

" Hi my name is Sarah Stetner I'm a expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. In this video I'm just going to teach you how to ride bareback. So I have is bridle on already. So all ready to go. What you want to rememberer for bareback is there is no saddle. So basically you just want to squeeze with your legs. You want to use this right here basically to hang on as much as you can and you want to keep contact all the way down on you leg throughout every gate the walk, jog, and canter. This video is just a beginner video so I'm just going to walk and jog. Show you how to do that. So I'm going to lead him over. You can either swing on the horse which you always want to get on on the left side of the horse rememberer you do everything on the left side of the horse. Get on lead, get off. You can either swing on which you grab on to his mane and swing up or you could jump up which I can do I'm not going to show you how to do that but, you can do it that way. Which I'm just going to use a rail it is the easies way to do. So I bring him over here."