Introduction to Intermediate 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 and challenging to do it well. Bareback riding is a particular kind of horseback riding which is done without a saddle. If you would like to learn the basics of bareback riding, see our beginner bareback riding series. If you have already learned a little about bareback riding a horse but want to learn some intermediate tips and techniques, learn from one of our expert horse riders.

In this free online video series learn intermediate bareback horse riding techniques from expert horse rider Sarah Stetner. She will teach you how to jog the horse, canter, and transition the horse into various speeds while riding bareback. Learn also how to back the horse up and make it side pass or walk side-ways. All of these techniques will be done with minimal use of the reigns and visible cues.

Video Transcript

" Hi my name is Sarah Stetner I'm a expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. This is my intermediate bareback video. In this video I'm just going to show you how to do a transition from a walk and starting loop or canter. That means the same thing. That is the horses third gate. Anyways what I'm going what I want you guys to rememberer is to keep the contact and the pressure in the left leg at all times. If you don't your legs would be loose like this and swing back and forth. You also want to keep good posture and I'm going to say it again you want to keep the equitation line from your ear to your shoulder to your hip to the back of your heels you want that a straight line in imaginary straight line to keep there. You are bareback you are not with a saddle and the pressure the horse could feel you a lot more without the saddle."