Speed Transitioning Tips for Riding a Horse Bareback

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Sarah Stetner I'm a expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. I just showed you how to come down from the canter to the walk in a nice smooth transition. You don't even want to let people know that you are transitioning. You want to go ahead I'm going to show you here. Drop you hips, kind of sit down, and I'm constantly squeezing up here to hang on but you want to put more pressure up here as you sit down. Let me go ahead and get a side view here. Holt. So you want you are sitting like this on the horse, he is bouncing you a little bit, you just want to go ahead and drop your hips, sit down right here, but don't lean to far forward because if you do your legs are going to come up here. Or if you go to far back you are going to lose this position also and you are going to go like that. That is bad equitation. Make sure that you keep contact and pressure throughout your whole body. Not that you are stiff but, kind of relax with pressure in your body. With your posture upright. So you want to keep that position throughout all of the transition and gates of bareback."