Introduction to Advanced Bareback Horse 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 how to learn the basics of bareback riding, see our beginner bareback riding series. If you have already learned some about bareback riding a horse but want to learn some advanced tips and techniques, learn from one of our expert horse riders.

In this free online video series learn advanced bareback horse riding techniques from expert horse rider Sarah Stetner. She will teach you how to canter and extended canter while riding bareback and how to transition between the different gates. Learn also how to jog and canter in a figure 8 as well as how to stand up on a horse.

Video Transcript

" Hello my name is Sarah Stetner I'm expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village and in this video I'm just going to show you how to ride bare back the advance version advance level I mean. So I'm going to show you how to do all the extensions of all of the gates, the jog to the extended jog, the loop to the extended loop or canter, and how to do transitions also from the extended jog from the stop. You just want to remember key rememberer go ahead and keep pressuring your legs, keep the equitation line from your ear to your shoulder to your hip to the back of your heal and also you just want to make that your horse is in the same level as you contact at there reins and I will show you how to simple patterns at the end of the video. Also how to side path going with the pull in the middle so side path down the pole and back the other way. So this is the stuff that I'm going to show you."