How to Sit on a Horse Before Trotting or Jogging

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Hi, I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you some tips and techniques that I use when I'm trotting and jogging my horse. So once you are on your horse there is a certain way that you want to sit that is going to balance you most effectively on the horse and enable for you to ride the most effectively. So when you are sitting on your horse you don't want to be sitting too far forward or too far back. If you end up sitting too far forward, this is the cue that your want your horse to go forward so your horse may end up taking off on you or picking up some speed. If you end up sitting too far back, this is going to cause the horse to either slow down or get hollow on its back which would cause it to be out of balance and not keep cadent. So you want to sit directly on your sit bones nice and relaxed. You want to sit square on the horse. You don't want to be leaning off to one side or off to the other cause that would throw your horse off balance as well. So we are going to be sitting straight with our head, shoulder, hip and heel all in line. We want our heel down, we don't want it up because that could cause our foot to get too far in steer up and if we where thrown, that could get our foot stuck in our steer up and we can end up getting dragged which could be pretty dangerous. So we are going to keep our head, shoulder, and heel on in a line. We want our chin parallel with the ground, we don't want to be looking at our the sky and we don't want to be looking down in at our horse either. We want to be looking straight ahead at the horse ears. We are going to be holding our reins nice and loosely right in front of the pommel of your saddle. The horn here and a few inches about 4 inches above the horse shoulder. We also want our shoulder bent and on the side. We want them nice and relaxed, we don't want to be really ridged or you know we don't want to be really loose or really sloppy. So we are going to keep our shoulders back, keep your shoulder blades touching together. That would cause your back to have a nice perfect arch. You don't want to arch back too far, you also don't want to get slumped in your shoulders. That would throw your horse off balance as well. So we are going to keep a nice loose grip on the reins. Keep our chin up, keep our shoulder, hip and heel all in a line. Keep our heels down, we are going to look where we want to go and then you would be balanced effectively so you can ride your horse the best way. So that is how you want to sit and keep your posture when you are riding your horse.

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