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Resource Guide for Horseback Riding Horseback Riding Can Be an Enjoyable Activity for Anyone Who Likes Horses and Enjoys Spending Time Outdoors in a Natural Setting Resource Guide for Horseback Riding Horseback riding can be an enjoyable activity for anyone who likes horses and enjoys spending time outdoors in a natural setting. Riding offers an opportunity for beneficial physical activity, and you can explore many beautiful places on horseback. Novice riders can gain knowledge and experience by taking lessons. You'll need to learn how to approach and ride a horse, how to care for it, and how to maintain its living quarters in a barn. Horse Riding for Beginners: What You Need to Know Anyone riding a horse needs to take safety precautions. However, beginners must be especially careful to follow safety practices such as sitting squarely in the saddle and wearing the proper attire. Riding horses is exhilarating, and will challenge you physically and mentally. Good horsemen spend a lifetime learning how to improve their riding. You've got to start somewhere. Safety First When starting horse riding for beginners, safety should be your first concern. No one wants to get hurt. We’ve all heard the horror stories of friends and family members that rode a horse and had a bad experience. Whether you are headed out for your first trail ride or signed up for your first horseback riding lesson you can learn these basics to enjoy your ride. In the Saddle Proper Clothes and Shoes for Riding Horses Come with the proper horse riding gear. You should have the minimum attire of jeans and boots that have a heel. If you don’t have sturdy boots, sneakers are the bare minimum. You are best to have something with at least a 1” heel and good traction on it to help keep your foot from sliding around in the stirrup. They will protect your toes on the ground. No shorts or Capri's should be worn because the skin on your legs will get rubbed raw by the saddle as the horse moves. Do not wear open toed shoes. You most definitely don’t want a hoof with a metal shoe on it that transmits several hundreds of pounds of pressure on your bare foot. Ouch! Helmets are a Must! Horse riding for beginners also should include a certified helmet that is made for riding horses. Horseback Riding Tips to Keep you Safe in the Saddle Horseback Riding Tips #1 Riding is a lot more about balance on the move than gripping with your legs. Try to sit squarely in the saddle, moving your body with your horse. The more tense you are, the more you will bounce. Stay in tune with how he is moving. It will be less likely that you will be to be thrown off balance. For beginners I tend to tell them to sit near their back pockets but without slouching the upper body. Having your weight set further back will help keep you secure if the horse stops suddenly. Think of driving in a car without a seat belt. If the driver suddenly hits the brakes you’ll go flying forward. Same thing on a horse except you won’t have the seat belt to keep you in the saddle! The same is true if you are sitting too far back on the horse, if he heads off quickly, you’ll be left behind. Don’t ever be too proud to get off. Some accidents are unavoidable. The horse trips and you are thrown off balance enough to come off, or he departs a bit quicker into the canter than you were expecting him to. No one can predict when something like that is going to happen. Other times when you get thrown, there were red warning flags out long before you got pitched. It’s in your gut, you know the feeling. The “uh-oh I am not so sure I want to keep riding this horse while it is doing that” feeling. This is one of the best horseback riding tips that people ignore: Go with your instincts and get off the horse. Try and regroup on the ground and if that doesn’t work, be done and start again another day. That way you will leave your confidence in tact, and possibly avoid escalating an already dangerous situation with your horse. Horseback Riding Tip #2 Don’t believe that you must always get back on right after a fall “Get back up on that horse so he doesn’t think he’s won” is a common phrase touted by instructors across the nation when a rider falls off when both horse and rider are seemingly un-hurt enough to continue. This is outdated and ridiculous advice. If you are scared, the horse will be scared by you being scared! If you get back on when you don’t feel like you should, no matter what your instructor or friends say, you are just setting yourself up to blow what little confidence you do have left. By all means if you feel fine and WANT to get back on, do so if it is not going to be dangerous for you or the horse. The horse is not going to think he’s “won” because horses don’t think like that. Horses run on instinct. For instance, when bucking there could be many reasons why. His saddle might be pinching, you may have changed tack and he doesn’t like the feel of it. He could have a back problem. He didn’t want to move forward when you asked and so started bucking instead. Especially if the behavior was unusual for that horse, try and figure out what triggered it. Then and go back and fix it through quality ground training and/or a veterinary diagnosis first before returning to riding. Horseback Riding Tip #3 You are the leader but not the dictator For a moment put yourself in your horses’ hooves. It’s 100 degrees outside, you’re hot, sweaty and itchy from a soaked saddle pad and heavy saddle and your rider is making you practice spins each direction 1000 times. If you don’t, your rider insists not so kindly with his spurs and whip that you do it again. Doesn’t sound like much fun does it? While riders should be natural leaders for their horses and direct and ask things of them, they shouldn’t be drill sergeants or dictators. Horses learn 8 times faster than people do. They do learn by repetition, but also need variety. Keeping your horses’ feelings and limits in mind will make for a happier horse who will perform better each time for you. This is much better than one that eventually won’t come to the gate to greet you because he’s tired of your “training.” Horseback Riding Tip #4 Keep your heels slightly down The ball of your foot (the widest part behind your toes) should be where your foot sits on the stirrup. You don’t want to have your feet in any further than that or you risk getting hung up in case of a fall. Contrary to popular riding belief you do not have to have a deep heel down posture to stay safe in the saddle. The reason instructors teach this is to keep your foot from sliding through and getting caught up in the stirrup which is dangerous. Having your heels way down is also believed to give you a firmer foundation. A firmer foundation should come from the way your behind sits in the saddle and how well you move with your horse, not how low your heel is. Balance and the ability to flow with your horse is much more important than having your heels down. An artificially deep heel, especially in a beginner rider, will cause tension in the ankle, knee, hips, and up to the lower back. Riders will often get pain in one of these areas from straining too much to keep the heels way down. It almost always causes you to brace through your lower back as well. Keeping the heels slightly lowered will keep your foundation strong, your foot from sliding through the stirrup but not cause you any additional problems with bracing, pain and stiffness. Hold your reins evenly and don’t have too much slack in them. How you hold the reins will vary whether you are riding English or Western. Western riders hold their reins in one hand and don’t have contact with the horse’s mouth because there is a small bit of slack or loop. Western beginners tend to hold the reins too long making it difficult to make a correction with them if needed. English riders hold the reins in two hands and with more contact or feel on the reins. Beginner English riders can tend to use the reins to keep their own balance by hanging on them. This ends up hurting the horse’s mouth as your hands bounce all over the place with the weight of your body too. If you are riding English, you will need to do your best to keep your body balanced with your hands level and still. Horseback Riding Tip #5 Keep your head up! Always look where you are going. Horses are very intuitive. They feel the slightest movements and are also great at reading our intentions. So, look up and where you want to go and it will help you guide your horse there along with your leg and rein aids. Our heads weight something like twenty pounds! Now that probably doesn’t seem like too much in comparison to the rest of our bodies, but our horse should be following our focus whether that is over the next jump or somewhere down the trail.
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