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[baymule]

I rode as a kid, bareback, barefooted, with a hay twine "bridle". I am 60 now and guess what? I use a real bridle and generally wear shoes. It's harder to spring up on a horse's back, so have to stand on something to ride bareback, but I still ride bareback.

Post your pictures here. We will celebrate your happiness with you. No PC Police here.

I know how I will die. I'll be riding a horse when I'm 105. It'll spook, throw me off and I'll hit my head on a rock. No, I won't be wearing a confounded helmet either.

 

[canesisters]

I am proud of you for taking on his training on your own and for doing such a GREAT job of it.
Congrats!!

 

[ninnymary]

I didn't see anything wrong in the picture. Perhaps those on the horse forum should see your riding through my eyes. lol

Mary

 

[bobm]

One should take some riding lessons on proper horsemanship before one attmepts to train a horse.

 

[canesisters]

Unless one has an established communication with the horse and is already making progress using what one has.

Keep at it @secuono!

 

[Smart Red]

One should take some riding lessons on proper horsemanship before one attmepts to train a horse.

Huh? As a teenager, I would ride the horses that had just been saddle broke. Lessons? Nothing more than get up and hold on. I started out farmering the reins and then trained them to neck rein.

There was a pretty swift turnover in horses so I never got all the way to what I'd have called trained anyway. That was western saddle. I did have a few lessons from the father of my BFFs riding English.

 

[baymule]

I never showed horses. Never took lessons. I have my own style of riding. Western Schlump. Yup, I just schlump along for my own pleasure.

 

[secuono]

Been posting so much, can't tell if I posted my trail ride before on here or not.
But DH and I will be going on another trail ride, hopefully, next Friday. Not on my horse, he's no where ready for that, but on the trail farm's horses.

 

[Smart Red]

Sounds like a lot of fun, secuono! Enjoy!

 

[bobm]

One should take some riding lessons on proper horsemanship before one attmepts to train a horse.

As a public service only ... Consider you upon a 1000+/- pound horse with a brain of it's own, and with every stride the horse takes there is only 4 square inches of hoof on the ground supporting the both of you. Take a look at any photo / drawing in any basic horsemanship book on proper riding / safety and compare to the photos here and see the differences for yourself. A 1000 +/- green horse and a 100 +/- novice human on it's back have different ideas as to what each is to do for each movement or signal or a horse's perceived scary bugaboo just waiting to jump out from behind a fence post. Some of you who jump aboard and hold on method of riding upon a very gentle horse are just plain lucky to not being injured after being dumped off their backs. Try it with a horse with a little bit of spunk / more highly spirited or trained in different signals as to what to perform or is a barn sour horse and that is an accident waiting to happen. Take it from this lifelong horse owner / breeder who has ridden hundreds of horses with various amounts of training , bad training, or none at all. Nothing to take lightly !!!