What's your riding style?

[Lawrence]

the holiday thing was run by a dutch couple who lived in provence in the south of france, u live in a little cottage next to the stables (actually the cottage is very spacious - there were four of us) and u eat with the family who run it or u do self catering etc, beautiful countryside and a 5 days of hacking, 4 hours each, a different route each time, including swimming in the river with the horses , thats was awesomely amazing lol.

ill ask my mum for a website link or whatever if ure interested.
i think it might quite expensive though, but im not sure

[anya]

I ride English, Western, Bareback, and sidesaddle. I love to do show jumping and dressage. I help my mom train horses to do all of the above, though.

The smoothest ride I've had so far is on a Mustang. She had Frisian in her, though as well as Andalusian, so that helped quite a bit.

Western isn't bad, either, though. It can be fun when you know how to do it right. I prefer neck reining when riding western, but I'll barrel race too.

In my opinion, sidesaddle is one of the hardest ways of riding to learn. You get a solid seat in that style.

[norsu]

I've never tried side saddle, is it fun?

[Reef.]

i've never tried it either, not with an actual side-saddle at least! lol and trying it in a english saddle is terrifying without the knee support, i found i was so paranoid of falling head first down the off side i was all tense down the near... and it must take so much practice to be able to use a stick effectively to compensate for the lack of right leg

[norsu]

Whenever I'm sitting on something without back support I get scared that i'm going to fall backwards, anyone else here with that problem? LOL

[Reef.]

depends how high it is! lol i know what you mean

[Magic]

When i was little i rode in the western saddle but then my mom quiet putting the saddle on so i learn to ride bareback. Which i did that for a long time trail riding then I started riding in 4-H. I rode English and i been ever sense. I did hunter with most all my ponies as the year went on and I found that i love to team pen and barrel race with my one pony and been riding western for quite some time now too. I pretty much do any type of riding. Usually open to anything that people are willing to teach me.

[Reef.]

thats such a good attitude to have!

[norsu]

I love barrel racing too! And yes, that is a good attitude! If you are open like that, you will get sooo much more experience!

[terri]

Oct 12, 2008 17:42:59 GMT ender said:

Cool! Barrel racing is really fun!

I love barrelracing!! I find it to be the best thing in the world. Its so hard to explain the feeling you get when you are entering the arena its better than anything!!

[cowboysgirl]

I ride Westen, English, Australian, bareback, and lazy.... lol but anymore i mostly do Western. I'm hoping to start doing english again to as well as western. I want to get back into the show circuit too. I have funn doin that

[norsu]

I've never tried an Australian saddle, but my trainer said that they are the best because they have the horn like a western saddle but provide close contact with the horse.

[mai]

I jump, ride dressage and bareback.

[Reef.]

mai, thats pretty much the same as me! do you go hacking out too? i find its best to get a range of discaplines where you can...

[Lawrence]

its best to learn with english saddle then, from what ive heard, cos u learn to support yourself using ure legs and knees and back and a supple hip, then you can ride in any saddle.

as for falling off from an english saddle, i just grip with my legs and knees, i can ride aswell without stirrups as i can with stirrups - except jumping