Question in the title.
Not sure why I have put this in training because usually bareback riding is messing about.
Trotting. Do you sit, rise or swap between the two. Or something else such as pray!!.
I read somewhere that you shouldn't do sitting trot too much because they haven't developed the back muscles until you get to elementary dressage.
How true that is unsaddled I don't know and how much of that depends if yours hollows or carries themselves?
The cob is normally too fat to ride bareback this time of year, so though I don't doubt what the weight tape says, she's not carrying beyond my pelvic abilities, yet. Saying that all of me isn't in contact with her. My knees face east and west respectively!
We swapped between the two to try and guage which was more comfortable, as well as testing different foot angles to see if that made any difference.
My body wanted to place itself in a position and I did go by that feel initially, tweaked it, read her, and went back to the original.
Over to you.
Not sure why I have put this in training because usually bareback riding is messing about.
Trotting. Do you sit, rise or swap between the two. Or something else such as pray!!.
I read somewhere that you shouldn't do sitting trot too much because they haven't developed the back muscles until you get to elementary dressage.
How true that is unsaddled I don't know and how much of that depends if yours hollows or carries themselves?
The cob is normally too fat to ride bareback this time of year, so though I don't doubt what the weight tape says, she's not carrying beyond my pelvic abilities, yet. Saying that all of me isn't in contact with her. My knees face east and west respectively!
We swapped between the two to try and guage which was more comfortable, as well as testing different foot angles to see if that made any difference.
My body wanted to place itself in a position and I did go by that feel initially, tweaked it, read her, and went back to the original.
Over to you.