Understanding Seat Aids in Riding
In this video, we are unraveling the complexities of seat aids, giving you a few simple things to always remember to always communicate clearly with your horse. Using your weight
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In this video, we are unraveling the complexities of seat aids, giving you a few simple things to always remember to always communicate clearly with your horse. Using your weight
Our bodies are incredibly interconnected, creating intricate lines of connection that influence our posture and balance in the saddle. In this new video, we will explore the surprising link between
We all want a great seat. The ability to follow the horse’s movement. To stay balanced. To give subtle cues. Perhaps the most important – to stay on! When a
What have you been told about what to do with your leg as you ride? Maybe put your leg at the girth, wrap your leg around the horse, feel your
Do you know the dreadful feeling when you make a mistake, lose your balance, get startled, and your horse’s mouth pays the price? Or the frustration of wanting to have
Have you ever been told to “wrap your leg around the horse?” As though staying on requires literally getting your leg around the horse, and hanging on. This is another
I signed up for the Balanced Riding course after watching Callie on YouTube. I’ve learned so much from this course. As you start riding when you’re young, you learn the fundamentals, but then you drift so far away from them in different skills that you’re learning that you sometimes kind of forget or don’t appropriately utilize those fundamentals anymore. And she’s really brought me back to that level of understanding specifically how to ride with the seat. And I think that’s kind of the most powerful thing you can learn to do as a rider, is to sit your horse appropriately, not have to rely so much on your reins. So that’s been huge, just completely changed the way I ride.
I just want to say thank you to everyone for all the comments and positive comments I have read while on this site. I have taken many of the free courses offered by CRK training over the past few months and it has help with my confidence. I actually rode my daughter’s horse for the first time outside in the ring since she came home from a free lease September. I have practiced many of the lessons and watched many videos. It was just at a walk but I felt confident with every thing I have learnt so far, plus I have learnt that I am not the only one who gets nervous and that it is okay to be nervous and thanks to Callie’s lessons I have learnt to take one day at a time and work though the times I feel nervous.
As a new horse owner and rider I wanted a training series that would walk me through each step of equitation for a beginner. That is exactly what I got with the CRK Balanced Rider Series. Callie King is a talented horse trainer and accomplished rider and it shows through each of her videos. She is clear and concise when discussing her insider knowledge of horse care, training, and riding.
As with all of the work Callie does, this program is informative, thoughtful, evidence based. The course provides good resources on horsemanship, managing fear, developing confidence. The videos of “how to” help your horse manage his fear were particularly good (in that) helping my horse manage moments of fear, helps me to manage mine.
This is why I so enjoy your videos and webinars. Your approach is so positively based and therefore so kind and gentle while still being very effective. You work with the horse and not against him.
THANK YOU!
