From the article: Sitting the Trot
How do you sit the trot? Share your tips and suggestions for taking the bounce out of a sitting trot. Share Your Tips
sitting and posting trot.
- Posting the trot is an up-down movement. The trick is to keep your heels down, your head up looking forward, and put the pressure all in your heels and stirrups. Sitting the trot is bouncy at first, but gets easier. How you sit the trot is sit back, don't bounce around, look up, heels down and maintain balance. If you do all that for both of them, you will become a expert equstrian.
- —Guest POSYGIRL
Sitting the Trot
- Keep your heels down, stay in the middle of the saddle, and try to sit on the back pockets of your jeans.
- —Guest luvmyhorseRoany
Sit da trot
- wat i done was have ur stirrups abit longer b'cuz if they're to short ur feet will be bouncing around everywhere and u will always fall on the cantle of the saddle hurting ur lil friend.Also it helps if u sing along to a two beat song such as the ompa lompa song off willy wonka that helps me heaps. to keep ur heels down spread ur toes. well i hoped i help. gotta gallop:)cya.xx
- —Guest Tanika
The Trot
- If u belive that u can trot then do it take the risk of trying new things..but the way to get the best trot is to relax,tighten ur knees,and belive in urself,if u belive then u will succeed,remember practice makes perfect
- —Guest reinsoflifefreak
How to sit trot.
- The easiest way to trot is to have your stirrupps pretty long. Try to hold on really tightly with your legs. What i try to imagine is as if my legs were wrapped around the horse. Hope that helps. Oh, and lean back. but not too far back that it would unbalance the horse. KEEP YOU HEELS DOWN!
- —Guest Matilda
bareback trot
- Try trotting bareback to get a feel of what your horse is doing for you. Don't let your legs go swinging everywhere. But if you feel nervous or uncomfortable try holding a little piece of mane not a lot though, you can't let yourself get dependent on it and it only should be used only when you need it.
- —Guest appaloosafreak
Sitting the Trot
- I found the key to sitting the trot, was to rely mostly on your pelvic and abdominal muscles. keeping your legs straight almost in a V at the horses side, heels down and using the "almost inside " part of your calf muscles for stability. sitting deep in the saddle, leaning as far back as possible, feeling the swing motion of the horses gait. almost tilting your pelvis on each stride.keeping your hands motionless in front of you, as not to confuse your horse in which direction youre wanting to go. i'm sure most of this advice depends on you and your horse - but for dressage, i find them to be key elements in tackling the horrible problem of bouncing around like a twit :) enjoy
- —Guest mary
Sitting the Trot
- Relaxation is the key-loose hips, legs laying lightly against the horse's sides-don't try to force your heels down, keep your ankles flexible...also-your horse's speed is important...don't try to sit a trot that's too fast for you to sit without becoming stiff and gripping. Hope this (and lots of "perfect practice") will make your sitting trot perfect!
- —LuvIrishDraft
Trotting Good
- What i do is i feel the horses rhythm. It's like a dance and I go bounce 2 and sit, bounce twice and sit. Same with walking, swing my hips the same as the horses. It can also make the horse go faster. I hope I helped.
- —Guest nikki.reed
trot
- well, i havent been riding that long and when i got tought to trot, you have to try not to bounce, but to glide up and down slowly, keep hold of the saddle at first just to help you. but make sure you hold the reins too. hope i help xx
- —Guest sarah
Put weight on the strips
- If your riding western. Don't just plant you butt on the saddle seat.Put some weight on the strips on the ball of the foot just leaving your toes over the strip. Set the strips so you can stand and have enough room under your butt to put your hand under it. Gives you control by party standing. I don't profess to be an expert but I have been on horses since the late 1940's. My dad taught me to ride and he was born in 1903. They did not have cars then. I have no idea how may I have broke but get in shape by walking. When you ride enough you will have an Indian tell you like one did in downtown SLC one day in the 1970's ,"You are a real cowboy you ride horses." I ask how he knew "By the way you walk I can always tell." I never did any English even though I decend fron Edward III. Just no intrest in bouncing. "Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves." Chief Seattle 1854
- —Guest 7J
sitting the trot
- It helped me to practice by trotting the horse with my feet out of the stirrups; I agree, it helped me keep my balance and feel my horse's rhythm...
- —Guest deedee a
Practice
- Practice...lots and LOTS of practice...hours and days of it. lol that how I did it. Find what works for you. It was rough, but now it's simple... just to master the posting thing now! HA!
- —Guest lovemyhorses
Sit Trot
- Keep your legs hanging completely down helps a lot. Toes pointed down and everything. Focus on keeping your legs still and not swinging--swinging prevents you from having the right balance. Squeezing with your knees also helps a bit. And I would share, but I haven't found a way to reduce butt and legs pains from occurring. :) (But I will share if I find a way...:))
- —Guest hMills222
