How To Practice Your Classical Seat In Horseback Riding 

I'm a new rider and I can learn a lot from people telling me what I do wrong or seeing how it's done right. I won't become a good rider without practice, but I can visualise in my mind what I need to do and how I need to position myself with the help of these videos. This video might not be useful for experienced riders but I find it useful. Thank you for making it!

I actually find videos quite helpful and I've been riding for a while, It's good to see other peoples ideas on what they see to be the 'best' position or whatever, I've learnt loads from videos like trimming, plaiting and yes how to improve my position so don't be too quick to say they are useless x

Awesome, I did all of these exercises when I was 6 or 7 and first starting to ride, but had forgotten a lot of it! Now I can help out friends who are always asking how I got my seat and I just can't explain it to them. lol! Thanks for sharing!

i never noticed how many problems i have with my back and hands when i ride but now i have fixed them and i am getting better scores when i do mini 1 day dressage events and the pony i ride seems to be a lot happier

Great video thank you. So applicable to western riding as well. This is one of the most straight forward and easy to understand videos on the seat available on youtube

The other activity which really helped my lower leg position was standing up in the stirrups. Great tutorial!

Excellent advice!

Very helpful ! One of the better training videos on riding I have come across. Thanks!

Really enjoyed the review! Lovely horses, and good review of common problems. Thanks for the video!

Very good video!! I used to have a hands problem, but after watching this video and a lot of practising, no more hands problem!!

Thank you for these wonderful tips

Fantastic, clear and concise!!

a lot of these correction exercises are right on. good video. I think you could go further explaining to people the 'damage', pain & 'rein lameness' to the horse caused by these classic position faults. thanks and compliments to the riders here who are demonstrating the problems -- that is a humble and helpful thing for other riders and may help horses too.

Gostei imenso, aprendi muita coisa. Obrigado

SO helpful, thank you!

Great tips!!! Beautiful horse

Excellent! Thank you for posting this vid.

The idea of addressing the solutions is really nice, thanks alot

Very fine. Many thanks. Dr.S.C.Bose

YES! Toes IN! If you turn your toes out, they could get caught on a rail, and you use more cummunication with the INSIDE of your leg vs the back.

It helps. I have a horse show this weekend that im nervous about because i fell off of my horse at the trot... ever since then my seat isnt the same... and im not confident about my riding anymore

I love it. Thank you.

Your horses are gorgeous!

Helpful

Love theese videos!

Your comment made my day! Haha...If you are doing all of the above, your horse wont even accept to move and you wont stay on his back for more than 5 seconds...LOL I am sure you are not, or maybe you are doing only one of them..take it easy..perfect seat takes a lot of practice.

really good tip's! you did very well in explaining! great lesson!

Great video.. Great tips.. thank you so much

This was AMAZING advice!!!!!!I do quite a bit of these but my main problem is keeping m lower leg under my hip...

really good lesson, i learn a lot.

Excellent lesson ! Thanks :-)

oh im so happy i i ound this video! i have been having problems with having my legs to the frong and thought as hard as i tried, i just cant keep them in line with my body xD i can only do that in walk but when it comes to trot or canter, my legs go forward again and i cant keep them back

👍 very nice 👍😊😊

you are most likely gripping with your knees. try gripping with your lower leg at walk without stirrups. gripping with the knee creates a pivot point for the rest of your knee. hope this helps!

helpful :)

AWE SOME !

pointing yourtoes opens your hips outwards (from behind). This allow you to settle into the horse. The point of contact with your calf should be the inside front. If you ppont your toes two far out you're hips will close off. also check your stirrup length as well. Above all you should not be forcing your heels down,that will cause tension in the body which will be picked up by the horse. You're heel should fall lower than your toe if your stiruup length is correct.

also when she went into canter from that stand still at the beginning she completely got behind her horses movement and lent backwards!

Its ok video.

haha glad it made someones day:)) and yes practice practice practice :))

you can see when the last problem is "fixed" that her lower legs is too much backwards,just as they were when that also were a problem?and when their problems is "fixed" their seat looks excactly like it looked before the excercises.

that horse is beautiful

Number 3 and 4 are my problems too

2:35 looks so silly! :p Great vid though, thanks!

2:42 - 3:10 is how to exercise on a horse but it is very helpful i wouldn't do it tho because the horse might trot away

I think the "straightness from behind" might be an allusion from the woman's shirt covering the cantle of the saddle. I had to double take on that though.

Need help pls, i just started riding and i want to know if i am suppose to turn my toes inwards. my insructor says i should and someone told me that as long as my heels are down it should be fine, i am confused :x

Part of the issue is misbehaving horses 😂 I ride the horse in my profile pic and he misbehaves a lot but I love him and I've experienced him being perfect

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Toe lowering and leaning forward "takes weight off" the saddle, preparing to drive forward again which she did splendidly. Possibly a green horse. Imagine a rider leaning back with hands up and pulling, not, pulling, not--- now CANTER with a purpose! Whoops, popped the horse in the mouth and lurched all over the place with a hollowed frame, if you got to canter within ten yards of where you asked in the first place.

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omg ikr! i thought it was just me!

please note that Grisone, Guérinière, Löyeneysen, Pluvinel, Ridinger, Newcastle, Andrade and many other old masters do NOT have a straight line from elbow to bit,intentionally, explicitly, deliberately. ('decente de main' and all that) Also note that the position of the foot is NOT the cause or the essence of the chair seat, it is the position and rotation of the upper leg bone (knee). The position of the feet have fairly little to do with it. Also note that the 'treading of the stirrup' is an important topic in classical dressage and that the seatbone on the inside of the bend is weighted more. (Routinely form about 1450 to 1870 in pretty much all occasions.) Also the leg from the knee down is considered the 'mobile leg' and the upper leg the 'immobile leg' also note that very many depictions of the old masters have the feet further forward than the vertical line, yet have the knees of the rider further back and close to the horse, yet not clamped on. some very specific combat turns show the foot straight down to tread the stirrup. also note how the lady in the video does not weight her seatbones equally in the half pass at all.. and she is quite right to do so. this rule of thumb is really quite deceptive in many ways, though much of the rest of what is said does nuance it quite nicely. but the key points of ilium and Femur alignment and rotation are simply much more important... which is the crux of the matter.

If you are having problems with sitting trot you should take the stirrups away

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0:46 the saddle is morse left

Did someone can give me a trick to stop kikking my horse with my legs when I'm doing rising trot (each time I sit I touch him with my foot ) please :)

Not inwards, point them forward. Toes should point straight forward like you see the classical rider in the video when she is facing the camera. Toes out will bang your heel against the horse and take your leg away from the horse, toes inward will poke your horse and take your lower calf away. So, forward and straight. Some people will have you exercise with toes inward to help adjust the muscle so you can ride straight, but that shouldn't be the main form of riding.

Number 3 and 4 are my problems lol.

I have a problem keeping my elbows on!

Remove the crop. What is the need for it?

solution ...take stirrups away....mess around...but mostly take stirrups away

her saddle is off to the right!

I do Classical Dressage...This is not it.

yoga on a horse

Your saddle was not strait try going left a little bit

No 4 ('correct') - rider stiff, bouncing in the saddle and not absorbing the movement :(

i think i have 7

"Instructress"?

Hang on! From the back view the rider is straight but not the saddle!

No 3 ('correct') - rider is rising too high, too straight and with a hyperextended back.

ohh,very nice horse :) if she is mare,why did u not breed her

I understand what you are saying but I did not learn it that way. So, I spell it practice and you spell it practise.. I am American and use American English so I do not need to be corrected.

Do you actually ride a horse or is trolling all you do?

i do all of the above. shit. lol

first , if you show how something is done,be sure that you demo is perfect; yours is not! Looking form te back you see that the sadle is tilted to the right. And for the rest it is all theory! I have seen great riders who are not riding as you are proposing they should, But the result were there.: Ernest van Loon, Henk van Bergen, Jan Nivelle, Klaus balkenhol, George Theodorescu, Willi Schultheis, Pedro Torres, Nuno Oliveira, AND OTHERS.....LOOK THEM UP !!

the bike thing is really weird!

Explain to me why you shift your weight forward to go backwards at 1:21, explain to me how that makes any sense at all. And you should really soften your hands a lot. If you did, you wouldn't need a second noseband because your horse keeps opening his mouth in pain and he wouldn't keep trying to avoid the bit by going behind the pol. What an expert you are...*slow clap

Actually they spelt practice correctly... "Practice"

Notice how totally not straight she is from behind - the saddle is even twisted off to one side too - note the "easier communication" via hauling on the reins, less damage to horses back showing horse swishing tail revealing his back discomfort, notice the toes not being kept in and hollow backed rider on bay. The "fixed" wobbly lower leg rider on the grey bounces in trot appallingly even though she was allegedly fixed.hands of rising trot rider still rise up and down with her.

actually you are wrong its practice:) just thought you might wanna know

Her position looks terrible stirrups are to long

Theres no time-saver or cheats to get good at riding, only time and lots of practice will do.

Oh dear :( I cannot believe that this is being advertised as either correct or classical :(

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Just put her on a lunge rein, no beginner should have hold of the reins and access to the horse's mouth.

How about you do all those exercises with no bit in the horses mouth?

Die Stirnlinie des Pferdes soll NICHT senkrecht sein! Die Nüstern müssen eine Handbreit VOR der Senkrechten stehen!!!

she needs not sit up more straighter she is slowching a tad

that horse i so cute, kinda looks like a donkey!

KEEP YOUR HANDS DOWN!!!! Gosh... people call themselves experts? Ha!

Fake doesn't work

A lot of this video, is so damn wrong.

Yuk. Get out of his mouth. Horrible rein back. don't follow these instructions, watch the horse and see how miserable he is.