Bareback riding

TrasaM said:
Summertime? Are you considering trying it out in a bikini then :D
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Of course! What better way to enamour yourself to your fellow liveries than flashing your flab/cellulite in their faces at approximately head height? Might have to sort out the bikini line too... hmm... :eek: :eek: :eek: :D

Yes PPP, if you wouldn't mind doing the same please I will save it as well for future reference! Thanks!
 
Thanks TM, i don't go on here untill i get home :) It'd be nice to have another thread about this saddle if any of you get it, just to campare notes and see what the experiences are :)
 
I love love love it! Used to hop on my friends little welshie and made my 2012 new years resolution to ride bareback at least once a week. Throughout sept and oct I rode my tbx bareback. Hacked jumped little logs and schooled. Fantastic. Makes you feel one with your horse, it improves balance and its warm! :) thinking about investing in a bareback pad for summer now. Sticky bum or suede seat jodhs help too :)
 
I love the thought behind that saddle PPP! It looks like it'd be brilliant to ride in!

I love riding bareback, just gives you the best feeling of being able to feel all that's going on beneath you. I don't mind the 20m circles on the hogged cob, it's the coming back to trot bit that is a tad hairy (or not as the case may be!). He's pretty good at canter to walk luckily!
 
PingPongPony said:
Thanks TM, i don't go on here untill i get home :) It'd be nice to have another thread about this saddle if any of you get it, just to campare notes and see what the experiences are :)
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I'm pretty certain about it :) I'm now eyeing up my merino lambskin and am thinking it would be really comfy to sit on..wool upwards. It'll keep my bum warm should I decide to ride in the bikini mode :D
 
It really is great, not for everyone, and you do get unwanted comments, but you get that about anything and everything in the horseworld. It definitely attracts attention, even if you don't want it :rolleyes: but i love it, im happy, horse is happy, mctimoney is very happy and last time she came she said that she has never seen my horses back look so well (she's been treating this horse with her previous owner too so has known her about 6-7 years), so we're all happy, thats all that counts :)
 
TrasaM said:
I'm pretty about it :) I'm now eyeing up my merino lambskin and am thinking it would be really comfy to sit on..wool upwards. It'll keep my bum warm should I decide to ride in the bikini mode :D
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hahah! my horse becomes a fire breathing kangaroo in winter (rarely on all 4), so i have been clever this year and bought one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHIRES-FLEECE-LINED-GEL-PAD-horse-saddle-pad-NATURAL-/251150070705 and i ride in my sticky bum jodhs too :o lets just say that this works so well that the pad rises with me in rising trot or when jumping :D
 
It's been ages since I rode bareback but in the snow for some reason it seemed like a good idea. YP was surprisingly good as I haven't done it in ages apart from trying to jump out the field.

I used to do it all the time when I was younger and could regularly be found galloping a little 13.2 round the fields minus saddle :D any excuse we'd go off bareback. Used to meet a lady on (what seemed at the time) a big posh chestnut we only ever met her bareback and the pony would always stop and stare at her horse, goodness knows what she thought of us :o.
 
Bareback is fab for the seat, for developing feel which helps with absorption of the movement etc.

However it was shown on the pliance tester to be one of the worst things for pressure points on the horses back.

I like the idea of the close contact saddle but no way would I jump or do lots of RT in them, just those two points where the stirrup bars are attached with all your weight down them.
 
My horse was saddle-less for a month and a half, so I rode bareback for that time. Don't know what I was thinking, young ex racehorse who I barely knew at the time!! But he was a saint, and it improved my seat a lot! Even if it was a case of walking or cantering everywhere :p
 
I quite often ride b1 bareback in winter so she can keep her ruggy on. Love it. I can feel her work properly and work on on seat. I ride both of them to field bareback in their rugs and headcollars. First time I cantered gently to the field bareback in headcollar on b2 was amazing as he was not long off the track and can be a little unpredictable! When I yarded without turn out one winter, every morning to get them out their stack I used to ride b1 bareback in fleece down the farm track leading 3 year old then swap youngster for old dear in her matching fleece and go for half hour trot ride and lead round the village. The locals stopped staring eventually!
 
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