Lydiamae
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Can someone please explain to me in very, very simple terms, how to bridge reins? Thank you
How to bridge reins?
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dominobrown
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It would be easier to show ypu, but you basically you would hold the left rein in the right hsnd and vice versa and still hold them with your left hand bridging them over the neck so you have both reins in each hand. Probably a better way of describing it but i have just got back from the pub!!!
Sugar_and_Spice
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Sit in the saddle and take your reins as normal, before turning your hands into "trolley pusher" hands and bringing them close together, which forms a loop in the reins at the buckle end. So you've got the rein attached to the bit, a circle of leather at your end, then the rein attached to the bit again. You don't unfasten anything to do this. Make the loop as big as necessary by shortening your reins in the normal way ie moving your hands closer to the bit.
Take hold of the looped reins with your "trolley pusher" hands by opening the fingers one hand at a time to gather up the extra bit of leather. Move your hands further apart to the "sides" of the loop. You'll now have two bits of leather in each hand, in the middle there will be a cross over of leather and another bit with the buckle on.
Turn your hands into the right way up for normal riding position ie thumbs towards the sky and that's it.
Get a snaffle and reins, hook the snaffle over your stair bannister post and practice. It's easy. You should be able to bridge the reins whilst the horse is cantering along if you need to.
Take hold of the looped reins with your "trolley pusher" hands by opening the fingers one hand at a time to gather up the extra bit of leather. Move your hands further apart to the "sides" of the loop. You'll now have two bits of leather in each hand, in the middle there will be a cross over of leather and another bit with the buckle on.
Turn your hands into the right way up for normal riding position ie thumbs towards the sky and that's it.
Get a snaffle and reins, hook the snaffle over your stair bannister post and practice. It's easy. You should be able to bridge the reins whilst the horse is cantering along if you need to.
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