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Essential Horsemanship Skills: How to Handle and Ride Horses by Udemy
A clear and useable guide for beginning riders on the basics of horseback riding and horse handling
Course Highlights
- Understand how to ride a horse at a walk, trot and canter safely and effectively.
- Tack up a horse and untack a horse.
- Feel comfortable and confident around horses.
- Approach; lead and move around a horse properly.
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
4 Topics
Meet Ali and Noah
Parts of the Horse
What to wear for riding
Thinking like a horse
3 Topics
Catching a horse in a field
How to tie a quick release knot
How to groom your horse
5 Topics
What Your Horse Wears
How to tack up a horse-English
How to tack up-Western
Adjusting your Stirrups
Pre-Launch Safety Check
5 Topics
Getting on your horse
The basic riding position
Bonus: Pelvis position while riding
The natural aids
Bonus: Using your elbows effectively
3 Topics
What's a trot?
Posting a trot
Sitting a trot
2 Topics
What is a canter (or lope)?
Bonus: Exercises for controlling the canter
3 Topics
Getting Off Your Horse
Untacking Your Horse
Give your horse a treat!
Essential Horsemanship Skills: How to Handle and Ride Horses
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