What are saddles, saddles of horses
Four types of saddles are most widely used in our country:
combat
Cossack
sportive
racehorse
Note that Barefoot sports saddles are unique physiological saddles that do not cause any inconvenience to the horse. You can buy a saddle for a horse and get acquainted with the entire range of physiotherapy equipment in the interent store barefoot-shop.ru Continue reading
Gaits
Gait is a method and form of movement of the horse by alternating periods of support and pushing with the feet when resting on the ground and bending and unbending them in the unsupported phase.
Allure (FR. allure gait) a method of forward movement of a horse. The natural gait (walk, trot, canter). Artificial gait (elements of the riding school: piaffe, passage) Continue reading
Driving in equestrian sports
More and more wide development in the countries of Europe and Central America gets one more classical types of equestrian sports driving.
In this form, not riding athletes compete, but teams of horses: Quad, pair and single. Driving competitions include three types, largely repeating the competition of riding triathletes. Continue reading
Spurs
Until a novice rider learns to use his legs, he is not allowed to use spurs, because they can only injure the horse, tickle it and encourage it to jump, which will throw him out of the saddle.
If the rider has learned to sit so firmly that he can control his legs, then he can be allowed to use the spurs.
Spurs are only needed when the schenkels need to be given an increased emphasis. Continue reading
Macedonians were the first to use spurs
The function of spurs was originally the opposite of the modern one. They were used as brakes, not gas. If the horse quickened its pace, the rider began to dangle on its back and hurt it with spurs.
This forced the horses to carry their riders with the utmost care.
Spurs gained a noticeable spread only after the invention of stirrups, and remained a sign of mainly heavy cavalry. Continue reading
