One of the biggest challenges of cutting and cow horse riders is to find and maintain a “deep” seat.
If you’re like many riders, try as you may, you just can’t seem to master a consistent and deep connection to your horse through your seat.
Perhaps, you don’t feel stable in the saddle when you work a cow.
Then there’s one more scenario. You do feel connected to your horse, but when you work a cow, you still hear, “Sit; Sit; SIT!!!” commands from your trainer or sideline friends. Have you ever thought, “I AM sitting! What else am I supposed to do?”
I made a video for you to explain a simple exercise sequence to develop a deeper seat, and to develop your horse’s awareness of your seat … all at the same time.
Enjoy!
Barb
6 Responses
Love your instruction, visual certainly helps. It’s a good reminder of how much your posture actually changes. Look forward to more.
I love your video on sitting deep. It allows you to focus on one exercise. When we work a cow we have so much to think about that if we make this a habit it will happen more naturally.
I love the short video on a deep seat. It allows you to focus on one exercise. When we work a cow we have so much to think about that if we can make this a habit it will happen more naturally.
Hi Barb
Enjoyed the deep seat video. As always thanks for sharing and giving us tools to practice. I tend to rise up out of there when I’m asking them to move forward and I noted you also did that. Would you let a horse move off when you rose up out of the deep seat a little to breathe or would you reprimand them-stop and back- if they moved off when you sit up to breathe-and get ready to move off. I hope I make sense here. In other words, should they always wait for direction even when the rider transitions up to a more forward or vertical seat from a deep seat? I guess that is why I liked your reminder to wait for horse to breathe before you let them move off. I always worry that I’m giving them conflicting signals when I readjust my seat from deeper to more upright and then they start to fidget or move off-signal I’m sending I guess.
Thank you so much, I really enjoy learning from you, we now, finally, have a ranch close enough that I can go work cattle on, so I’m thankful to be able to haul locally! And put your lessons to work, yay
Extremely blessed
Robyn
I think the information Is great. It definitely will help me. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and knowledge about cutting. I look forward to the next video.
Thanks again
Pam