Benefits of Bareback Horse Riding:
Bareback horse riding is one of the most efficient ways to develop our riders’ skills. The very origin of proficient horsemanship depends on the balance that can be achieved with riding bareback.
Without the aid of a saddle, a bareback rider is motivated to develop supreme balancing skills. It’s amazing how fast riders can learn to perfect their balance when staying mounted depends on it!
Developing a great sense of balance isn’t the only benefit to riding bareback, a beautiful channel of communication opens up as well between the rider and the horse. Without several centimeters of the saddle pad and the leather saddle between the rider and the horse, the rider will feel the horse’s every move. The horse was always been moving and sending signals to the rider, but now the rider suddenly gets much more aware of them. This channel of communication goes both ways. The horse can feel the riders’ every move as well. With such close contact between horse and rider, the rider finds himself/herself responding too and sending out more and more subtle signals. This beautifully silent communication between horse and rider becomes nearly invisible to the observer.
Horse and rider are like one. It doesn’t get any better than that!
