My riding teacher always told me to line up your head, your hips, and your heels! Your legs should be directly underneath you!
Do you mean "what position should your feet be in when riding a horse?" If so then this is the answer: you should have your heels down and knees bent with your feet right beside the girth.
Yes, your feet should be able to touch the ground when riding a bike for stability and safety.
Yes, your feet should be able to touch the ground when riding a bike for stability and safety.
English styles of riding predate western riding. As a result, English riding is practiced all over the world, but western riding is almost exclusive to the US and N. America.
Western Riding terms for Canter is "lope"!
All riding boots, western or English, should have heels, so your feet can stay in the stirrups while riding. It is a safety precaution that helps prevent your foot from slipping all the way through the stirrup, getting you all hung up in the stirrup, which can result in you getting dragged should you fall off and your horse starts running.
Western horseback riding is a specific discipline within equestrian sports. The style is characterized by a large, wide saddle with a moderately prominent cantle and a horn; the stirrups are set lower as compared to English riding styles. The horse's gait should be slow and smooth - there is no posting at the trot in Western riding, and the canter is slower and called a lope.
western horse riding is done the way cowboys ride
There is western riding (gaming, western pleasure) and English riding (dressage, jumpers, hunter jumper, Polo, and English pleasure).
Reins used in western riding
Western Riding, proven results; Welsh ponies achieve higher skills in their western training and tack.
Keyhole, barrel racing, pole bending, reining, western riding, trail classes, halter, showmanship halter, western pleasure, cutting, working cow horse, ranch horse, team penning, western equitation, calf roping, bronc riding, bareback riding, and steer wrestling.