Is jumping on a horse hard to do?

Answer 1

Well, this can be debatable.

When you first ride a horse, it can be tricky for some. You have to learn the cues to make the horse move forward (using your legs/calves & squeezing them on your horse's sides), the cue to make your horse stop (pulling back on the reins, softly!) and controlling & steering your horse (pulling right rein to go right, left to go left, etc). You must do these cues while the horse is moving, and moving at faster gaits. Later on in riding, you must worry about technical things like your position and posture - your seat, your leg, heels down, eyes up, shoulders back while riding in sync with your horse. Generally as a beginner you take things one step at a time and worry about the basic whoa and go. Correct diagonals in trotting, leads in cantering and riding your horse in frame come with time as well. It's a lot to remember, but taking lessons with a certified coach and lots of practice will drill these things into your head. It is almost like getting on a bike after a while. Everyone is different - some may catch on quickly, others won't. Remembering these aspects of riding all together takes a lot of time, practice and education.

Riding a horse entails hand-eye coordination and most of the time, thinking and reacting quickly. Some people are not cut out to ride at first, depending on their fitness level and/or level of confidence. Also, the horse you ride can make your ride easy or very hard if it is not a suitable mount. It's good to start out on a schoolmaster horse on the lunge line at first.

Answer 2

• no most people say that you will fall the first few times and movies over dramatize a first jump but i just did my first jump and it was very easy and fun! you don't reallyknow that your even jumping till you feel the horse land then you go forward a bit but you don't fall its just plain fun!

If you dont know how to ride then jumping is very hard. If you have the basics, are jumping small, and the horse knows what to do jumping is really easy. It takes a long time to get comfortable jumping the higher jumps but once you trust your horse its the best feeling in the world.

Answer 3

Commonly people who assume that horseback ridding is easy are the people who have never acctually ridden a horse before.

When a ridder is at a show their goal is to make it look flawless and easy to the audiance. But what most do not realize is that the rider is stearing the horse with a combination of their legs, seat bones, and occationally with the reighns. The riders must also keep their horse's attention as to maintain the easy flawless look.

Dosent seem so easy now does it? :)

Answer 4

It can be. It requires good balance, excellent coordination, ability to multitask, to out think the horse, and in some cases quite a bit of strength. With lessons and/or much practice, you could be able to do it in your sleep if you ride a calm, push-button horse. But if you ride a young, inexperienced, excited horse, it can get quite difficult at times, no matter your experience.

Answer 5

NOOOOOO!

have you ever trusted something with a mind of its own, a unpredictable animal? Horses have a mind of their own any second they want something they can go all out to have it, rearing bronking, bucking spinning.

Have you ever fallen 5ft on a 35mph animal?

Have you ever felt like you could die from 1 mistake? People don't understand t how dangerous it is, if you miss a stride to a jump, can be any height 1m 40cm or 70cm tall you and your horse could come down like showing this picture

Have you ever jumped something taller than yourself? Trust us when we say approaching a fence, the stride, the height, keeping it together it's hard.

Have you ever had a teammate with a 1000 pound animal that doesn't speak your language?

Horses are 10 times our size, hard to control, and have a mind of their own! And You can't tell them what to do with your voice or give them instructions you have to use every bone in your body!

Have you had teammate who refused at a fence but you still keep fighting?!

Horses have a completely different way of going, they could kill you in seconds, horses are unpredictable, you could be doing up there rufg and they could kick you, one of your mates comes round the corner they could tank for miles! They are flight animals and a lot harder than you think, a new jump, filler something bright coloured could send them bronking and bolting in a panic!

To work as a team with a animal that doesn't speak your language and to guide them round a course of fences, xc, or even racing, yes it looks easy but that's because we train for everything to look perfect, hours and hours perfecting our position from keeping our posture to keeping our heels down, Horse riding is not an easy sport in fact it is one of the most dangerous sports in the world and people can get killed by it easily it is a classified sport and takes a lot of time and money to be good at it and the horse and rider both partake in the sport if it weren't for the rider the horse would not move and if it was not for the horse there would be no riding. People need to appreciate horse riding as a sport because it is and it is one of the most hardest sports in the world the rider has to think of many things at once while keeping the horse safe.

We have both experienced being told it's easy and anyone could do it.

There is so many things you have to do heels down back straight keeping the correct tension on the reins looking forward. Keeping your legs wrapped around the horse balance and that's just the basics.

For Show jumping you have to calculate strides to jumps so you wont crash into it dressage you do just about 100 things at once

xc were one trip up could cost your life sitting on a horse and walking is easy anyone can sit on a horse but RIDING a horse needs skill, determination and bravery. Being an equestrian is hard. :)

Answer 6

No. When you first start it will feel odd, but it will get better. I have been riding for 4 years now.