Anyone Here Ride?

[Et tu brute]

I was wondering if anyone here does horseriding, i've seen plenty of topics on ancient horses and the likes but none on the modern sport itself. I ride, been doing it for about 4 years on and off (my right arm aches as I type this after a fall yesterday :lol: Think donkey jump over a 3 foot high fence )but now, but i'm back into properly. So any riders out there?!?!?!

[Dan Diffendale]

I was taught to ride last November when I was shepherding in Italy, so I could take the sheep out to pasture conveniently, but I haven't been on horseback since. There's really nothing like crossing an Italian mountain meadow at full gallop by the light of a full moon...

[Johnny Shumate]

I once rode during my American Civil War reenactment days. I had a Tennessee Walking horse. A Bay and beautiful..! Been out of reenacting for years and so I sold my horse....
Johnny

[Tiberius Claudius Vindex]

I learned how to when I was young, but I've gotten away from it. I'd like to get back into it, its kind of part of my heritage as I'm descended from Cossacks on both my grandfather's sides.

[Peroni]

I ride when I can, but always on borrowed nags!

My first wife was a competing showjumper, so I got to ride horses a lot back then.

[Medusa Gladiatrix]

I know a little how to ride but never did it regularly. In 2000 I went on a horseback riding tour to Iceland and had no problems. The Icelandic horses are such wonderful horses and they are quite easy to ride. They have a special gait - the tölt.

I came to my limits though this year in Morocco where they only had fiery stallions which of course couldn't stand each other. I very much prefered the Icelandic horses which are always kept in a herd so they are used to other horses.

I would like to ride with a Roman saddle one day. Has anyone of you guys done that yet?

[Et tu brute]

Never ridden on a Roman Saddle myself but it looks like great fun the two trips you mentioned sound like great fun, can you tell me more about the tolt?

[Peroni]

I've ridden a few times on the Roman saddle. It's very good! great control and very comfortable.

The canter can be a little 'jarring' to the nether regions, :? but you soon get used to using the knees differently. At a gallop, obviously the platform levels out and becomes more comfortable.

[Medusa Gladiatrix]

can you tell me more about the tolt?

The tölt is a gait typical to the Icelandic horse, hard to describe. But check out this website, there are animations of all five gaits.

http://eidfaxi.is/fraedsla/eindex.php?f ... ngtegundir

[Et tu brute]

Thanks, thats a strange gait, like a very prancy trot.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

I used to ride, when I was younger! mostly farms back home, Bareback riding as well as the western saddle! And started taking lessons on the European style saddle in Scotland when we first came here, but found it too repressive! Silly me.....

Also spent time learning to ride on some of the Sultan of Bruni's former polo ponies in Borneo, many years ago! Poor creatures!

[Caius Fabius]

I started riding bareback and western (when I worked as a cow nurse).
I have also ridden bulls, camels and elephants, but horses are my first choice.