I am a 64 yr old woman learning to ride for the first time . The trot has been challenging for me and I can’t tell you how grateful I am for your expertise and suggestions . Just when I’m getting a bit frustrated , you remind me I can do this . THANK YOU ❤️

I am in my early 60's, have ridden for 50 yrs, now retiring as professional instructor/trainer for 35 yrs. I LOVE your videos!! You are a delight. You are spot on with your exercises... I truly enjoy your assessments and instruction. Thank you for sharing your excellent skill and sweet personality. 🐎

my mother has an older Welsh cob, I've always been super comfortable riding him in a sitting trot, he just feels like a big a big sofa. my lease horse is a lot taller and has way longer legs (he's a dutch warmblood)and i absolutley cannot sit his trot (its also my first time riding in an english saddle, but i dont think that changes a lot)so i usually post in his trot however I'm still not super comfortable with it. this video really helped improve my sitting trot on him :]

Did you install a camera in the yard I'm riding in? Lately you seem to always be putting out videos exactly about what I'm trying to learn at the moment. Thank you so much, fantastic material, you've helped me a lot so far!

Love the pointing toe idea ! New one after 60 years of riding/lessons/etc Always good to watch your vids!

This makes so much sense. I'm just trying to get my sitting trot right before I move to canter, and I was quite stunned when my coach told me to tilt my pelvis forward all the time, but it felt so uncomfortable. When we took the stirrups off, it made so much sense afterwards, as to how my body had to be when trotting. Thank you thank you thank you!

Thank you so much, I make these mistakes and this has helped.

I am a 71 year old rider and love your tips. They visualy complement what i am learning with my 2 instructors. They also have approuved your utubs

I could have used this video yesterday. I tried sitting the trot without stirrups and the horse broke into a canter and wouldn’t stop (I’ve never cantered before 😳). I managed to stay on and eventually jumped off. I will keep in mind to point my toes so this doesn’t happen again! Thank you for the great tips 🙏

Very helpful, thanks. Interesting to see how much more relaxed your mare is when you demonstrate the correct way to ride the seated trot. Her neck stretches down, and her gait changes. 🌺🌸🌺

Great ideas on sitting trot! I’ve been really stiff and really was never taught the mechanics! Thanks so very much!

Great descriptions

You are so incredibly talented

Great tips, thank you! 😊 Greetings from Hungary.

Very good advices as usually my dear Callie ! Thank you very much. I see it again, again...

Thank you for posting this! It has been very helpful to me! I don’t have funds to pay for a instructor but I do have access to a horse that I can ride at my barn that I work for. -Cynthia

I'd never heard of a exercise using pointing toes down. That's interesting. I guess it's so against the usual advice and some people would go too far with the idea, so it's not common. ..... I just googled about toes down and horse vaulting, apparently they ride with toes down. I don't know that any other discipline does that on purpose. Interesting.

excellent

Do you "jump" from the stirrups or thighs? How much weight do you put on the stirrups? 70%, less? 🙏💛

Should have known, no stirrups! That was the ONLY way I could get the feel for sitting trot, I had to rotate my ankles to distract my legs from gripping!

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I need HELP!! My trainer says I need to hold the reins by holding it with my pinky’s and putting my other fingers on top of the reins. The reins I use are thick so it really hurts my hands. Which makes it so I can’t even steer the horse correctly. Any tips? Im sick of making absolutely NO progress because of this problem.