Grazie mille. Per me questa è la migliore e più completa spiegazione che ho ascoltato finora. Utilissima!

What a great explanation! You are a great teacher and trainer! I often wondered how to master the sitting trot. Thank you Joseph and Jess behind the camera!

My trainer used to say that as a rider, in sitting trot, you have to trot too.

He is so beautiful 😍😍 and his movement is so smooth. Perfect.

Honestly.. clearest, simplest explanation I’ve heard on how to sit the trot. I see the energy flowing out your heels. I’ll give it a go!

Ask most riders "how many years did it take you to get good at the sitting trot?" They'll say " I'm still working on it! Lol"

I had to come back to this , as I practiced my sit trot, andthe heels analogy really helped!

Hi Jess. Please, pretty please a tutorial on how you do your plaits like in this video. 🙂

It’s funny because on some horses u r like yes I’ve got this and than on a different horse it’s like holy crap we’re is my ibuprofen 🥵

Heel out and down! OMG brilliant! Thank you

As usual fantastic explanation. Great job Joseph and Jess behind the camera.

I was raised on a Tennessee walking horse. Rode bareback. We would just glide along. Horrible trot, no canter. Ugh loved her though.

Ahh...so the legs are the exist point for the bounce! Wow!! 😮

Fantastic explanation

Very Well explained. thankyou .

„Centered Riding“ 1 and 2 by Sally Swift - it’s always worth reading.

Awesome description and lesson to not slam down on the horses spine! It's also different on different horses, they each have their own "rhythm" that the rider has to get synced with. Some are a lot easier to get synced with than others. Where did this no stirrups November come from? It's pretty cool.

Agree 100%! You described this perfectly! Thank you 😊

All right Sir....I like your descriptions of how to WORK at sitting the trot, I'll try it this Sunday. Cheers.

Ugh... been working hard on that lower leg off thing! Hard habit to break but getting there! Realized too that my glute muscles were weak so made it hard to hold my leg "off" ! But once you feel it, so much easier! Great video! Thanks! 🙃👏👏🦄 oh and that pony is very handsome!

Wow! I needed this thank you! We all struggle together in no stirrup November XDD

Great video! I always imagine my inner thigh as a giant rubber band that I can adjust the tension on to absorb the horse's energy. I think you can feel it better bareback b/c you can feel the horse's back muscles too. Small doses though if you want to be able to walk the next day lol!

Really great explanation & it is hard to convey...in words. 👍 Agree, you can not be totally passive or you would eventually bounce off. Also, you have to let your hips move easily with your horse's gait. Great video & beautiful braids Jess!

Thanks for showing and explaining what is active and passive leg!

Very good clarification

Really well explained and I found it really helpful. Thank you.

Great lesson! 💕

Very useful I will try that in November.

Very graceful

*drool* This boy is so lovely.. what beautiful gaits

Another way to visualize your seat is this, in order to not bounce on your horses spine (not pleasant for your horse) so picture this: keep your seat relaxed, like mashed potatoes - NOT like a sack of whole potatoes. With mashed potatoes - no daylight from your seat to your saddle or from your seat to your horse's spine, if bareback. Much smoother & your horse will really appreciate that! 🐴💞

Thank you for this video. Going to try!

Will work on this today. Thanks!

Thanks really enjoyed your explanation

I've been trying to perfect sitting trot for fifteen years and still haven't mastered it ! I can do it easily on my Friesian mare because even though she has an energetic, high stepping trot she is so smooth but my Welsh section d I cannot sit his trot because it's so bouncy even though he is a pretty ploddy dude 😂

When did "no stirrups November" become a thing? Maybe I'm just way too old as it was never a thing when I was a young rider.. I think the biggest mistake people make for sitting trot is to think entirely "absorb" which just makes you a sack of potatoes. This makes it difficult for the horse to carry you and makes you ineffective as a rider. The sitting trot really requires a much more active participation by the rider. I'm not sure I'd describe the rider activity as dispersing the energy but more as synchronization so that you can use your passive and active body in time and in sync with the horse's movement. An engineering description would be trying to minimize the impedance mismatch between the horse and your body- i.e., you are trying to allow the horse's energy to be transferred to your body (and vice versa) without interruption (which is what causes the bounce and impact). The choice of these descriptive terms ("synchronization", "matching impedance" ) is IMO also very important psychologically for the rider as they all tend to reflect aspects of "connection" with the horse.

Excellent explanation, thank you

Well done👍

I don't know why but I have always found the sitting trot easier than posting. my coach is always yelling at me to post 😂 the thing I struggle with the most is going from canter back to trot either bareback or without stirrups. I usually just go back to walk instead

I had a better active leg without stirrups then with stirrups.

The ONLY way I could sit trot in the beginning was with no stirrups, I had to do ankle circles to keep from gripping, and it really helped me learn how to disperse the momentum via my ankles, it was the only way I could sit trot for a while, haha!

Can you show us how to do no stirrups with posting trot and in a half seat canter ?

Nice horse. Smooth gait. What do you do with your hands. Elbows in and down..?

"All my young ones?.......I don't know...." Changes topic a little. :) Well said. :) I am also not going to ride my three year old stallion without stirrups.

The way it was described to me to think about was like a hand and a basketball. Just wait. When you bounce a basketball, what happens to the energy and momentum of the basketball " bounce " if you just stick your hand and hold it there for the basketball to run into? The energy and momentum stop. So will your horse's trot. Now, you put your hand out, and as the ball approaches your hand, your hand follows the ball up to the apex. So should your seat until the ball reaches the top of its ascent, and then at that point, you follow the descent. Upon the point when you feel the activity of the horse ( or the ball ) begins to slow, your hand pushes down on the ball and the ball remains active and bounces back up. The same thing should happen with your seat. You push down and forward, since the horse is moving and carrying you forward , with an active seat and this increases your horses activity. If you don't follow the horse's motion, it's like the fixed hand and the basketball. Your bouncing and slamming the horse's back, kills the momentum and energy of the horse. And, as Joseph explained, you still need to keep an active leg and not pinch with your knee. For someone like me, who can't walk and chew gum at the same time, working all these parts simultaneously was very hard. And yes, I not only had No Stirrups November, but also Stirrupless Saturdays and Sundays too for years and years! I hope this makes sense to you all.

360p again :( Sorry but I don't know if you know this is such low res. Is something set wrong on the new camera? It was 1080p60 with "You have to see this canter. He is 3". Hoping you'll realize soon. :)

What age do you feel its OK that the horses bCk is strong enough to do sitting trot? Nice style you have there, also do you ever do the raising trot without the stirrups?

I believe most of the movement is front to back so you disperse or absorb the movement through your mid-section, not your leg. When you brave your legs your bottom half moves with the horse. But hey, what do I know..

Is that Finch?

You need a hired hand,I’ll work for free and I’ll get my own lodging,just want ride and learn,would love to be part of EDI

So incorrect