I hope this video helps you to improve your posting trot. Everyone, beginner through to the advanced ride can do with a "brush up" on the correct rising trot position. 😀

Hi Josie - I'm a beginner adult rider. How to do this is not too difficult to understand, but actually doing it is. I tend to put weight on my toes in the stirrups and have some difficulty staying on the correct diagonal. Many things you say here are similar to what my instructor says, and this video is super helpful. Thanks!

This is the best instructional video on the rising trot I have ever heard. Thank you!!!!!

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I’m shifting from western to English so I feel like a total newbie. Your seat, hands and posting techniques have really helped me to understand what I am supposed to be doing, now off to practice, practice, practice! Looking forward to watching all of your videos 😊

I’m in my 6th lesson of learning to ride English, & your videos have been instrumental in helping me learn, & train the horse I ride. Thank you for all the advice, & tips! My trainer was impressed out how far we’ve come in such a short time! 🌺😊

Thank u for explaining the benefits of the posting for a horse 👏

I dont know why this doesn’t have a lot of views. Really informative, thank you!

This is a wonderful video! I was told I have a chair seat.

Your instructions are great to help me understand what to focus on while I'm improving my trot. I was told I bounce too high and am not driving my seat. Can't wait to follow your instructions. Thanks!

Really really helpful. I was looking for videos to help me practice the motion at home, and this video gave me some ideas. The points about hip movement, the athletic stance, and the hand placement were all very needed.

I've been struggling with trotting and this has been the most helpful video. I still need to work on my posture but there has been improvement in class after this video.

So very helpful! Thank you ❤ you are a great coach 🌹

Wow this is so helpful. My instructor was trying to tell me how to do all these things as a beginner but I'm a visual learner and this makes so much more sense.

Your teaching was GREAT! WOW!! very nice and understood!

This was very helpful thanks so much! Great instructor ❤

This has helped me so much. Really explanatory and loads of great tips. Thank you

Great advices! Congrats!

Found this the clearest explanation yet!

this video is honestly super helpful, i've rewatched it several times especially before starting lessons so i can picture the right way on my mind until it eventually becomes muscle memory

This will be really really helpful next time I go take my horseback riding lessons again. Thank you so much for making this video!

This video is so helpful ... you are such an excellent instructor .... thank you!

I really enjoy your videos. They are so easy to follow. Particularly when you demonstrate positions & movements from standing on the ground.

Your video is the best on the rising trot! I tendto be top heavy and floppy and this helps so much. Thank you

Brilliant tips! 💕

Great video. I definitely have more of a fork seat and sometimes am like a collapsing deck chair! I am getting stronger and better though especially learning from you and my instructor. Thank you so much for your expert tuition. 🙏🌺😇

Brilliant! Thank you for youre videos :)

Thank you this is a great video to watch . I am really struggling with getting my rising trot correct .

Great video

Just learning rising trot. This video was extremely helpful. I have a better understanding what muscles I should be using and can’t wait for my next lesson. Thank you

I love your videos - thanks so much for sharing your amazing teaching/riding skills with all of us from all over!!! All the best for the season from Canada 🇨🇦🎄🇨🇦

Awesome!

This was so help have trouble relaxing my back in posting trot my canter is much better and when I trot after canter is much better 🤷‍♀️

I'm a novice and this video really helped. thx

Thanks for sharing!!! I am having a ton of trouble posting. I do both too much sitting back and being too forwards so I constantly feel out of rhythm and am thinking about trying to do too many things at once.

I love the explanation! I’ve tended to be a “heavier” rider in the sense that I’m not soft upon landing when I post. This is a great explanation and demonstration 😊

Thanks for this Josie. Great instruction, as always! I very much appreciated the tip on using the saddle pad straps. Good idea! Key for me in learning rising trot was understanding how the saddle itself helps raise you up (which you talk about). I think of it as the saddle absorbing the downward energy and boosting me back up; there is an important rhythm to it. I like the trampoline analogy, as that is the same idea. There is a momentary point at the bottom of the rise where you (very briefly) wait and let the saddle to boost you back up. I also appreciate how you explained which muscles are used with rising trot - you pivot around the knee using your core and thighs, but don't use your lower leg. A video on how to keep your lower leg still while riding would be excellent, as I find that is where I struggle. I ride a "hot" horse who has had to learn to accept my leg wrapped around him. I am now training a youngster who is the opposite! Keep up the great work. I really appreciate all of your efforts!

Back in the saddle after 7 years, and posting is frustrating when you know how to do it correctly but not all the muscles are used to it. I am getting better at least i can change direction now. But i find i am hitting the saddle on the way down with little control so it is slapping. Bles the horse i am riding he will tell you when he is irritated lol this helped and made me think i need to do more core exercises.

I like your video that's you do on horse this will help me win I ride my horse and can I ask you how do I keep my legs still win I'm ride ing my horse thank you Nannette

Hi Josie, I really appreciate your videos. It allows me to compare my recorded riding to what it is supposed to look like. A simple question, does the ear, shoulder, hip, heel alignment still apply when we are post trotting? As a matter of fact, does it apply anytime at all other than when we are at a standstill?

that was so freaking informative, I'm definitely subscribing. my instructor used to make me do drills posting without stirrups to feel just HOW much thigh muscle posting really requires. my question is -- when i'm posting WITH stirrups then, how much weight should i allow myself to put into the stirrups? also, i've watched some other videos that say not to GRIP your horse, but posting without stirrups requires me to grip so hard with my thighs, and i always thought that was proper form. what's the right amount?

I need to remember not to clench my bum when I rise… any tips? Found your channel a few days ago and love your videos ❤

Great video. I have had lessons for over a year and my trainer has not taught me the rising trot, ever.. I ride well, but went to another trainer as was made to feel as if I haven't learned anything and just cried.. I'm not giving up! I can open gates, side pass, lope canter smoothly. I go on annual cattle drives so the idea that someone would say I'm inexperienced was hurtful.. I'm 66 in good shape, good core strength but frustrated that the standing trot is so foreign to me.. Do you have any recommendations? Love your videos!

That saddle pad strap tip is genius! I'm curious though, why do you usually cut them off? I've never ridden with a saddle that didn't have the straps attached

I’m 65 and have just started riding again. Haven’t ridden a lot for over 40 years. I’m doing ok. But after two hip and one knee replacement, my weakest muscles are my inner thigh muscles, and I think this is why my rising trot is only just’ok’! Will these muscles build with only one ride a fortnight or will I need to do some muscle building exercises? My canter is fine, my position is good, some improvement needed with my reins… but as I develop my seat more I think I will improve.

Thank you missus :)

i am learner and started doing squats to improve my core to do better rising trot 😀

Great video. When rising are you arching your back or is it flat?

Raising tort it is hard but I did it and I did so good win ride my horse and I like the video it will help me Nannette

Hi I’m a beginner rider, and I was wondering in ur rising trot do you have any tips for confidence with reins as I keep grabbing my saddle without being able to control that I’m doing it I’ve fallen off 3 times! Because of this so I was wondering if you have any tips x

I like your videos that's you do win your ride ing and sand me some video that's you do win you are ride ing your horse it will help me win in ride ing my horse thank you Nannette

Hi, very new to this, are there any exercises I could do to improve my core strength?

How do you get the saddle pad to stay in place without those little loop holders for the girth?

Very useful.. When we do rising trot and when we do sitting trot?

Usually how high should we rise from the saddle. My trainer asked me to rise high almost stand up. It causes my butt a bit late when down the saddle, and make a double bounce at the saddle.

Can you do a video on how to have a more stable leg in the rising trot? my biggest problem is my legs being pushed forward as I rise. I can’t seem to get them to stay still! 😭

Sometimes when trotting if the horse suddenly lurches forward I lose balance and fall back - what is the best way to hold balance when this happens? or what is perhaps lacking in my position that causes me to fall back off blaance like this?

Thank you very much for this video! I've been watching quite a lot of these lately, but I'm still confused. If I'm not supposed to use stirrups to push myself up during rising trot, what else do I use? Knees, obviously, but that conflicts with what trainers usually say - don't grip with the knees. So, what's the compromise? Am I allow to grip with the knees only during rising trot?

Hi josie. Is it okay if I create little bit of hollow angle while rising and straight spine when I come to sit? It is very hard for me to rise with straight soine. My instructor told me you should only move your core and your spine should be in straight line whether you are rising or sitting. But, I can see even you are making hollow arc while you are rising.I m so confused😢. Can you please help me out. Cheers

My is a fox rising trot Nannette

I am at my 4th riding lesson and I'm getting discouraged with trotting. I started confident and ok and the basic, also I struggled with the exercises to built the streng for the Trott but in the end they seemed to work. The last two lessons went horribly, I couldn't Trott for more that half a circle started crying because of knee and ankle pains and had to stop. I think watching this video I might have pushed too much woth my feet and legs, getting way too high and struggling a lot, rather than rotating my hips. Also I got out of breath within seconds. I will try to think about these tips tomorrow and hope they ease a bit the work. I would like to work more on walking and the correct position but my coaches are moving pretty fast. Which I like if I succeed because it's nice to Trott but when I struggle I just really want to quit and I'm also starting to be aftaid that I will solidify in my mistakes of I don't slow down. If anyone has more experience it would be nice to hear a good word, it would help me feel less hopeless and alone. I've dreamt for 20 years to start riding and it's also a big strain on my finances I just get super upset if I don't do good or feel good while doing it.

I have troubles stirring while trotting and the horse i ride will stop very suddenly so im trying to practice

What is the position of my hands while trotting? (I’m a beginner)

😞How can i lift myself up straight and right and be relaxed with my legs and not slide off my saddle when trot a circle ⭕️ ?? I can’t understand how to do this..

Where would you balance from when you don’t have struppis

I have the most difficultly as a beginner rider not coming back down and slapping my bum on the saddle. I suppose that is more related to developing stronger muscles- but I do feel bad for the horse whenever I do it.

Fork seat here, oooi.

You didn’t mention being on the correct diagonal or is that a different video?

My trainer said, that it should actually be harder to put yourself back to the saddle, not up. But I dont know how to post trot to actually feel that way. :(

Traduzione in italiano???

Brilliant video. Thank you Josie, m a beginner and this has helped more than you know. Well done rebel for putting up with the incorrect demonstrations 🤭👏👏🩷