The Best Way to Dismount a Horse
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- čas přidán 15. 11. 2018
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Pretty sure most people are here to learn how to dismount a horse, then there’s me who’s watching to learn how to animate a person dismounting a horse. :'D
I just started horseback riding lessons and I've found that dismounting is really hard! Only two lessons so far but I've had a tough time with it so far. I will definitely bring these techniques up to my instructor and see if they work for me. Thank you for making this video! Your horse is beautiful!
So glad to see this demonstrated - I learned 55 years ago in the UK - everybody dismounted this way. This was Pony Club and British Horse Society traditional training.
Nobody ever left their feet in stirrups - it would be considered dangerous when dismounting in case the horse moved or shied and then you could be caught tangled in the stirrup.
Now my knees do stiffen up when I ride for some time, so before dismounting I swing my lower legs around and loosen up my knees. This is very helpful when I am on a larger horse, that is for sure. Then I use the second example and come down a little more slowly !! HA...LOL...
great video. I just wanted to share that as a senior rider I usually dismount on a block when riding my old boy. He lines himself up nicely to assist me in getting on and off..lol. When riding a green Haflinger that I have been working with I've been using method 2 but on our return from our last trail ride as I was leaning forward he suddenly dropped his head to the ground just as I was leaning forward and was swinging my right leg over. I slid down over his neck to the ground. In his defense he did try to lift me back up but the momentum had begun. I wasn't hurt and he stood nicely while I picked myself back up but I just wanted to reiterate the importance of shortening and holding your reins while dismounting.
Thanks for the film! The two times I sat a horse the dismounting was really awkward, now I can try to practise. Thanks!
What a great video, i always wondered how to get down. i normally do the second method mixed with the foot left in the stirrup finsh. Thankfully I'm flexible enough but the tallest horse I've ridden was only 16.2. This is a great tip.
This helped me very much. Before, I’d take one foot out of the stirrup and leave it until my other foot hit the ground. I would like to use the first method, as it looks very comfortable for both you and the horse. Thank you so much! ❤️
My horse is a 17.3 Dutch Warmblood. I'm 55 and 67 years old. I've taught him to "parallel park" in front of a wooden mounting box (with no steps). I then easily dismount. I can drop off with your first method but at a show once I did that with some relatively new boots and couldn't bend my legs to absorb the impact and fell over on my butt. It's a pretty big drop!
Mary Ann Wettstein-Stoothoff Me too, I've come back to riding after many years and although I'm loving the riding I'm finding dismounting really difficult and have also fallen on my btm twice, this video is really helpful though so I will continue trying. Good luck to anyone who is in the same position as me.
Omgoodness I did this last night. I couldn't figure it out but I was wearing new boots!!!!!
And super tight pants, 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
Ur 55 and 67 years old how is that possible?
@@patricia102588 I think she means 5'5" and 67 years old 🙂
I think it's good to mount and dismount a horse on the opposite side once in a while so that you don't only pressure one side of the horse :) But maybe only if you know the horse and feel safe to do it !
it is also good for creating a balanced horse :)
Horses likes routine, so it is actually good for the horses mental health, to teach it that you can mount and dismount from either side.
It helps them understand that even though things change, it doesn't mean danger.
Everything you do from one side, needs to be repeated on the other side, because of their vision and the way they process information.
If you dismount as she has demonstrated there is NO PRESSURE ON ANY SIDE OF THE HORSE .......oh and yes totally agree on mount/dismount on both sides...
This was really helpful! I have always slide down and hit the stirrup and it is really uncomfortable 😂 I will try this next time I ride ❤
That’s what I keep doing currently have huge bruise on stomach from stirrup
It is, but I am way to scared to jump 😬
@@daisy_71522 No jump, landing on both feet at the same time. You'll get used to doing it. Greetings from the UK.
I can relate Robbie Tra 😂
Excellent help
Very helpful ! Thanks a lot♡
It is an excellent idea to evoque this subject. I have been a rider since my early years and mounting and dismounting was a reflex : no thought about this... But for various reasons, I stopped riding for 15 years. When restarting riding, I was very surprised to see these reflexes were lost ! They are gradually coming back, easier with my flat dressage saddle, more difficult with my hollow seat saddle, which, nevertheless, is more secure to ride my loved little kidder. Thanks for the analisys.
Hi Callie!! This is my goal!! I currently do a dismount to the ground over the crest with support sliding down. Tiny is 15.3 and I am 5' so it is a long way down!
I have jumped down after swinging my leg over the crest of a shorter horse. Needing to put my brave on and develop strength and flexibility to swing my leg back over the croup and jump down. I do swing my leg over the croup to mount.
We really haven't revisited the dismount since shortly after I started riding after my hip replacement.
I’ve been riding for three years and I wanted to ride my horse really fancy so I forgot all the basic stuff especially dismounting when I was dismantling the first way I was sitting up straight so just want to say thanks for the help
Great instruction. Can you tell me where you got your saddle pad? Thank you!
The one time i really slid down the saddle the safety hook on the stirrup split my pants down the front - great video!
I have done that!
This helped a lot! I have a bit of an odd problem of I’ve always jumped off on the right (the wrong side) and I’m now trying to build muscle memory to do the left side but it’s so hard!!! This really helped break it down for me, and thank you for being so calm and relaxed about explaining it!
Its a good skill to hve tbh loads of ppl struggle dismounting on the opposite side
The horse is like: oh I'm on camera.. stay cool ahah
Thanks for the help! I have trouble getting my left leg around the horse. Before I had stairs or fences to help me but now I am starting to dismount a horse without them. Next riding lesson I am going to ask my coach if I can learn how to mount a horse without stairs and to learn to canter! I will update this comment when I get to my lesson wish me luck!
Your horse is so cute!
I kinda struggle with the 1st one so I think i might try the second one! Thank you
yeah same!
I'm quite short I'm 5ft and instructor tells me to keep one foot in the stirrup swing over and then jump out of it if that makes sense. I want to get better but being small is terrifying when getting off lol. So basically the second technique lol
This is always a challenge for me. My DWB is 17.3 and very wide. I'm a senior rider just recovered from back surgery. So I've taught my big boy to parallel park at the mounting block. I know this is dangerous.
Would love a tip for dismounting given my situation.
Hello, great vid, very clear and useful. I learned to ride in Argentina, so I am used to get off the 1st way. But I am watching a really good tv series (Ertrugul Redemption, on Netflix) about pre-ottoman time and riders and most of them get off the horse swinging their right leg over the cross/neck (ie, at the front)... so my question is: does anyone know if there are these regional 'fashion' or why would ancient turkish nomads do it? The sword/bow/shield had nothing to do... 🤔
I like sliding down, and have never thought about doing this. Usually because after a ride, my legs hurt, so if I jumped down like that I fall in one way or another, or it hurts.
So I take both feet out, then lean forward, twist my body and keep my balance over the horse while I swing my foot over, before I slide down the horses shoulder. Slowly. And I have never met a horse that found it uncomfortable, because they actually stay very still when I do it that way. Even horses that are ridden for the first time.
Maybe because I am doing it slowly, and are relaxed, so they don't feel threatened by it.
I don't know, but it feels like the horses thinks it is ok, and I don't get hurt like I did, when I used to jump down.
And I have never been tangled in the saddle from doing it, but then I slide in front of the saddle, not down the side of it.
I can't remember learning this when I took riding classes. :-)
Thank you! I'm a new rider, and my sister is trying to teach me, but its scared without a demonstration! This is a very good video.
you are the best im going to do that on my horse buster know
My first lessons riding today and dismounting was my hardest task😂😂i can do it💪
GOOD ADvice hard my horse is a 18 hand t/b Clydesdale ???
Great guide - I am coming back into riding. I have early osteo-arthritis in my knees. While strengthening the knee box and everything else, dismount is painful. Any exercise suggestions'
I use mounting block to get off right now it's hard for me I'm recovering from hip replacement I'm 33
O to have the knees I had 50 years ago. Starting to try to ride after several years off, Want to feel comfortable dismounting for my horses benefit too.
Omg my trainer is soo mad at me when i dismount,bc I dismount the 2nd way. But finally someone who said that the 2nd is the right way too.
I do the second when I ride western and the first when riding English :)
Any tips for dismounting when I have a healing shoulder injury.. almost healed but doesn't like the jarring I get when dismounting the first way.. is there a safer way to dismount until it heals.. perhaps the mounting block. Or moving my elbow with my body or would this twist the horse..thanks
Because of leg injuries, dismount can be hard so can mounting so to get off, I try to have the left side on an up hill, giving me less far to go to the ground. My horse knows when I go to those spots, I'm dismounting. To mount, I taught her to stand near a mounting block, but I want to be able to get on from the ground again, so hoping to strengthen the injured leg. the way I learned to dismount is like method one in the video, Now, I really should use method two, but I'm too nervous of getting caught up in the stirrup on the way down.
I had my first lesson this week and almost twisted my ankle when dismounting cuz im a dumbass and landed weirdly on my leg😂
Oof
1:55 Who else kind of realised that the horse was struggling to balance with so much weight on one side? Not saying your bad owners, but the horse seems healthy!
I usually slide down over horse's neck bugging him till touch the ground. The first way you said, I hold the flap by left hand to have support and not falling back!
Probably similar to what I do, sliding down the shoulder of the horse. All the horses I have done this on, stands perfectly still and seems to enjoy it.
I had my 1st lesson yesterday and I dismounted on the ground for the 1st time. Usually I use a mounting block and almost everytime I nearly fall off the mounting block 😂😂 but today I did it on the ground and I stayed balanced and nice 😂 and I was riding for the same amount of time ⏲️
Dismounting onto a mounting block is pretty tricky haha. It's tough to get the horse properly lined up, often the horse moves. I'd hate to end up falling between the mounting block and the horse, or have one foot land on the ground and the other on the mounting block and you end up doing the splits.
@@sketchalater4656 lol I dismount on the ground every time now
I can do the first method no problem, except for one thing- I ALWAYS get my right let hung on the back of the saddle! It is a higher backed dressage type saddle, but I still feel like I should be able to swing my leg clear... Other than that, I've got it.
Any tips?
Thank you!
REally lean forward over your horse and it should bring your leg up higher.
I dont know who taught this to me- but is my favorite part of riding.
Feel light and airy as I pop off my 16.2H horse - and i am almost 69yo.
I feel like a damn idiota cuz I've ridden quite a few times but just now I have signed up for riding lessons and I realized that when getting off the horse, the hung up leg would happen 😩 and I was like there must be something I'm doing wrong lol there's no way this is like this😂 so thanks!
As a guy, I find that I have to almost push myself out of the saddle and swing over so I don't lean to far forward on myself! I usually dismount the first way with no stirrups!
I tried sliding both feet out of the stirrups and then swinging my leg over the saddle. Outcome was not very graceful and fell to the ground straining my groin area. Never doing that again! (took a week to recover). From now on will always use the left stirrup to assist in balancing and prevent slipping uncontrolled unto the ground. Dismount error at completion of my fourth lesson. - Larry
The first way to descend was more appropriate and safer, because if the horse made a move during the descent of the rider, the rider's leg would get stuck to the stirrups and fall to the ground, so it is better to remove the stirrups before disembarking from both legs.
I find it so hard to dismount without sliding off! Im a beginner and 5 feet tall. My lesson horse is almost 17 hands! Im afraid ill roll an ankle if I hop down.
I'm in the UK. Beware of dismounting with one foot still in the stirrup if you are not in an enclosed area. Many years ago when I was still a novice I did that and as I was about to dismount the horse bolted and I got dragged on my back with one foot caught in the stirrup. If it wasn't for the quick thinking of another rider, at best I could have broken my ankle, at worst broken my back!
Aw shit, I always slide down o3o
Great.. i’m doing it the 2cd way but as i have an HitAir (im 56 ,my horse 1,75) if i don’t push enough on my arms then i receive the Hit Air bomb in the nose... 🥴😜😄
So I had my very first English lesson- I’m a western rider and have been about 6 years, and in my lesson I nearly fell on my back because my dumbass didn’t take out my foot. 👁👄👁 I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life
my instrucotr forgot to tell me to unhook my left boot from the strap and i fell on my face because my boot got caught- so thank you so much because my body still hurts from the fall lol
What strap??
Sorry! I mean hugging the horse's neck.
i hope i dont fall off and land on my bum while dismounting after watching this..
Why do you (atleast not in your videos) put your horse to the bit. Its better for their back. It helps them to support the weight of the person on their back better
I dismounted like usual only to have my foot stomped on by my horse. 0/10 do not recommend