Whta do you guess of western?
im not saying its cruel so dont give me some retarded answer like o you regard as its cruel its very fun stupid english i just want a touch summary of what you think its like and i used ride western but i stoped so well you try to remind me how fun it be cuz now i ride english and its all work so thank you
Uh. Well I used to jump [english of course] and i just bought a QH/Paint mare who solely rides western, [i have tryed english, and i ended up on the ground] and i love it. Its so comfortable, and plus my mare is very uneven and buckish when you start her canter, and its nice to hold onto the horn for support. Its just very comfortable, and last hours of darkness, i rode my friends horse english and i was like wow, what a difference!! =)
What makes you think that riding western isn't tough work? For people who go out and lolly gag around it's not hard work whether you're riding english OR western. It's competing that makes western and english both difficult sports. Personally I like speed events better, such as barrel race, team roping and so on. If you have rode western before you should know basically how difficult and exciting it can be. Western Pleasure on the other hand doesn't look that difficult, but you really have to notice how those horses are trained and how they move. You don't merely go jump on a western pleasure horse and expect it to do what they do at shows especially whether it doesn't have the background, but has the breeding.
Western saddles are more comfortable over a long period of time, and require less stability. The reins are also generally kept much looser when riding western.
I ride both hunt form and western show horses. I have ridden saddle seat, but never really liked it. Hunt form is fun because you can jump. In some ways I think it is easier because I can use my reins, seat and legs to preserve the horse doing what he is supposed to. It is a LOT sooner to get a hunter on the flat show ready, since he can travel at a more natural trot and canter.
I ride western more. To ride a western show horse is a LOT of work for both you and the horse. The western horse have to do a lot of the things that a dressage horse does, lateral movements, collected and standard gaits, and flying changes. He must also do turns on forehand, and hindquarters, near the turns on the hindquarters being at high speed, now attach sliding stops, and high speed rollbacks and/or the turns around barrels. The western horse is also supposed to do this on a loose rein with invisible cues. The western horse is supposed to hit and hold a certain speed, be it a faster speed, or a in moderation trained slow speed, he is supposed to hold in frame by himself. Even the advanced dressage horses I have seen use definite cues.
It takes lots and lots of riding/schooling to get a western horse even beginning show stratum, it IS a shame that some riders and trainers push a young horse to perform before it is all set, but all disciplines seem to have near excesses, such as ?rolkur? in the dressage world.
I love western! I tight, english is lots of fun too, but there's just something about the support of the saddle, and the comfy long stirrups that makes it so effortless to just get up there, gallop, and grain like you are flying. Of course, it takes a lot of practice, beside it really wish more people would get. english riders imagine it's just so easy. I'll tell you, that western posture is merely as hard to learn as english. you don't just sit in that and slop around. And as for posting...well, lets just speak I bet I'll beat any english rider in a trotting for as long as you can without your legs falling bad contest. And by the way..sitting the trot well is probably even harder than posting to learn.
Well there's work in any type of riding. In western there's a Little less of it-lol In western you hold a comfier saddle its easier balance and to run in witch is what i like to do. If your horse starts to buck and you nearly fall off you have a saddle horn to hold on to. western horses are bred to carry dirty english horses are so perfect that no one gets them dirty. With western you can hold fun and goof off there's no pattern you have to follow or directive in which you must do it. Embrace your inner cowboy! ride western !
I love western. I started learning to ride in a western saddle and it's freshly what I'm most comfortable in. Sort of my 'comfort zone' I guess you could say. I started research to ride English a couple years ago. You go from a big saddle with lots of leather to just that little bitty item and I tell you what, but it felt weird! Whenever I'd finish beside English practice, I'd go hop on a horse with a western saddle (I was on a collegiate squad where I showed both disciplines with back-to-back practices). As soon as my but hit that western saddle, I felt close to a person does that has been working really rugged all day, finally gets to nick a shower, put on their most comfy pair of PJ's, and slips into a nice warm bed. It just feel like home. And I'm not trying to suggest that western is easier than English; you still enjoy to work at it and the basics (posture, balance, etc.) are still very close to like in either discipline. Because English has much smaller saddle and more contact with the horse, your balance does need to be better than beside a western saddle. With a big saddle, it helps stabilize a person better that does not have that great of stability compared to a small saddle used in English-with poor balance you'd be more likely to drip off in English than western. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't strive for perfect balance in any case. Any mode that's my take on things, and the main thing for me is to be riding no business what kind of saddle.
I prefer english, though I have ridden western and done somewhat barrel racing and pole bending and really enjoyed it, but I feel like I wasn't actually doing anything. The horse was so very well trained (which is not a bad thing) that he knew the pattern and vitally did it himself. I felt like it wasn't really stimulating him mentally, and that he and I weren't really getting the connection that I consistency when I go cross country or something.
In eventing or jumping, where the courses are other different and in cross country where you ride in an clear field where anything can happen, I consistency like that makes a smarter more adaptable horse, and that's why I won't switch from English to Western...probably ever. Plus jump? The moment of suspension in mid-air? priceless.
Just my two cents. :)
I think western is just another discipline. I instinctively don't like riding western because I don't like the feel of the bulky saddle and find it uncomfortable. I do not think english is stupid, and I prefer it more. To me it's more comfortable and easier to ride, everything english discipline. I find it more work to stay in a western saddle than running a pace.
Well, te only generous of riding I do is Western. The place where I learned only offered Western so that's what I know. It newly feels so secure up there surrounded by that big saddle, plus, if you start to fall off, you can take hold of the horn for support. I don't compete, but theres just something about the slightly slower gait that makes me discern secure. Theres no way to describe Western riding.If you used to do it, why not start again?
I prefer riding western its more comfortable for me...There is nil wrong with riding either way, its adjectives up to the person riding the horse their preference.
Honstly I prefer it because contained by some ways it can be more work then english. for instance I am riding a half arab who has A LOT of joie de vivre. Making her go western slow is hard work. Also this may not be at all what you are chitchat about but the outfits are way better at shows! HaHa! I love the chaps and cowboy hood and all that fun stuff. Western is to me more relaxing and for me more enjoyable. Though I prefer western I can understand some prefer english and thats cool. What isn't cool is to say aloud one riding style is better!
i love western. my horse does english and western, and i compete both, but i really love it.
I like English. Some people say-so that it is a challenge, but I am always up for the challenge. People resembling what they like, I'm all with that. :)
Western; It's the Cowboy way (or the Cowgirl way), nouf said?
i dont really like western
but i love english even though it is work
but i similar to jumping so much that i wouldnt do westen because it was easy
westerns fun ive done a little bit near my friends but i ride english becuase theres no western places near me i can do stock tho i like stock coz its inbetween both =]
i think english is fun but whether u do english u should like stick to 2 things coz if u choose the whole catagory u work work work =] but later i guess if u change from western to english it seams similar to more work coz u have to be incontrol more beacuase it much easyer to fall off and posting and stuff ick >.<
I like both equally,when it comes down to it riding well is riding very well.
its fun because of adjectives the things you can do why dont you trie western again becuase everyone has something different
some horses actually like western and some of the horse know what its is supposed to do so that must mean like mad
Answers: English all the path for me and my horse! We rock at it and there's no chance we're going back to western! We do pleasure and loping isn't our thing...His run is magnificant, but his lope needs work. When I started showing and riding english, I was hooked and still am. Jumping, Dressage, Cross Country? Who doesn't that excite? My horse hates lugging the western saddle around and other moves when I hoist it on..he gets really mad...We will stay true to awesome english! It's not all work, merely awesomeness. You just sit in western, but in english you do hold to actually move, personally I like to move. And the English saddle consolation, I could fall asleep. Do what you want, I'll be in a Hunt Seat saddle...My horse and I will continue to gather our ribbons in english classes, see ya!
in my mind it is the American mode
