I have no words for this...

[monica1979]

I'm hardly an expert on western riding, but I'd have to be blind not to see this amount of wrong. Right now, I kinda wish I could unsee it!

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[re_vised]

Uh, wow. Nice leg position!

It looks like they're trying to do reining? But it's so not reining. That poor horse...

[a_aurantia]

Published on Mar 6, 2014
Took a few clips an just put this together of my friend bob and his mare spring.. I don't want to hear any of the bullshit any of you have to say about the way he rides. Telling somebody how to ride THEIR own horse never changed a damn thing. Its his horse, his rules. That mare would do just about anything for him an he quite frankly loves her to death aswell. We were just messing around. Please save it for elsewhere.

Looks like others have commented on it and the OP had a little hissy fit and disabled comments, then put this in the description.

[ext_618772]

Oh, god. Her mouth. Her MOUTH. Poor, poor mare.

[ninjafingers]

He's too big for her apart from anything else. (I am not somebody to criticize heavy riders - I have a friend who is quite, quite overweight and an excellent horsewoman...but he could use a horse with a bit more depth of girth and barrel at his size).

But yes, he's riding with way too much contact on a leverage bit and the mare is clearly not happy about it.

[monica1979]

I thought the exact same thing, but refrained my urge to say get your fat ass of that horse you moron, because i don't wish to offend any plus sized riders. No thing wrong with being a heavy rider, as long as you have an appropriate mount.

I have to wonder, though, does this guy even know how to work with a leverage bit?

[ninjafingers]

I'm a dressage queen and *I* know you don't ride on contact in a leverage bit. (And yes I have ridden in leverage bits, I DO know a tiiiiny bit of what I'm doing with cowboy gear. Not much, but enough not to fall off or piss off the horse).