Basic knowledge of riding a horse

Riding a horse is not like driving a car. You stop when you brake. It can feel that you can't ride. It knows that you can't ride, will bully you and be disobedient. It deliberately opposes you. You let him go, deliberately lowered your head to eat, and pulled him up. Some of the reasons are because horses are naughty, and some are because horses have a bad temper. I can't help it. You need your confidence and belief in controlling it to infect it. You must make him obey you and listen to you. At this time, he is not a pet, and he is an animal if he says something unpleasant. Of course, some skills are also needed. This skill is different for everyone and every horse. Generally speaking, it includes the use of reins, whips, feet, legs, hips, etc. Or a combination of these actions.

First, let the horse go. It will be useful to send it there. Legs on the horse, legs rubbing on the horse's stomach, pull the reins aside and shake them with a whip. If you don't go, you have to dismount and pull by hand. Maybe Ma Tou and his wife quarreled last night. Everyone sends different messages to the horse, and the horse agrees with everyone differently. Generally speaking, people have different feelings for horses. Experts call it a sense of horse, just like music is a sense of music, swimming is a sense of water, and playing ball is a sense of ball. Of course, some people feel good, while others feel bad. The wild flowers I know have a good sense of horses. The horse she rode was called Happy, and others began to deviate. She needed to pull it aside with a reins, so she rode. When the horse received the message, she ran according to her wishes without pulling the reins. Brother Bang is also very horse-like, and specializes in riding fierce horses. This is not something that only courage and strength can do. You should have the feeling of communicating with horses. If you really don't feel anything, you get scared as soon as you get on the horse, you can never overcome your fear and never find your feelings, then you'd better not engage in this sport, because everyone knows that feelings are sometimes born.

Talking about riding a horse. Riding a horse to fly is not riding a horse, only a fool can. If you put a fool on a horse, you can run as long as you don't fall. Is this riding a horse? So don't think you can ride a horse, even if you can gallop. What is riding a horse? Beginners have the experience of turning the horse's internal organs upside down. There is a special action that can't be done. This is called walking, and herders call it a small shop. It means to support the horse with rhythm. If the horse is fast, you will follow, and if it is slow, you will be slow. If you had known this move, you wouldn't have been knocked over by the horse. It is also beautiful and stable. It seems that you can ride, that is, from letting him control you to losing control, and then you can control the speed range, that is, control. So in general, you can ride a horse. Even if you can ride a horse, it is the most elementary requirement, just like everyone who comes out of a driving school can drive, but it is not good to drive without an accident. You have to hone it slowly in the future. Some people master it quickly, while others master it slowly.

The psychological unity of horse and human should be said to be the highest state of riding. Even a first-class master can only achieve psychological unity with horses within a certain period of time or under certain circumstances. "Unity" at this time means that both sides have the same psychological desire, and then they cooperate. "

The so-called process of learning a horse is that the rider never knows how to use his center of gravity to match the center of gravity of the horse, but is familiar with the changing law of the center of gravity of the horse and can skillfully cooperate. Learning to ride a horse also includes mastering communication language and using auxiliary carriers to transmit instruction information to horses. On the other hand, the horse may also actively cooperate after sensing the change of the rider's body center of gravity and psychological thoughts. In a word, horses are not machines, and only when horses ride together to a certain extent can there be an interactive relationship.

For modern people, the disadvantage of learning riding is that there are much fewer opportunities to practice than their predecessors. Because of this, we should make full use of the knowledge advantage formed by the development of science and technology to find out the path of information transmission between horses and people in theory, so as to master riding and be good at riding. We can divide the degree of cooperation between horses and people into several stages, so that you can understand and test your level. Here, the horse is regarded as a well-trained and skilled rider.

The rider's driving level is at an unknown stage.

At this time, people show that their movements can't keep pace with the change of the center of gravity of the horse, and at the same time, because they don't know the language of help, the rider can't pass his instructions to the horse. On the other hand, on the horse side, after perceiving the error of the center of gravity and helping the error, it is judged that the rider can't ride a horse, thus adopting a disobedient attitude. For example, tourist attractions and equestrian clubs that receive individual riders may receive complaints from first-time riders that their horses are disobedient or don't walk at all. Of course, the main problem at this time is not the horse, because 99% of the horses will obey the ride when testing the rider in charge of the horse. From a psychological point of view, Ma seems to be a receptionist at this time. When he finds that he can't understand the meaning of the guests, then the best way may be to stay where he is. Of course, some horses will run around when they find that the rider has no control authority, but this makes it difficult for them to survive in the horse collection group for too long.

The rider's driving level is in the primary stage.

At this time, people have mastered the method of coordinating the horse's center of gravity, that is, in the simple running of the horse, they can keep their balance and not fall off the horse. Because they have learned the general help language, they can give simple instructions to the horse and let the horse understand the meaning of these instructions, and make cooperative actions such as walking, running, stopping and turning.

By analyzing the problems raised by a large number of junior riders, we can see that their main problem is the use of auxiliary language, because they usually think that horses are not easy to use and obedient enough, that is to say, although they move down under their control, it feels laborious to control them, far from being handy. Many of these riders don't realize that their information for help is ambiguous, contradictory or lack of continuity, which is the fundamental reason for the poor performance of horses. For example, junior riders often make the mistake that their left hand is tightening the reins and giving the horse an order to turn left. However, at the same time, his or her leg and foot support or body gravity is sending a right turn command to the horse. Although the former is a conscious signal with obvious external manifestations, while the latter may be an unconscious signal that looks less obvious, it is an instruction with the same effect for the receiver-Malays. Whether to turn left or right at this time is really a problem that puzzles the horse, and it is this confusion that leads to the poor performance of the horse. In addition to the ambiguity and contradiction of the above explanation, we must also pay attention to the continuity of the explanation. A fast-moving horse must constantly receive instructions in order to understand what the rider wants to do next. If the time interval from one instruction to the next is too long, the horse will feel waiting for the instruction and will unconsciously slow down the horse's movement. In order to prove and express this point, I did the following experiment by hiring a taxi: when I got in a taxi, I simply told the driver to go in a certain direction, but didn't tell me where to go. In many experiments, all the cars were driving very fast at first, but after a while (maybe a few minutes, maybe more than ten minutes), the drivers became hesitant, or glanced out of the corner of their eyes from time to time, or hesitated, not knowing whether to ask me where to go. Although some drivers can drive until I talk, all drivers are obviously slower than at first, because they must be nervous and ready to change their driving routes according to their employers' instructions. The psychology of taxi drivers in this experience is very similar to that of horses in riding and riding coordination. Just like a driver who knows how to get to a designated place drives very fast, once the horse knows that your instructions have locked in his familiar target point, such as returning to the stable, his actions will become very active.

The rider's driving level is in the intermediate stage.

At this time, people have mastered all kinds of methods to match the weight and center of the horse, and the information instructions sent by various help paths (hand-pull-horse mouth, leg and foot riding) are clear and consistent. Correspondingly, the horse's obedience is getting better and better, so this is the fastest stage to improve the driving level.

The rider's driving level has entered an advanced stage.

At this time, people no longer pay attention to the technical details of coordination or information transmission, but pay more attention to what instructions are given to horses. It is precisely because of this that various relationships between men and women, different styles, different schools and different personal characteristics have emerged.

In the advanced stage of driving level, the rider transcends the weight-bearing center and actively changes the body center of gravity within a certain range in order to gain greater freedom on horseback. The greater the range of activities centered on the horse's center of gravity, the higher the riding skill, and vice versa. In the past, the degree of cooperation between man and horse was that man gave instructions-the horse received instructions and transformed them into interaction-man followed instructions with his own actions, and so on, which constituted the cooperative action between man and horse. In the advanced stage, people's instructions and actions are often carried out at the same time in one step. After receiving the instruction, the horse should use its own movements to match the center of gravity. Of course, this also requires both sides to have a "point" of psychological identity (unity) as a prerequisite. For example, when grazing horses, people in Mongolian grasslands always trap the mature horses in the herd and transfer them to the horses they ride. A rider who can do this kind of action must be a master of harness; A horse that can cooperate with people in trapping must also be a well-trained horse-a pole horse. When the harness rider decides to transfer, he will stretch out the harness pole in his hand and point to the horse to harness, and the horse will try to catch up with the horse in front according to the direction of the harness pole to keep the harness gloves alive. At this time, a series of tacit cooperation between men and women is of course the result of long-term training. In addition, after the previous horse is trapped, the burden of riding is transferred, and the latter horse can graze freely in the group. This is the result that Ji Ma can predict, and it is also the psychological identity point of his previous integration with people's actions.