I mean there are professional jockeys and show riders who must be doing *something* at a very high level, but I honestly don’t understand what. Like if I’m riding a horse that’s jumping over a fence, isn’t that all the horse? And I just need to not fall off?
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You need to be able to communicate with the horse using body movements. Just sitting on the horse is like just sitting in a car – it wont drive itself.
To get it to move, steer, jump etc you need to tell it and this is done by body movement, use of the reins, spoken instructions and subtle changes in the centre of gravity. With time, horses learn what their regular rider wants and so can sometimes take the initiative. But they arent pre-programmed.
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