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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If you just sit static on a horse, you will end up with an extremely painful posterior and possibly a fractured coccyx! You will effectively be allowing a 400kg weight to persistently hit you from below while your own weight crashes down from above. Horse riding is all about your legs, timing your rise and fall so that it is in rhythm with the horse’s movements, and acting as shock absorbers.
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