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Horseback RidingBy: Sofía Jaramillo
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Places To Horseback Ride
Another place I recommend you is in el
Guaymaral, there are three courts. Two
are covered and the last one is not. One
court that’s covered is for jumping and the
other one is to do dressage. The last courtthat I saw is for jumping and its the one
that I like the most because it is
uncovered. The last court I recommend
you to go is in el Rancho. In el Rancho
there are five courts, and all of them are
very big. The four are, covered and areused to do jumping and dressage, and the
last one is uncovered and it is also used to
do bolting and dressage.
This is in la Pradera where the horses are.
This looks like a cool place to ride.
There are many places to ride horses
but the one I recommend you is in la
pradera. In la pradera there are four
courts, one is covered for jumping but
you could also do dressage. That court
is the one that most people like to do so
it is very crowded. The second court isa circular one that its used for bolting ,
but sometimes they teach little kids to
learn to ride there. The last courts is
uncovered and people use it to do
dressage and jumping.
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A good place to ride should have the three
important activities which are jumping, dressage
and bolting. Also there should be teachers that
know a lot about at least one of these exercises on
horseback riding. For example in la pradera there
is three activities and good teachers that teach it.
Omar is the bolting teacher and the conductor of
the bolting team, he uses the horses Jimmy and
Paco which are the biggest school horses that la
pradera has.
Juan Banensuela is my teacher
and I think he is the best because
he is a champion and knows a lot
of good strategies and exercises.
Also he is very strict about
dressage and one thing that he
tells me, that I really like is that, jumping is dressage with
obstacles, and he teached me all
the things that I am writing on
this informational book, when
you are with him or at the level
he teach you normally start
buying your horse.
For experts or bigger kids there is a
teacher called Juan Benites which
teaches very advanced kids that jump
1,50 meters or more. All of his students
have a horse.
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When I started to learngalloping I just thought that to
make your horse gallop you
should sit down kick and wait
until the horse understands that
you are asking him to gallop.
But now I realize that you don't
even have to kick to make yourhorse gallop.
To make your horsegallop you first short
the trot, sit down,
press with both legs
but the inner leg should go up a little
bit and press and
your outer leg
should stay where it
is and press. Last
you should turn the
horse a little bit to
the side where you
are going and the
horse should
gallop.This look easy
to do but is takes
practice. A rider that is in the right position doing the
right things to gallop.
Galloping
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To know when your horse is
galloping right you look at
the start of the leg of thehorse and the inner leg
should move faster than the
outer leg. If the outer leg is
going faster than the inner
leg you should put yourhorse to trot and try again.
When you gallop you should
press with your legs, and sit
down and it will be more
comfortable.
This man is doing a very bad job
because he is standing up and
leaning forward, he is doing the
jumping position not even well done.
You know when your
horse is tired because
he is sweating and hedoesn't want to speed
up. You can't only gallop
all your class because
your horse will startstopping and can get
sick.
As you can
see this
horse is
sweeting
well that is
because he
is tired
and heshould
rest.
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The parallel is one type of jump.
JumpingThere are many types of jumps. For
example the parallel. The parallel is more
than one (depending on how tall is the
jump) bars on the same row. Another jumpis la cruceta. That is two bars crossed and
the horse should pass in the middle of the
bars. The last type of jump that I know is the
oxer which is two parallels super close by.
The horse should pass both bars in one jump. To jump you dont have to go very
fast, in fact, you can jump while you trot.The position before you jump or going to
do the jump is,
1. Put your back, back2. Look far away
3. Press with your legs
4. Move your horse to the middle of the
jump
5. Keep your inner and outer hand firmand still on top of the horses neck.
Cruceta
Oxer
Click
hereto
Watch
a
HorseJump
a Wall
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When you are in the jump, you,
1. Stand up a little bit.
2. Put your body forward.
3. Put your hands on the horsesneck.
4. Press with your legs.
5. Still look faraway.
After the jump you1. Sit down,2. Sitback
3. Continue In Italy first they
discovered to jump you
had to lean back. Later
they discovered they
could lean in front but
the exaggerated a lot
when they leaned
forward. Lastly they
invented that you canlean a little bit and go
with the horse.
As you can see this boy is exaggerating when he
jumps.
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In this moment it
would be a good
idea to cuddle your
horse if he did a good job. When your
horse does a very
good job in your
class the best price
for him is to let him
rest.
Alberto Larraguibel and his horse Huaso
made the record by jumping 2.47 meters. It is
said that the first time he tried the horse
didn't jump, the second time the horse did
jump but with his back leg he knocked down abar and the third and last time he did it and
made the record that has never been beaten
since the time he did it. The horse after they
beat the record continued but broke all his
muscles.
Click here to see the World Record Jump
Huaso and Alberto jumping 2.47 meters.
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Horseback riding can befun but it can also be a
dangerous sport, but if you
use the right equipment
you can be protected if
something happens. First
the helmet that is the first
thing you should put on forsafety. The helmet helps
because if you fall down of
your horse and the horse
steps on your head and youdon't have a helmet, you
would die, and also if you
fall on your head and don't
have a helmet, you can also
die.
This man fell of his horse
pretty bad and if he wouldn't had a helmet he
would of died.
The helmet GPA. I
recommend you to
use it in case you fall.
Equipment
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Another very important safety
equipment is the vest. The vest
covers your chest and your
back. It is important because
your ribs and your spine are themost important part to be
protected and also your head. If
you are riding and you fall and
the horse steps on your back or
on your chest and you don'thave a vest, your spine or ribs
might break and you won't be
able to move specially if your
spine breaks.The vest.
The correct uniform to horseback ride.
The clothes you should use
is britches for pants and I
use a polo shirt tucked in.
Lastly the boots, the socks
that you use should be long
that covers all the part the
boot touches that is so the
britches don't get dirty and
nothing gets into them.
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When you buy your horse it means you
are ready. Ready to take a big
responsibility because you can't say I
want this horse and one month later say
that I don't want it, actually to change
the horse you would have to move to a
higher level and the horse that you havedoesn't work for you, so it takes a big
responsibility and also you have to be a
good horseback rider because when you
go to a tournament in another city your
parents might not bring your horse so you have to be a good horseback rider so
you can use any horse they give you.
This is the horse of my
friend and she is a very good rider and she has a
big responsibility with
this horse. She also test
this horse but this isn't a perfect horse but the
horse teaches my friend.
Buying Your Horse
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To buy your horse you need to test a
horse that is on sale and if you like it
and it is useful for you, you can buy
it. You know when the horse you testis for you because:
1.He should be calm.
2. You should feel comfortable.
3. It is not heavy for you.
4. He doesn't have any problems in
his legs or something.
5. You can ask him to transition
easily.
6. His galloping is comfortable and
it is easy for you to make him gallop.
7. It is useful for your level.
They look like they love their horse.
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This horse or any horse
can't be perfect and the
horses that have
something's to work on
are the horses that
teach you.
The good horses are
very very expensiveespecially the high
jumping horses because
they have to be fine.
Dressage horses are
very expensive too.
Sometimes your horse has some
of these things, but some horses
are missing one or two so you
have to practice with them so the
horse can do it. I don't think thereis a horse that is perfect and has
all of these, that you would sit
down and the horse would gallop
and you didn't do anything and if
you had a perfect horse it would be bad, because you won´t be a
good rider if the horse does
everything to you and if
something happens you won't be
able to ride it out.
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Fun Facts About Horses
1. Horses hear 40times better than
humans.
2. Horses see better to
the side than in front
because of there big
forehead
Horses forehead.
Horses ears.
Do you know any
other fun fact?
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1. Bolting: Is a class where you work
your balance by doing tricks ontop of
your horse. This tricks can be made
walking, trotting or galloping.
2. Dressage: Where you demonstrate
that you can control your horse and that
the transitions are made whenever you
want and that you do the correct thingsto make the transition happen.
3. Jumping: It is dressage with obstacles
you have to ride through with your horse
without knocking any bars to the
ground.
4. Oxer: Two parallels close by. The
horse should pass both bars in one jump.
5. Parallel: More than one bar on the
same row. The bottom bar is so the horse
doesn't see if the jump is very tall.
6. Cruceta: Two bars that are crossed.The horse should pass it through the
middle.
7. Inner Leg: The leg that points to the
inside of the court.
8. Outer Leg: The leg that points to the
outside of the court.
Glossary
Guess which picture goes with each bold word! There are two words without picture.
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Answer
Dressage
Jumping
Bolting
Oxer
Parallel
Cruceta
Outer legInner leg These are
the words without
picture.
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