I did do a search for this, and got a lot of threads on newbie mistakes.
I don't really know much about riding, was taught English for a couple of months a couple of decades ago, know vaguely of western style but never got to experience it, except when a Philly kid told me to tuck my hips under, which was so against what I had learned, and was so much better!
But the Perelli style is fascinating, and I wonder if anyone here knows of the differences between riding styles, or, barring that, specific things involving the Perelli style. From my vague recollection, it's more Western, but even more reliant on body signals and attunement between rider and horse. Less reins, less legs even, and more just thinking and looking.
I have a fairly modern (early 2000's) story of progressive ranchers and am just looking for descriptors for riding, verbal or physical cues for the characters who are saddling up and riding the fence lines, guiding cattle to new pastures, how the horses might behave with people who have adopted this philosophy of riding. If there is different tack. Thoughts on bareback riding.
I don't really know much about riding, was taught English for a couple of months a couple of decades ago, know vaguely of western style but never got to experience it, except when a Philly kid told me to tuck my hips under, which was so against what I had learned, and was so much better!
But the Perelli style is fascinating, and I wonder if anyone here knows of the differences between riding styles, or, barring that, specific things involving the Perelli style. From my vague recollection, it's more Western, but even more reliant on body signals and attunement between rider and horse. Less reins, less legs even, and more just thinking and looking.
I have a fairly modern (early 2000's) story of progressive ranchers and am just looking for descriptors for riding, verbal or physical cues for the characters who are saddling up and riding the fence lines, guiding cattle to new pastures, how the horses might behave with people who have adopted this philosophy of riding. If there is different tack. Thoughts on bareback riding.
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