Wrap Your Leg Around the Horse?

Riding Tips

8 February 2024

Have you ever been told to “wrap your leg around the horse?”

As though staying on requires literally getting your leg around the horse, and hanging on.

This is another piece of riding advice that can actually make us more tense and unstable.

Here’s why… if we wrap our leg, we tighten our hips and rotate our ankles, and those are two parts of our body we want fluid, unrestricted movement!

So what to do instead?

Depends on you and your horse’s body types!

Watch the video from 30 Day Better Riding Quest below!

*In the 30 Day Better Riding Quest, I also include a follow along, at home exercise video to answer your questions and help you practice the feeling of this before your next ride.

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Judith says:

April 4, 2024 at 10:37 am

thank you for this teaching! I was taught like a wet noodle 🙂

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Christine Geyer says:

July 17, 2024 at 9:43 am

Thank you
I love your videos 🎠
On the trail I was always relaxed with that light leg. Ironically in the ring I always felt watched.
On the way home, my horse went by the song it’s 5 o’clock somewhere 😂

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