Riding Tips for riding Broncy Horses

[@Mudpuppy9722]

Careful you don't get dragged with that boot shoved all the way home! I'd rather bite the dust than get drug through it. ;)

[@teenagefarmer]

Exactly

[@livewithmanon6443]

Same!!

[@primmentertainment6013]

Exactly that's what I was fixing to say that was why I was always taught to stay on your toes you'd much rather walk home than be dragged once you see somebody get drugged on asphalt for about a hundred yards and literally the palms of their hands are gone and it's nothing but bone and their elbows are nothing but bone you'll decide walking home ain't so bad and falling off that horse ain't that bad compared to being dragged

[@mrzeros_yt8967]

Or even the horse flipping on top of you

[@johnmoore-fy4hf]

Oh shit other side of that bad day coin!! Wow

[@topknotsrule]

I was told that the reason for riding on the ball of your foot was to avoid the scenario where you fall off but your foot gets stuck in the stirrup and you end up getting dragged for miles through lots of cactus and boulders 😲

[@MrStaybrown]

When you get dragged ...your shirt will slide off over your head and then you cannot see a thing while bouncing along. Don't get dragged people.

[@topknotsrule]

@@MrStaybrown sounds like you have personal experience! Hope you're okay now!

[@kellydavis6316]

That's why you wear heeled boots and not tennis shoes

[@MrStaybrown]

@@topknotsrule thanks. It happened along time ago when I was young. The horse walked a little ways but with 1 leg in the air it was still a work out. I'm glad she stopped walking, and I'm glad she didn't decide to run.

[@racistrobinhood]

Exactly how it was explained to me when I was taught. From Fauquier county VA and was around thoroughbreds and the foxhunting community. Extremely tall and powerful horses that would kill you if they take off while dragging you.

[@CurryandPeach]

My dressage trainers worst nightmare right there 😂

[@nadineblake6354]

If ALL riders rode and trained the classical dressage way the world would be a better place. First lighten the front and get the horse moving in from the hind. You not only have a more comfortable ride with 4 × 4 mode, but you save all the hammering to the front legs. Once you've ridden a horse that raises it's back under you and steps way under himself from the back and doesn't stick his head up all the time, you'll never ride an unschooled horse again.

[@lilybellastopthebiglick4569]

@@nadineblake6354 I 100% agree with you on that one!

[@showton8333]

Dressage saddles use stirrup hangers which, in theory, will seperate from the saddle freeing the rider should that happen. Western stirrups actually encircle the left and right bar of the saddle tree. It ain't coming off!

[@nadineblake6354]

@@showton8333 well said. A regular riding hat with a brim will protect the head in a fall. A stetson won't.

[@kellydavis6316]

@Janitor Queen you can't dressage when riding a cutting horse.

[@Aralphjr]

I was taught to ride with just a bareback saddle (just a pad that buckles to the horse) until I could hang on with just my knees. As everyone else is saying sticking your foot all the way in the stirrups is a good way to get drug. I’ve lost my stirrups many times on a horse that’s acting up only to ride it out and get my stirrups back.

[@GreatLakesGirl311]

Same here, and I had a great teacher!🐎

[@lspthrattan]

Same here. Got our first family pony when I was four but wasn't allowed stirrups until I was ten. Until then I had to use the bareback pad, and I'm glad I did.

[@banditsspies6759]

Agreed your ability to a buck is not dependent on the stirrups but on your seat

[@donnasanford4402]

I was riding once. Up in sky country. New rider, on vacation. I can't remember how my boots were hanging.I will never forget what happened. We started going full steam ahead. I got the hang of it. No more up and down in the saddle. Smooth as anything. I let out a happy shout. Just then, my horse started running on his front knees. He is going down fast! A scene from a cowboy movie flashed through my mind. Uh, uh, I'm not having this horse land on me! I quick pulled my boots out of the stirrups and held my knees high, the horse started tumbling head over heels to the right and I did the same to the left. I watched the horse and can still recall how he looked tumbling. We both got up, I grabbed my hat, walked over, grabbed the reins. We both walked away. He had thrown a shoe I was too sore to ride again for a week. What a memory. A Hollywood stunt man couldn't have done better!

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

Really someone who knew their shit couldn't have maybe helped save the situation? Seems unlikely

[@lizxu322]

@@NoThankUBeQuiet saved them how? Slowing down an 1000 pound animal from falling? Boy u not very bright are you

[@brookeggleston9314]

@@lizxu322 The Hulk, maybe?!?

[@kellydavis6316]

Glad you and the horse were ok.

[@donnasanford4402]

@@kellydavis6316 Thank you. I had a lot of fun until we fell. It was just like slow motion when we started going down. Watching all those cowboy movies really did me some good even though it was years ago. I was so sore!

[@adanlangford1696]

I’m gonna have to disagree…I’d rather get bucked off then get my foot caught in the stirrup and dragged by the horse .

[@ambrr_lily]

The point is to not get bucked off in the first place. He is telling you how to stay on the horse. Maybe only the ball of your foot on the stirrup guarantees you're leaving the saddle since you have nothing to hold onto. He breaks horses, so he's experienced with bucking.

[@liloneissad576]

@@ambrr_lily okay but like lets say we are doing a no stirrups exercise and the horse takes off like that's happened to me before and i stayed on😐

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

@@ambrr_lily I'm also experienced with bucking if you learn to ride properly a buck isn't usually gonna unseat you. This is why you practice no stirrups

[@catetemple311]

@K A Technically with proper groundwork, when breaking in young horses there really shouldn’t be reason to buck. That and, often times when horses buck it’s because something’s wrong or they’re excited/ have energy. I’d rather not get dragged thank you. You should have the proper ability to ride without stirrups in case you need to, otherwise you shouldn’t be riding off the lunge, because crap happens. I’ve lost stirrups before, being an idiot. Like two or three times I did it while run running the barrels and I did fine.

[@liloneissad576]

@@catetemple311 yeah i agree you should be able to stay on with no stirrups i dont necessarily think you should be on a lunge but still every good rider falls sometimes

[@nostradamus7648]

I just put a quarter in the machine and wait for the ride to start 😂

[@AndyTheCornbread]

You can have the best of both worlds if you go with a deep Monel stirrup like a 4" - 5" deep one depending on your foot length. Then you can put your foot in as deep or shallow as you need and you won't get hung up if you get bucked off. I was always taught to put the center of the stirrup at the same point in your foot as you would a ladder rung when you climb a ladder so you are at the optimum point for both leverage and balance.

[@jebediahnightlinger6357]

Monels give a person a great platform for everything! I have no problems putting my feet all in and going at it, roping or otherwise.

[@maryanderson2759]

I’m still going to ride on the balls of my feet. No wayyyyyy would I ever do it your way. Lots of respect to you though

[@freedomforever6718]

I always ride with a couple of carrots in my pocket. Horses have a keen sense of smell. I've never had a horse try to buck me to the ground when I have carrots.

[@MezzoMamma1]

That is a new one. I will have to try it.

[@catetemple311]

It’s honestly both hilarious and the most wholesome thing I’ve heard in a while.

[@juangonzalez9848]

Fun fact, that’s why heels were first put on footwear. To better lock into stirrups. Modern boots kept them partly as a holdover from older days, but also partly because they do the same thing for ladders.

[@PhillipHall01]

The Western heel was designed with the slant so when you have a colt on the end of a rope or lunge line that decides to head out on you, you rock back on your heels and dig in. The heel digs in the ground giving the handler a better chance of getting the situation back under control. Sometimes even that is not enough. Colts started out right usually do not put 'the heel' to the test. Phillip Hall

[@georgehernandez9602]

Just as it is with any tool they have their purposes. Believe or not, a stirrup is a tool. So, If you have a broncy horse a flat bottom stirrup may be enough but, if you have a BRONC then then the oxbow might be the tool necessary to complete the task. “Suum cuique” (to each his own). Long live cowboys!!

[@larsjansen3745]

Kiwi chiming in here, I'm a big fan of the balls of your feet in the stirrups. It let's your ankle joint function like a shock absorber. Them Yankee colts must be tame, all the best fella.

[@avery3613]

Yes!

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

He just isn't as knowledgeable as he seems to think. I'm from the US and I'm 100% with you

[@PhillipHall01]

@@NoThankUBeQuiet He is knowledgeable in many aspects. He knows his way around ranch life, horses, and cows, but not quite enough this time I'm afraid. Very dangerous what he is doing and teaching, 'this time'. At least I feel better knowing so many folks have posted comments to the contrary of what he is teaching on 'this' video. Maybe no one will be hurt or killed because of the uproar here in the comment section; hopefully: Including this nice fellow himself which made the video... Blessings, Phillip Hall

[@brook.53]

All depends on the situation. Going up in the mountains, being a "true cowboy," yes, do this. Doing things in arenas (anything from dressage to cattle roping), ride with the ball/front of your foot on the stirrup and force your heels down for balance

[@dawnsmith3278]

I use to break and train horses and what you do is a good way to get drug. You don't ride a green horse out by yourself you always ride with another good rider. If your horse is still bucking after a month. Either you are not putting enough miles on the horse or your not doing it right. Before you even start to break a horse out you have to make sure you have their ground manners down pat. You will find a few horses that are true screws. That will buck or rear without warning. They either had something traumatic happened to them by a person, they have learned (from inexperienced rider) that if they act bad enough they don't have to work, or they are not mentally right. Either way they are not worth getting hurt or killed by. There are way to many good horses going to the kill buyers to mess with a horse that will never be trustworthy.

[@EmCrazy]

I agree with the first part but I disagree with the last part. No horse "has something wrong mentally" they just need time and work. If you treat them right, without hurting them and in a safe environment you will be fine. Any horse can hurt or kill you but every horse can also be trust worthy but they need to trust you first. If they care about you they wont try to hurt you. No guarantees they wont hurt you accidentally like any other horse though. I know this cos me and my sisters used to buy horses that were abused, untrained or just naughty. Still do just without my oldest sister. I am aware that I am only 14 and other people have more experience then my and know more then me but i also know with the right training any horse can be fixed. Especially if you adjust to their needs. We had a horse that no matter what we did would be amazing for 1 of us but terrible for the other 2. We ended up selling him on thinking he isnt safe for us as it was a couple years ago and at that time we didnt hav an arena. This person was supposed to continue his training and sell him on the the right person. About 2 months later we found out she sold him. After about 6 months we found him at his forever home. He had changed owners at least 3 times in 6 months. But we learnt from that that had just needed 1 person, there couldn't be more then that. Dont know why but that's what he needed

[@MezzoMamma1]

Working with rescue horses I find what you say is true.

[@catetemple311]

@Em crazy You’re entirely correct, I think they didn’t mean that though lol. I’m pretty sure they just meant that as another way of saying traumatized, in a way that could potentially be dangerous, especially holding the stirrups like that. But I completely agree with both you and the op.

[@PhillipHall01]

@@EmCrazy I have to respectfully disagree with you. Though 'rare' and few and far inbetween, there are those who are mentally nuts 'freaks of nature'. The young lady was spot on from the first sentence to the last. Phillip Hall

[@EmCrazy]

@@PhillipHall01 people can always disagree. But in my eyes there is never an issue with he horse, only the person who trained them. If the person starts with the horse wrong, the horse will end wrong. But these things can always be reversed. Again people can disagree but I myself will never give up on a horse or any other animal

[@georgeparsons7338]

Get a full pedal. If you're bucked off turn your belly to the ground. I've rode many saddle broncs in HSRodeos, junior rodeos, ACRA and NIRA. It was drilled into my head, turn your belly to the ground

[@rafterL78]

I'll be you didn't wear those rubber soled work boots either

[@lauriestlyon8773]

Many years ago I learnt to ride "English" style (because I live in England!) where we use both hands on the reins pull the horses head in the direction we want it to go. Then I went to Belize in Central America. There I learned to ride "American" style where you "neck rein" by holding the reins in one hand and the horse responds to the feel of the reing on the opposite side of its neck to where you want go. Took some getting used to. I also confirm that losing a stirrup at full gallop when the horse got the bit between its teeth is a scary thing! Managed to stop it by hanging round its neck 6 inches from a thorn bush of biblical proportions!!!!! Keep your darned foot deep in the stirrup.

[@avery3613]

As a barrel racer, it had its uses. But I would never ride an unsafe or spooky horse with my feet shoved in the stirrup, I don’t want to get dragged.

[@catetemple311]

@Avery Exactly. I barrel race, and I have lost stirrups a couple times during a barrel run to my own stupidity. But I stayed on and continued riding, and had no problems. Good bareback or just stirrupless abilities or foundations are key. Because what if something happens? That and I don’t want to get dragged.

[@avery3613]

@@catetemple311 exactly. If you can’t ride without stirrups you shouldn’t be relying on these tricks

[@abuckingbay1328]

If you train a horse right they won’t buck or bronk when breaking, I got on my youngster the other day he is 3 years old and it was his first time being led with a rider on top and he was fine he never bucked or anything the problem a LOT of people have is they don’t wait for the horse they just jump on and think if they hold on while the horse is freaking out that’s backing them but if you wait and take things slower the horse won’t freak and buck.

[@avery3613]

THIS.

[@nursemarn]

This is so true. When I was 16 I was thrown from a horse. Lost my footing. When I landed on the ground the reins were tangled around my feet. She dragged me for over 100 feet. She kicked me while I was unconscious and broke 3 ribs. She dragged me around some more before she was caught. I probably should have been taken to hospital but my dad said I was fine and to walk it off. I haven’t been on a horse since. That was 1986.

[@avery3613]

He what?! You were definitely not fine, wow…

[@nursemarn]

@@avery3613 yeah. He’s a heavy drinker. So….yeah

[@nottheone582]

how in heavens name did you get reins tangled on your feet? thats talent! lol

[@nursemarn]

@@nottheone582 thank you, but I won’t be doing an encore 🤣

[@catzndolz61]

Your Dad was WRONG! You were severely injured! You needed urgent medical care and DEFINITELY a CHIROPRACTOR!!

[@mxwolfje]

I’d rather fall in a cactus than get dragged by my foot in the stirrups

[@bryanlacount7551]

I love watching posts like this bring out every horse expert and their dog.

[@sheilacampbell2521]

IKR LoL All these self proclaimed experts 🤣 I would rather listen to a man who's been doing this his entire life and his family generation's of riding and ranching.

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

@@sheilacampbell2521 What makes you think the rest of us haven't been doing it our entire life? I'd rather listen to 100 people in consensus than one outlier

[@catetemple311]

@K A Exactly! And it’s common knowledge of where to put your stirrups. Both for better balance and riding equitation, as well as safety reasons. Someone who thinks putting their foot there is ok is someone who wasn’t quite taught correctly or is just making a bad habit.

[@PhillipHall01]

@@NoThankUBeQuiet Yep

[@timklassen421]

I use a boot with a good riding heel and keep my toes pointed slightly out with my heels down now that Iam a old man hitting the dirt could be fatal .

[@MezzoMamma1]

I agree. My friend ended up in the hospital with a damaged kidney from a fall. Us older people must stay on the horse.

[@buffalogal9139]

The boots are key, one with a good heel and a strong shaft on them.

[@BeverleyMiller_]

​@@MezzoMamma1 I knew a guy who broke his pelvis! He was an experienced rider on his own horse trained by him. Freak accidents happen, so you must never loose focus.

[@PhillipHall01]

Bunkum, you ride with the tension of your inner leg muscles just as our ancestors did without even the aid of a saddle. Lakota... etc...

[@MezzoMamma1]

You’re got to be one good horsemen to do that. 👍

[@travisritzman6772]

Go ahead and post a video of you roping a steer while riding bareback. I'd like to see that.

[@PhillipHall01]

@@travisritzman6772 Travis I use the saddle but I do not rely solely on the stirrups. Yes they are handy.. However; I NEVER cram my foot up to the heel and for good reason. Thankfully I was taught to ride with my inner leg muscles and was not allowed to even use stirrups in the beginning. Stirrups came later. I am thankful I was taught to ride in the old way, even when using a saddle. This fellow making the videos, I believe is a good hearted fellow, I enjoy his videos 'very' much. But I would hate to know someone was killed in an accident because of his teaching, 'cramming' the boot to the heels in the stirrups', which I do not agree with for obvious reasons.

[@catetemple311]

@Travis Ritzman I barrel race, and I can ride bareback. I’ve lost stirrups during barrel runs (to my own stupidity) where I was full on running those tight turns with my horse. I never got my stirrups back during the run if I lost them, because of my saddle lol. But I never had any issues staying in or balanced. Because I make sure to work on my balance and equitation- it’s more important than some barrel racers or just western people in general seem to realize. You should be able to ride bareback or without stirrups in case something happens, or you need to go back to basics and re-learn it. If you’re relying on the stirrups the way this man is- you’re not quite riding correctly. Keeping the stirrups that far back is barely gonna make a difference in keeping them on; and it’s also a good way to get drug. That’s why good trainers will teach the balls of the feet. Better ankle flexion, better balance, better strength, and just safer in general. Don’t use the: “well how about you do it” excuse. I’ve never roped, but I do believe I could do it. Like I said, I’ve turned barrels without stirrups to my own stupidity. Stirrups are helpful, yes. And I’d rather ride with them. But you should never ever ever rely on them. Otherwise, there’s some basics that need refreshing. (I also believe this man is being very kind hearted in this, and I believe he means the best, but he’s just gonna have to accept being a little wrong on this one. Just not a smart idea for people to copy lol).

[@PhillipHall01]

@@catetemple311 Keep turning and burning Cate! Wishing you the best! Phillip Hall

[@jakobs.family.computer]

I have so many questions man. Origin stories of like how this ranch became to be and what your dad did and how you came to do this and why you do it would be cool, it's just so foreign to me. Maybe I'll find them in your videos I haven't watched them all yet

[@PhillipHall01]

Coming from a ranching family, I can relate and would like to hear more about their origins too! Blessings, Phillip Hall

[@vistrode9604]

I see people have committed on your foot in the stirrup but turning you toes out is also not a good idea! When your toes are out that means your leg is out the horse and you are ready to bury your spurs! When your feet are forwards your leg is on and you will stay with the horse not falling on your pants pockets. And your spurs are away from the horse so you don’t spur at the wrong moment! The military manuals were very clear about this issue!!!!❤️

[@samanthaquant7411]

I grew up dressage riding and it’s a different animal. We put the ball of our foot on the stirrup and always wear a heel so that our foot doesn’t go through the stirrup and we end up getting dragged.

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

No it's the same western this guy is just a lazy outrider

[@joelbecker7690]

@@NoThankUBeQuiet Western riding is to ride however suits you best. There’s no right or wrong way, it’s whatever is effective for you. Just because you don’t like his method doesn’t mean it’s lazy or incorrect.

[@leealexander3507]

I started my last horse tackless. I didn't intend to ride him but once I was on his back he headed eagerly for the gate. I had taught him all his cues from the ground so I checked to make sure I had brakes and steering before we headed for the trails. One of the guys ran out of the barn yelling that he had moved some mares to the lower pasture and that he would grab a rope. I waved him off and kneed my horse, a seven year old breeding stallion, away from the mares and back to the trail and we had a lovely ride. I rode him for years and he never once got bronkey. Just very forward.

[@dlmalley8639]

I ride like him. Always have. More comfortable.

[@bartman8876]

Like you said horse bump everything unlike mules. I may be off as I ride motorcycles. But I keep toes in vs hanging out don't wanna catch nothing and rip foot out

[@mrhighlight8771]

If you loose your foot don't panic and keep your same seat it will come back to your foot in a few strides.. If a horse rolls on you have a chance of getting hung up foot fully inn.. At the tip of your toe will keep you flush and have a way to pull the horse back underneath you by giving you a chance to keep that horses energy moving forward.. And all that movement will take place for you staying on with all the weight of yours and his motion to suck your body and heals straight down.. I have breaking race horses cutting horses and just about anything nobody wants to risk fixing.. And a ol Mexican guy taught me in finger lakes new York.. 25 years ago.. But nomatter what we tell people. It's gotta happen before you understand.. Then how bad do you want it is the other question.. That ground has taught many men and women about a horse..

[@gabriellecloverbow6271]

Hmm.. idk about this. Would I rather get dragged or bucked off?

[@LifeintheWest]

Well…. Its a choice!! 😄

[@Starry_Night_Sky7455]

@@LifeintheWest A pair of grippy suede chaps helps make riding out feisty behavior nearly effortless.

[@gracelynnwilson1233]

When I was going to riding lessons, I was always taught to keep The stirrup on the ball of my foot and keep my heels down ❤

[@olered7760]

I’m 60 n learning to ride is on my bucket list

[@hadleyjewelstone4821]

And that's how I almost broke my leg. When I was younger, I used to ride western (just like normal arena riding but with a western saddle, we just kinda played around, running barrels, pole, we would race cars because the arena was right next to a road) and the person that owned everything (the horses we were riding, the tack, property, the arena. Basically everything we were using) kept yelling at us to keep our heels down, balls of our feet in the stirrup. One day we were being stupid and racing cars without the owner in the arena or even watching us closely, it was spring time so the horses were excited and rearing to go. I was racing a UPS truck down the arena fence when at the last couple fence post the horse started to buck (note that all her horses are mostly bombproof. they don't normally buck, she even looked at me weird when I told her what happens afterwards. She said gunner has never bucked a rider off before and even claimed that I was lying even though my friend saw what happens and someone that was walking their dog saw it. Gunner is the horse I was riding btw) and at first I was able to stay on for a couple seconds, but I felt that I was starting to fall. My feet fell out of the stirrups the instant he started bucking so the only safety line I had was the horn ( which wasn't even that big because I was using gaming saddle in him even though he is a reining horse). I fell and almost broke my leg because I didn't have the stirrups has a second safety line. I got yelled at later by the owner because I didn't have my feet fully in the stirrups and that it was my fault that I, a beginner at the time that only knew the basics, couldn't feel the signals that he was gonna buck. My parents didn't want me to quite because they put a lot of money into these "lessons". I stopped riding there some months later when the owner sold my favorite horse from under my nose ( my family had payed her money for that horse and we had everything we needed for a horse, she said that the person who bought the horse was a better fit and i didn't get her because I didn't know how to ride and i wouldnt be the right fit for her. That horse was sold to a barn as a lesson horse for children. I bought her from that barn because she started bucking kids off, I would too if my mouth was being pulled raw. All I got out of that whole experience is an awesome line of palomino quarter horses.)

[@hadleyjewelstone4821]

And yes I would rather get bucked off than dragged, but the saddle had some sort of breakaway stirrup (idk how, I don't normally see that on western saddles). And in the situation I was in, if I had my stirrups, then I probably wouldn't have fallen off, that wasn't my first time getting bucked on. From experience, if I didn't listen to my coach, then I wouldn't have to have my parents pay A lot of money to just find out i mildly sprained my ankle. Also I ride both western and english now and I am putting my feet in correctly, i just wished that in that moment i did the wrong thing and had my feet fully in the stirrups.

[@howardcroft3748]

Here in Australia riding boots have a big heal so the boot literally can't slip through the stirrup.

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

mm the issue is if you lack equitation it can

[@doublehelix2609]

English riders put the ball of their foot in the stirrup and the foot points forward in the direction the horse is traveling. When giving the horse an aid for canter, for example, then the heel is turned towards the horse’s side and pressure or a slight kick is given until the horse responds. Many English riders use special stirrups, which break away/ release if the foot is twisted as in a fall-freeing the foot, so the rider is not dragged. I’d rather be dumped than dragged. The horse will run home or stop and wait for you. My horses usually wait for me if I’ve fallen off-not all though. I like hearing your ideas-even though we might not agree. Thanks for sharing. We can all learn from each other. I live in the Northeastern USA.🇺🇸 Montana looks beautiful!💕

[@osrsslayer9831]

No! No! No bro my uncle has lost his life because of that. He was dragged for miles and when they finally got the horse to stop he was dead.

[@davidwooderson5926]

Jesus Christ that’s why I stay clear of horses. I’ll bet on them at Aqueduct but that’s about it. Those crazy ass jockeys got balls of steal. They’re way too big to F around with. Didn’t the Natives ride bareback?

[@marshallferron]

@David Wooderson It's kind of a Hollywood trope that all Indians were out there riding bareback on painted ponies. Some did ride bareback, some rode a saddle, and some did both. They would either make their own saddles from rawhide or obtain them through trade or other means.

[@davidwooderson5926]

@@marshallferron Yeah Hollywood tends to do that a lot. I was not aware they made their own saddles. Did they start after Europeans arrived or was it something they did long before their arrival?

[@davidwooderson5926]

@@marshallferron sorry you don’t have to answer I can look that up I’m intrigued now I know you don’t have time to answer these dumb questions thank you for the previous info though

[@garysmith789]

When we were kids my dad would not let us use saddles unless he was with us. He was afraid we would hung up in the stirrups. He had a friend when he was young that did. We had pretty well broke horses to ride. And we were darn good bare back riders that could stay on pretty much anywhere at any speed with any breed of horse. (Mostly Quarter Horses with a few Mustangs).

[@lilplaguedoc6682]

I did riding lessons as a kid and the teacher told me my first time riding "hey, don't do that. Put your foot all the way in" etc etx (exactly what ya showed in the video) Apparently I was never needed to be told to do it again and I still remember that little fact so- lol

[@ericakrieger3106]

I’m so fascinated cause I was trained where my instructor ripped our stirrups off and we’d train for a month- full jump courses no stirrups to learn how to “be sticky”, I rode in a western saddle for first time in a long time and it’s like a gooddamn seatbelt

[@mekosmowski]

You might land on a nice soft rattlesnake den. And you're so right, the heel of the boot was invented for stirrup use. It's also useful for ladders.

[@darcy543]

Those western saddles look really supportive, feel bad for English riders 😭

[@Nygaard2]

Guess when you’re used to riding on islands, the threat of the horse running away is less intimidating... Enjoying your videos from Denmark.

[@CincinnatiDan]

Hahahahahaha, your last line is perfect.

[@nottheone582]

Riders usually resort to this error due to lack of dorsiflexion in their ankles. you need to work on mobility and practice actually sinking the weight into your heel when riding. it's actually way safer and more secure to ride on the ball of the foot, provided you can get good ankle flexion. much prefer this and feels way more secure, plus never risk getting foot caught in stirrup

[@catetemple311]

Absolutely.

[@inarikeenoy991]

Another tip: getting on a horse for the first time, ( I mean a one that is having its first ever ride, was wild ) ALWAYS, have your foot out of the stirrups so you don’t get dragged!

[@joeyelton407]

I was always told to keep your heel out of the stirrup in case the horse goes down.... we rode mostly in the moutains.

[@AnAZPatriot]

Stirrups? Saddles? Only thing I used were reins for the 8 yrs I owned a horse. Kept me warm that way too. Got thrown a lot at first. Also couldn't walk right for a while when I first started. Good times.

[@Cayuse2009]

We didn't have money for a saddle when I grew up so I learned to ride bareback. Now that I have a saddle, when things get hairy, I kick my feet out and don't use my stirrups, I clamp my legs around the barrel of the horse. I had a friend that got his foot hung up in the stirrup and almost was killed by getting dragged. Old-time cowboys told me they wore a pistol so they could shoot the horse if he got his foot hung up in the stirrup.

[@belindahawkins4083]

Thank u for sharing your heritage ranch and horses with the masses I know I never knew most of the stuff u talk about

[@DustyHoney]

My boots are designed to rest in the stirrup a specific way, and so that’s how I do it usually.

[@robertjones-vm7qu]

When I was working young horses I used monel stirrups. If they went down the stirrup would not get crushed

[@showton8333]

The saddle for working a broncy horse should have a shorter seat than is comfortable for normal riding. And the squaw-tits on the swells of your saddle, are WORTH their weight in gold, for a bad one! Thank You! For a GREAT channel!

[@da4441]

Sounds like a stirrup is like a bicycle pedal. You can choose what part of your foot is on the pedal.

[@LifeintheWest]

Yes. If you are in a more risky situation, then you want to set your foot deeper to hold on better to your boot.

[@dixiebasweetie]

When my horse is happy, she like to roll on the ground. She doesn’t care if I’m on her back. So I need to be ready to make a quick dismount. Though I understand your reasoning and in your situation I would feel the same.

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

When I was 7 year's old, my Grandpa had a couple horse's. I did not know anything about riding. My cousin's told me not to get on this one horse bare back because he would run down the fence row everytime. I didn't believe them, until I jumped on bare back once. I believed them afterwards. The horse darn near took my left leg off, until I jumped off him.

[@LifeintheWest]

That is called a “sour” horse. They are much worse and more dangerous than a broncy horse.

[@PhillipHall01]

@@LifeintheWest Agreed

[@chrisjones9115]

I have ridden both ways but the one thing people keep commenting on is his saddle he used to break horses. In that situation you do want your feet all the way in . You’re not breaking horses in the middle of the pasture, you’re doing that in a round pen more than likely and you’re not by yourself. Worse case scenario if you did get hung up, the horse would go 20’ or until someone else stopped him. At least that has been the way I was taught and have seen it done.

[@Bhartrampf]

Loved them OX BO stirrups. Can't ride anymore though

[@yourmomsfav23]

I literally have no horse or hinny or mule...but I love this page. Lol. Learning just in case...haaaa

[@chirelle.alanalooney8609]

I totally agree with you 100%.

[@nickjimenez4262]

Thats why my horse was one step from the glue factory. We had an agreement. I never ever asked him to run or do anything silly. Except at Mule Days when i had had a bit to much to drink. He barely plodded along and i was fine with that.

[@tthams73]

You also don’t want your foot / ankle getting hung up in the stirrup when you get bucked off. I grew up on horse ranch! A very large horse ranch! You are NOT wrong!

[@emilyfrigge]

I'm guessing the ball of the foot thing is for more controlled situations with thoroughly broken horses. It makes sense to have different priorities for different situations.

[@msvaj]

I was thinking exactly. I like to put my foot all the way in the ring and not half way hanging.

[@halfbreed4life62]

Depends on which scenario you think is better ..getting totally loose from a bucking horse... my grandparents would tell me to use the ball...never get drug...I fixed both of them...and rode Indian...no tack...just me & horse

[@jrkebs]

I rode a horse one time that the stirrups were way too long. It started running as fast as it could and I held on for dear life but it was kind of scary but kind of fun at the same time. Lol 😆 The owner of the horse told me that he had never seen a person ride that horse like that before.... I told him that I never rode a horse like that before. Lol 😆 I relaxed my legs and pulled gently and the horse just stopped right beside the owner... lol

[@garysmith789]

My father would never let us ride with a saddle when we were young. He was always afraid we would get hung up in stirrups and get drug. So we got to be very good at staying on no matter what.

[@CATherine001]

Foot out of stirrups is English and Dressage Each saddle stirrups have a function and purpose

[@byronbyron864]

a cowboy boot is designed to ride on the ball of your foot that's the reason for a point to toe ,,,if you were to slip off the saddle the boot would be released ,,,,,,,, Now if the boot is buried & locked on the instep it's going to be a lot harder pulling through the Stirrup,,,,,,,,. But like John Wayne says" you do what you think is right"

[@Anthony-vq1wn]

All the way in to the heel

[@aremo94]

The fact that you need to use your foot to hold on means you probably need to work on your seat. I’ve sat many a buck without stirrups

[@user-ii4zf5iq3t]

I was over at a neighbor's to round her hose up to ride. For some reason my horse started bucking. He's never done that before or since. Rattlesnake? Or touched a cactus needle, or a rock in his foot. It was a rocky hill with cactus, mesquite & cedar and rattlesnakes. I rode him all the way back to the gate and then I dove off. Her Mom had to pick gravel out, buried all in my elbow & knee. When I hit the ground my horse stopped on a dime. He put his head down and just looked at me all puzzled. "What are you doing down there"? He never did it again?? But.years later he kissed a rattlesnake. I was grown by then. They didn't think he would live. His nose swelled up so he could hardly breathe. Actually they didn't even call me about it until he lived through it.

[@Zaka_sama4393]

Had an uncle die by having his foot stuck in a stirrup on a crazy horse and it drug him away. By time they got to him he was already gone.

[@PhillipHall01]

I hit thumbs up not because I like what happened to your uncle, but I like it that you shared this story. Maybe it will help save someones' life (who has 'wisdom to hear'). Sorry you lost you Uncle. Blessings, Phillip Hall

[@jaje4866]

We're ignorant city slickers....I believe YOU know what you're talking about! Experience is the best teacher and guideline.

[@MezzoMamma1]

I have to agree. You always want to stay on that horse no matter what. Out West you fall on that hard ground you are done for. With those high healed boots I don’t think your foot will go through the stirrup.

[@catetemple311]

Sure if you fall down it can be bad, but what happens if the foot gets caught and you get dragged? That’s what’s gonna happen when you’re already setting the foot up to be dragged like this. It’s going to be a way worse fall in general, and the force of getting caught will slam you down. Then you’ll get dragged. Plus, putting your feet this far into the stirrup isn’t going to do anything. It’s not going to keep you on the horse, it’s not going to keep the stirrup on you if you’re riding badly enough that you need to hold your stirrup on your foot like this, it’s not going to do anything. It’s just going to worsen your balance, prove your level of riding skills, increase chance for large injury, or nothing at all. Like literally nothing.

[@wilmoney4619]

Great tip!

[@EmCrazy]

The reason your only supposed to have the ball of your foot in the stirrup is so if you do fall your food doesnt get cought in the stirrup and you get dragged. This happened to my sister when she was 4 luckily she was ok. If it's only the ball of your foot in the stirrup your much much much less likely to get your foot stuck

[@catetemple311]

That and using the ball of your foot actually helps with balance.

[@Foyranchhorses]

I ride with my foot out in the stirrup because I am not trying to get dragged

[@plainsarahjane1466]

I mean if you can sit the bucking seems like having your foot all the way in is safer. Me personally I know I could not sit through the bucking and I'd rather go flying but of course our situations are vastly different.

[@carolchristiansen635]

And you don’t want your foot to go through the stirrup and hang out for the drag.

[@reddraghain]

Staying up in it is ALWAYS better...no matter WHAT you might land on. So which ever stirrup or where you are comfortable placing it. But PERSONALLY, I'm with you...an always up in it kind'a gal! 'Cause...you know...consequences!

[@Roman-kk1ic]

Now if you fall on a tree out there you had it coming, lucky ass cowboy 🤠

[@AlleyCat-1]

I was on a horse that freaked out over everything when she was outside of the pasture or a pen. I lost both stirrups & 1 rein & stayed in the saddle (somehow) after she went to bucking ...

[@2ambriella]

As an English rider I partly disagree with this. We do alot of no stirrup training for a reason you should not have to relay on your stirrups or even your saddle to stay on. Also if you do come out of the saddle but your feet are still in the stirrups you can get dragged by your horse which is alot worse than just falling off.

[@unitedstatesdale]

Im surprised the NTSB hasn't mandated airbags and safety release stirrups. _wait ten years_

[@alanhorning8929]

I’d comment about this but the people that know it all would be crying about it. You do ride the right way and being smart. I think this is why they sell so many helmets now because they can’t ride

[@thatfruitygowrl]

I'm glad someone is talking about this. I always get yelled at when I go past my toes but it's uncomfortable for me to ride like that. Especially since its hard for me to get my feet back in the stirrups

[@avery3613]

Practice getting your feet in the stirrups, you don’t want to get dragged

[@thatfruitygowrl]

@@avery3613 yeah but having your feet in the stirrups makes you drag easier normally. I can get my feet back in but it takes a minute

[@avery3613]

@@thatfruitygowrl I Meant taking them in and out

[@thatfruitygowrl]

@@avery3613 oh, yeah, lol

[@oscarkelly2462]

He’s right. Playing polo I ride on balls of my feet with heels away from horse when I’m not asking them anything. To help with balance while riding but breakers I will ride feet the whole way in and toes out and long stirrups

[@MalikaTica]

Good one! Thanks.

[@jonathanbarnes16]

horses, mountains, and range life is a distant second to that content aint it

[@rodneywhitfield5754]

Your not wrong, my dad had a cutting horse he could ride with just the stirrups, leaving he’s hands free for the lariat.

[@jebediahnightlinger6357]

A lot of people getting salty about having a foot all in...every bronc rider keeps his foot all in or hits the dirt. For the rest of us, shorten your stirrups so you have more bend in your legs, when you take the weight off your foot, they come out almost too easy. Cutters ride narrow stirrups with plenty of leg bend and those horses are athletes, not trail nags. Most people are reaching for their pedals to begin with and catch a toe just trying to get off at a standstill.

[@ecoates5341]

I came to to the comments to read what all the professionals had to say. I say: To each their own.

[@debbiedouglas6541]

Always heard to ride with just the toe in stirrups. That way if you fell off you could get you foot out and not be dragged down the road. Then again what do I know?

[@avery3613]

It’s better with the ball of the foot for biomechanic reasons, but it also depends on the rest of your position. But yes, an emergency dismount or even hitting the dirt is better than being dragged

[@triquetrawitch3002]

Good wisdom🎉❤

[@gilbertb8078]

Taught the same.Its a long walk if horse bucks you off.

[@nancyhowell4505]

I always heard keep heels down securely so your foot can't slip through the stirrup and have you trapped, helpless if the horse freaks out. You can die that way. 😲

[@theothegreygelding]

Ok this all makes sense for western. But I think with English it’s best to stick with keeping stirrups at the ball of your foot. Just because it’s easier to lift yourself out of the saddle for posting, two point, and half seat. But with western you don’t really do that, so it’s not as much of a necessity to keep your stirrups at the ball of your foot.

[@terryallen9546]

I'm finally immune to getting bucked off, dragged, sunburned, bit, and thirsty.

[@catetemple311]

Not the dragged part.

[@maralyngray6472]

enjoy your videos and you sound just like we do in Saskatchewan