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Your comment about making a horse great - what makes you think they aren't great already? That just getting up in the morning doesn't make them great? That they aren't only great when they finally submit to extreme unnatural physical feats under your rule?

bridleless ist so wonderful ... thank YOU ... 🐎🙏❤️🍀🌟

love u for this

That horse looked so happy and relaxed while doing it. I don’t know why more people don’t ride like this.

Which metering mode do you use?

This video is great. I love your ability to listen to your horse, to give him time to feel ready before demanding the impossible. Patience, open mind and open heart are all so important with horses.

He's a beauty 💥

I'm surprised she can get away w/ going bridleless in competition. There's usually some stupid rule against it...

At least her parents helped her. Mine were too greedy & selfish...😠

BRAVO we need more people to give up bits... I used to ride my mare bareback and bridleless .... miss that connection

Congratulations for you and your best friend Vlad...I have been such an advocate of bridel and bitless..jumping and dressage..for years those judges need to come into the future about this method...free style means free of bits and bridles..and it can be done , Lynn Palm ON RUGGED LARK DID IT back in the 80's ..he was all body language trained..he won AQHA super horse 2x ...he was magnificent.....I hope all the best for you Melanie and beautiful boy Vlad...

And a lost stirrup!

Wonderful story, just goes to show ppl that all bits belong in the TRASH, you don't need them if you can ride and train like she can

Why is she flinging and flailing all over the place unbalanced??? Nice horse to tolerate that.

I’m not sure what the point of riding bridleless is. Just that the rider has bad hands? So they rely on hanging on with a strap around their necks? So they don’t hang onto the mouth or get left behind at jumps? I had a cheap non descriptive grade mare when I was about 15 years old. She loved jumping so much she would easily do this over courses, inside and out. This was long before everyone in the world had cameras and go-pros. This little mare would jump over 5 1/2 feet fences with no wings or ground poles. No bridle or tack of any kind. She was ordinary looking. Would never win a conformation class. This was in the late 1960s. No one oohed and ahhhed like I was doing something unprecedented or miraculous. Nowadays if it’s on film you are glorified and celebrated. This was standard riding in my day. Just to have fun.

Beautiful story - you should be very proud of yourself and this wonderful horse - you have done a great thing!!

If didn’t notice that part the horse nearly ran into the wall you should go back and see it!! If you don’t think that you put you and horse and everyone else at risk you need to get professional help!!!! Riding Without a bridle needs to be done in an enclosed area away from others !!! Never where there are other horses, children, adults and pets and property!!!!!

Just yesterday I posted my thoughts that they should hold a bitless competition for true horsewomen and men. And here you'v gone so much further!! Awesome!!! So beautiful knowing that your horse is happy!

Time is key, which is why people who trat their horse as sport tools will not even bother with this. Sad as it is. If someone can make an unruly/stubborn and know-it-better horse jump and gallop in pattern effortlessly, the 'big people' out there have no excuse to hold onto their idiotic bits with the excuse of having no control. I actually find it much better and advanced in any way when it is the horse who needs to calculate the strides and make things work together with their rider. (That would make the horse more valuable too, since it does not only have maschine-like obedience going for it they can pass onto foals.) That's what riding should be all about; teamwork to accomplish something, be that clearing an obstacle or prancing around in a pretty manner. Not just the horse being a live tool. It's much more interesting to watch these two than any of the filth we so often see with FEI. Hopefully this'll become more common and find it's way into other sports. Given bits hinder the horse's breathing at a certain pace, I think many sports would profit from this or at least using bitless bridles. If time wasn't such an important factor, I'm sure this method of riding would be more popular. Such a shame.

I'd rather my horse refuse a jump due to poor striding, than be so dull as to throw himself into a jump anyway just because he's been drilled to jump whatever is put in front of him. Losing a competition is always preferable to injury or death. Mistakes happen, and he knows when its not right.

I’m so thrilled that they let her compete without a bridle! I think she and Vlad did really well. I have been strongly wishing for several years that there were bitless, bridleless, shoeless, and bareback, divisions at horse shows and equestrian competitions. I hope this is the way things are headed. I can’t watch high level dressage anymore. To see a horse’s head and neck tucked up so tight, 2 bits in a mouth strapped shut, saliva foam pouring down, just isn’t pretty.

She clearly has minimal control of the horse with no bit/bridle. she constantly, while jumping, have to fling the rein repeatedly up to the throatlatch area to gain ANY control of the horse at all. any horses neck muscles are way stronger than any riders arms, and if a horse gets too hot/excited or spooks n bolts, this could b a disaster, could knock her off in a ring or on a trail ride, bolt into traffic and cause an accident/injury/death to herself, the horse and other drivers/pedestrians, etc. not effective, not smart and downright dangerous.

Pathetic rider in 1,10 h , imagine in 1,60...jajaja

That’s my kind of show jumping!!! Kudos to her!!!

Thank you for reiterating that TIME is crucial in achieving this form of riding. Time spent with your horse to achieve this level of training, trust and everything in between. Great educational content. Hopefully more and more people will have this attitude, outlook as well as encourage people to have the same outlook in all that’s in this video. Cheers🐴👍🐴

What lens do you use for horses? If you photograph the head/neck vs whole body do you use the same lens?

I’m struggling with the gradient tool. It won’t fade down past the rectangular box of black. It’s only staying within the box. What am I doing wrong?

This just goes to show what horse can be like with have their body posture and head set deducted by their own body instead by constraints and bits. When we stop knowingly and unknowingly cruelly brutalizing their mouths, feet, mind and bodies will be a great day for horses. They really want to like you and make you happy!

Thank you for sharing this!

Love this thank you

amazing tutorial but I have one question how do you edit a horses eye if the eyelashes cover where the reflection is. rn it just looks super creepy and all i have done is farken the dark and lighten the lights.

Thank you so much for this, I really appreciate you sharing for others to learn. If I may ask, how are your images so detailed and crisp. I often am not able to get the horse hair that detailed, when I zoom in on my images they are often soft.

I’ve ridden my horse completely tackless but this has inspired me to try bridless jumping with Calypso 😊

To all those armchair experts, who are criticising this rider please post a video of you doing it right, before you speak!

I am more impressed by her and what she has accomplished with Vlad than I am with someone using a bridle on a horse. Going bridles shows the truth in the horse/rider relationship for sure! Not everyone can get to this stage, it’s a high level talent to ride with only a neck rope especially with a difficult horse like Vlad. Kudos to you, Melanie!!

Love it!! Thank you xx

Im about to lose my mind with part of this. LOL I am not on a Mac so perhaps this is the issue? When I use the rectangular tool to make the black box, I cannot get the gradient tool to work to smooth the transition lines. I cant figure out whats happening.... Im using windows.

So impressed with you and your awesome attitude.... which helps us all with animals and humans alike.

Im having trouble with the gradient it keeps turning gray ?

Usually. Stables have windows in the stalls .the end photos look dark and sad

If you take sales photos of horses, would love to see a tutorial on that!

hii, quick question, im really struggling with the settings of the camera. Can I ask which u used?

Interested to know why you didn’t try a bitless/hackmore? Sometimes it looks like having a little control in where he looks you wouldn’t have as many stops or naughty moments, but genuinely curious.

Very cool! Thank you so much

i’m watching all your videos now. they are SO helpful for a photographer starting out!

He is a very pretty horse! Is he like a very dark brown horse or is he black?

great video thank you so much

That pony is so cute!

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love her!

I hope there will be more TH-cam Videos from you!!!