BRIDLELESS SHOW JUMPING! Melanie Ferrio-Wise and Unbridled Wings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.พ. 2018
- Melanie and Vlad are the first pair to ever compete BRIDLELESS at an international completion. They’re story is incredible and watching this pair work together is sure to inspire!
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I love that she rides bridleless, but even more wonderful is her attitude. Give it time. Be patient, kind and try to understand your animal.
She is absolutely amazing! I love her philosophy on training and her bond with Vlad is incredible
bridleless ist so wonderful ... thank YOU ... 🐎🙏❤️🍀🌟
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!!
Well said! I agree!! The less tack the more the true horse’s talents and the true rider’s talents show through. It’s very exciting and beautiful to watch.
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.
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!
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🐴👍🐴
oh my god that's so much beautiful...Thank you for your great relationship with horses.
BRAVO we need more people to give up bits... I used to ride my mare bareback and bridleless .... miss that connection
4:25 thank you for this ❣️
That’s my kind of show jumping!!! Kudos to her!!!
To all those armchair experts, who are criticising this rider please post a video of you doing it right, before you speak!
This reminds me of my girl SO much and this gives me so much hope❤️
Beautiful story - you should be very proud of yourself and this wonderful horse - you have done a great thing!!
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love her!
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!
I agree! The horse knows his body better than we ever will, and when they arent restrained or forced into what we think is "correct" head position, less accidents happen.
So impressed with you and your awesome attitude.... which helps us all with animals and humans alike.
That horse looked so happy and relaxed while doing it. I don’t know why more people don’t ride like this.
I’ve ridden my horse completely tackless but this has inspired me to try bridless jumping with Calypso 😊
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...
love u for this
He's a beauty 💥
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.
For me it is because I'd like to have a relationship based less on control and more on understanding.
@@cl1584it’s whole different ballgame, and one so much more interesting to me.
And a lost stirrup!
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.
What would make dressage interesting to the general public...would be brideless. It looks like magic, but it is impossible without putting in the time.
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
He is a very pretty horse! Is he like a very dark brown horse or is he black?
I absolutely love that she’s doing neckrope riding however she does put the neckrope to high closing the horses throat unfortunately:(
She’s not really, you can see in some of the footage that it is high, but you can also see how little pressure she has on him.
Also don’t be so dang negative
@@onlyimaginaryyYES!! Love this comment. 🙌🐴👌
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.
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?
At least her parents helped her. Mine were too greedy & selfish...😠
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.
I'm surprised she can get away w/ going bridleless in competition. There's usually some stupid rule against it...
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!!!!!
Why is she flinging and flailing all over the place unbalanced??? Nice horse to tolerate that.
Seemed to be related to her needing to change the position of the neckstrap a lot. She isn't doing anything like that riding him bareback without worrying about distance to jumps.
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.
maybe you've never had such a close bond with a horse before, but some people know their horse well enough, and have desensitized them enough, that they can trust them without needing total control
oh ive had plenty of horses; and trust only goes so far when it coming to riding a 1200 lb PREY animal, they have a prey brain dont forget, they are genetically programmed to become suddenly afraid of things, and bolt! so trust becomes a very thin layer of protection when it comes to fear and stubbornness in a lg animal that suddenly realizes it can do whatever it wants. @@natalya402
@@Lauren-vd4qe You DO know tho that yanking on a bit will not necessarily give you control, right? What kinda dumb arguement is that even? XD
Have you SEEN all the compilations of idiotic riders thinking holding onto the horse's mouth will do them any good? Besides, if the horse spooks, it's preferably they do not have long reins they can get tangled up in and fall badly.
Ultimately it's up to YOU as the rider to prevent disasters. Not putting them into dangerous situations when they are not perfectly desensitized and trained is one of those responsibilities you have. A well trained horse will rarely if ever bolt and not every spooked horse will run away, that's also just the untrained/barely trained ones.
I find it rather telling you focus on the 'no control without a bit' aspect in a video that's supposed to show that bits are unnecessary. Kinda smells like all the other people who are against progress and focus on this same topic with the same excuses as to why using bits is good/important.
And tbh: I find it hard to believe you've had a trusting bond with a horse before given all the things you said so far. Either that or your idea of 'trust' is not really what everybody else understands as such.
enjoy your equine crash coming soon@@Managable_Mayhem
I’m sorry to hit on you in particular. It’s not personal, but you have susinctly put over the oldest argument for control, over a bonded partnership. Your main argument for the “control” of the bit fails by just how many accidents, involving horses bolting through fear and flight from pain are the result of ignorance and ignorant bitting. To ride under stress (and is what completions are for) with some success and without a bridle, displays a degree of horsemanship, tact, patience, and empathy that is beyond most riders . And I include myself in that. We need to understand the riding as we know it, has evolved directly from the use of the horse in warfare. A situation where the horse, although valuable, is disposable, an “asset” that must be broken and or trained and “desensitised “ ( how I hate the use of that word.) within the minimum time and for the use of troops with a minimum training, in situations that are in total disregard of all their natural instincts. This historical and cultural dogma has resulted in ever greater cruelty in the design and unthinking use of modern bitting, especially for competition. To ride effectively without bridle and or saddle requires balance and a strength of two way communication and trust from both horse and rider that we should all aspire to. Sure, she’s not perfect, but as she says she is relying on ( lots of) natural talent and no proper training. As yet, this new concept of horsemanship has not been properly explored, analysed and understood for it to have become a school of riding. I hope that day will come soon. The closest that we have thus far are some of the indigenous American styles of riding, as well as, strange as it may seem some of the great Classical riding trainers from Portugal and Spain. Unfortunately they also produce many very bad ones too!
Pathetic rider in 1,10 h , imagine in 1,60...jajaja
What does her level of jumps have to do with anything, you sad little clown?
Stop trying to make fun of others if all you want is badmouth someone for not being a higher level yet. THAT is pathetic, not her riding.
Do better.
She did more without a bit than most people can, and more than many people can who are using a bit . Doesn't matter that the jumps weren't higher.
@@jewelweed6880 Well said.
Who cares about jumping higher and higher and higher? Bridle or no, that's a stupid philosophy. I'd rather they capped the height at something reasonable.