In our study, each actor interacts at every moment of the training session with his or her social environment (riders, instructors, road users…) and physical environment (motorcycle, infrastructure, obstacle…).
This will allow you to come into contact with a greater range of riders, instructors and other professionals.
Have an experienced rider or instructor available when first trying half-halts so they can help you with any questions.
If possible, consider having an experienced rider or instructor lunge your horse for you while you are mounted (in other words, the horse should travel in a circle around the other person at the end of a lunge line while you ride it).
Audiovisual recordings and interview data of the rider and instructors were collected at each session.
During each of the trainee's riding session, audio-visual recordings of the rider's and instructor's behaviours were made and data on the participants' verbal data during and after the training sessions were collected.
Audio-visual data on the rider's and instructor's behaviours were continuously recorded during each session by an "external" camera carried by a researcher (on the track in the case of track training and in the instructor's following car in the case of road training) [38].
These were, on one hand, the data collected during the riding sessions (audio-visual recordings of the rider's and instructor's behaviours, and the actors' verbal data during training, i.e. 38 h of recordings) and on the other hand, the verbal data collected after the riding sessions, by interviews (i.e. 47 h of recordings).
She added that she appreciated the personal touch of the KiwiSweat experience, including mini-chalkboards on bikes with the names of the riders, so the instructor could single out participants, and individualized cubbies with locks.
If you're an inexperienced rider, always ask your instructor or another experienced rider to give you a safety check before riding.
