Thursday Video: The Ultimate Bareback Mount

Can your horse do this? Or perhaps a better question — can your hips handle this?

It’s generally a good idea for the health of your horse’s back to mount from a mounting block when you can (if you’d like some video proof, check out this ultra-slow-mo capture of the torque on a horse’s back when mounting from the ground.) When you ride bareback, you have a few options: either perfect your swinging vault onto your horse’s back, or use a block, gate, wall or other structure.

But if you’re the kind of rider who’s bored by those two options, rest easy, because this creative rider has figured out yet another method for mounting bareback.

Impressive! And not just the horsemanship, but standing casually on those two barrels like nobody’s business. Are you up to the challenge, Horse Nation?

Go riding!