this is such a great video and I love it. I'm a member of westernaires and it drives me up a wall when people tell me it's not hard and the horse does all the work. Ugh I show this video to people who disagree with me.

@maryshannon1006

6 жыл бұрын

I rode with a drill team,it's not a breeze by a long shot!Rein your horse,keep looking out for others,space just right.Anyone that thinks it's a piece of cake,give it a try!!Good luck.

thanks for posting this! many people outside of the horse industry (and some in) have no clue what drill is all about. This video shows it! Awesome team!

Equestrian drill! Nothing compares! Definitely a sport, for those with heart and the courage to dare!

Amazing! Some3one had to say it! I started riding with drill when i had just turned 12 and it was one of my best decisions i have ever made. It helped me bond with a new horse, and new people. Honestly if I didn’t have horses in my life I would’ve been in some very bad situations. Drill even helped with my jumping! I used a new horse when i started that hadn’t been worked in years and helped him to get fit and work better with me! If someone ever said you’re just sitting there, i would probably never talk to them again.

It is SO hard! Especially if you have a lazy horse, or a horse that is being retrained, or a teammate who is having difficulties. But you have to get through it as a team, both as a horse and rider team, and a team with everyone else in the arena.

THIS VIDEO. WAS EPIC. (made me chill XD) AND YOU ARE RIGHT. It is hard...

A sport were you rest your life with your 15 team mates as well as there horses and your own. This is such an amazing video!! Made my heart beat faster as I seen you guys preform the sweep, my favorite move!! Good job and keel up the good work!

i nearly cried because this was just so beautiful.

Not to mention the risk of horses colliding and either panicking or deciding to fight.

Everytime u sit on a horse u are face to face with death itself and its ur will and skill that keeps u from it

I was involved in drill for over 10 years with my wife and sister and her daughter. It takes good horsemanship and a good horse to be safe. I did the music and the video for the team. Our team carried flags so the horses had to be finished enough to neck rein. It can be dangerous for both rider and horse. We traveled out of state for competitions did local rodeos and our own state competition. The team practiced twice a week. Those horse put on many many miles in a season. Counting on teammates to be where they are suppose to be just adds to the fun and excitement of clean runs. They were state champions several years and we make many many good friends over the years.

This is awesome, I'm in drill team I the youngest but the leader. Last year we had a horse try to bolt and jump the fence to get out but we held strong and won 1st in finals. The video is correct about holding the flag with 15 other people. Let me put it this way the oldest girl on my team was 17. I'm only 12 and the leader. The groups are made based of speed and communication. We had three 19 year old horse and a 20 year old. While I was on a 4 year old. The reason we won is because during our last show my horse slipped and fell with me on her. She laid there and I acted like it was our job. Then she stood up and I got back on. We got back in the lead and just in time. We had two people in English saddles so they could jump and I was one. So we got to our jump and made it. Our team won do to out team work and passion for riding. But then I was told that my horse was stupid for falling ad that it was super easy. I let them ride after with my team and they had to jump. They relied on my horses neck and fell off during they jump. Now they don't bother me and I have been known as they "Girl whom rose up".

Did drill team work from 1968 to 1976! I loved it and it WAS HARD WORK!!! This was a perfect example to those that don't understand! Thank you for sharing! 🐴🇺🇸❤

drill is like escaramuzas from Mexico, absolutely perfect

This is amazing!! Riding with 12-16 members in one drill us crazy!! Awesome job looks great :) - rider on the cariboo cowgirls drill team in Williams lake B.C Canada

Thank you! We are members of the Westernaires in Golden CO - our members range from 10 - 18 yrs of age. It is definitely a sport! It takes so much work to do this! Great job!

i jump horses and it it nothing close to the danger that these athletes are putting themselves in.

@sierrajade4587

7 жыл бұрын

Ania Archblanket That's true, but I think Flynn's point was that on a drill team, you're doing maneuvers that could very easily result in a collision at a high rate of speed.

@mckennabokhoven7566

6 жыл бұрын

Honestly I think jumping is way more dangerous than this

@kaylarae1362

6 жыл бұрын

Dapple_grey_breyer 102 Try it and then talk 😉

@kaylarae1362

6 жыл бұрын

Dapple_grey_breyer 102 Once, two girls went into a collision and one of the horses and one girl broke a bunch of bones. Her horse died as well from the impact

@mckennabokhoven7566

6 жыл бұрын

That One Equestrian yes but once a girls horse took a short spot and flipped over on top of her. The girl was in the hospital for nearly a year and the horse died from a broken spine.

I love this sooo much, hardly anyone knows of drill anymore o: I love this video a lot!! Drill is my passion

EXCELLENT! Cant compare it to any other drill team video I have seen! You all are simply AMAZING the BEST!!!

This is what it looks like when you have an arena full of riders Horse Dance

I'm sorry, but I've never had someone tell me drill team isn't a sport. A girl on my team did say we were boring, though. Saturday I got slung headfirst into a steel post going 20. Which is funny because prior to that run, the girl I mentioned before said she was gonna scream in the middle of the eight, because "people want to see action" and apparently it's not exciting enough without screaming. Well, I sure as hell made it exciting.

Your maneuvers are excellently executed. Well done!!

Amen! And WOW what an awesome drill team!!!!

I have drill in about a hour I love watching videos like this to pump me up it's definetly a sport :)!!

I love this so much!!!

No other sport makes you control a fifteen hand unpredictable monster that could easily kill you just by the way your sitting, no other sport needs you to have so much balance and coordination that you can put your life on a bouncy roller-coaster without looking at the track in head, steering it and if you forget to stay in the right position then something terrible will happen, and there is no safety stuff. That rollercoaster also has a mind of its own and if it doesn't want to listen, it throws you off and breaks your neck. If you ride, you are lucky if you only break your leg, foot and arm. In football, you aren't lucky if you trip and don't break anything.

Holy free holy!! For years I've always wondered what you do in a drill team and you answered my question in a 2 minute video

Not even just a drill... but all equestrian things... jumping... barrels... pole bending... etc

Miss my drill, thank you so much for this fantastic video!!

People never really think about how hard it is

And this is why I love drill. Did it all 4 years of high school, and now I'm going to coach it. Can't wait(:

Amen to that!!! I am on a drill team too!!! I love it!!!!!:)

I do drill riding in a team called the westernaires, we go fast

This is amazing!!!! Great work, but Drill team is not the only kind of riding that is hard! No hate! Lovely riders!

Awesome! Telegraph Trail Riders have some teachers!

this was a PERFECT video of everything it is to do drill team. i am with Lady Cadence and we had a rough start but we will keep going! also, what team is this? THEY LOOK AMAZING!!!

What an amazing video!!!

this looks like a blast - i event and foxhunt and this scares me your are supper brave!

i understand i am the leader of a drill team :)

I have to watch this cause I am doing a drill on friday

Thank you very much! It is crazy, especially when they are only 12-18 years old...

I watch this video all the time but what is the song it is really frustrating that I don't know

AMAZING

Would love to see some other teams other than the Rangers. But all very true!!

I didn't even know that this equestrian sport existed! I was just looking at showjumping and this popped up so I was curious and oh my god! A suicide charge indeed! I was freaking out just watching this! I can't even think about doing that myself!

@kaylarae1362

7 жыл бұрын

Mercury Schmidt It's quite fun!

@jarlofpropane5368

6 жыл бұрын

This is very fun to do! I've done this for almost 4 years now and it's amazing. Takes a lot of practice and effort but it's definitely worth it!!

Why is this the first video I’ve seen about that fact that mounted drill team is a sport?

Dare you to try it and say that. Lol!!!

I want to start drill with my boy. Any idea where I could find a team in minneaota?

@ruthlesspistol1315

7 жыл бұрын

Find out if there are any drill team competitions in your state, go to it, and meet with some of the coach's and see how close to you any of them are. All though, if there is one team in particular you like, and it's a good ways away, like, an hour, it might be worth it. my drill team is in griffin ga and we have riders that are from coweta county, which is at least a hour away...and one of my other teamates and I live about 45 minutes from our coach's house, where we practice. He has his own arena at his house. Hope this helps, or another option is you could probably look up mounted drill teams in Minnesota. :)

what is this song called?

@ruthlesspistol1315

7 жыл бұрын

All Or Nothing by Brand X Music.

Drill team is hard, but not the hardest sport. The hardest sport is XC, Dressage, Stadium Jumping, THEN its drill team. And most of this is talking about all equine disciplines.

Im young but i love horse riding im 9 and next the next years i want to be in a parade and a rodeo and they say its not a sport and im too young

@vavache1198

7 жыл бұрын

Every one thats read this coment is beautiful and nice and have a great day please say that im not too young for horse back riding and like if not too young im nine years old

@kaylarae1362

7 жыл бұрын

van morton you're never too young :) I've been around horses since I wasn't even a year old. They changed my life and I love them for it! My opinion is that it's a lot more challenging when your young since most of the time, you're not gonna have much leg muscle. I sure didn't 😂 Follow your dreams! Go be in a parade and go be in a rodeo! Don't pay attention for the haters! They're not worth your time!

@s.eimers16

7 жыл бұрын

van morton Never let ANYbody tell you that you can't do ANYTHING. They are trying to pigeonhole hole you within the confines of their limited thinking. That person's opinion is external to you & what you believe about yourself. You are never too young to ride. And I'm sure you know this, there's no known cure for horse fever, but you can manage it by spending all the time you can around horses 😉.

more work than sitting on a bike.

The yellow shirts are rangers :)

@kaylarae1362

6 жыл бұрын

CanterThis my moms team went against them I believe. At the Reno rodeo

Great video except.... what about regular riding? Lol

NOT A SPORT

@kaylarae1362

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao, I'd love to see you try and ride my horse in drill. Your body would feel like jelly 🤷‍♀️

its a sport

@oliveandbonnie1225

9 жыл бұрын

really now then u control a 1200 animal to not mske it KILL u

Lmao it’s not that hard you just sit on a horse and direct it the way you want lmao there is no cool tricks here

@momtaylor3169

2 жыл бұрын

oh rly? try riding a pattern like this, and, if its so easy, try riding the lope and memorizing the pattern in, say, three weeks. not to mention riding one-handed, carrying a flag, watching the other ppl, keeping a certain speed, staying even with the rest of the team, not messing up, and THEN tell me its easy and not hard and you just sit up there and tell them where to go. cause guess what? the horse might not listen, they are capable of ignoring the rider and even bolting and bucking you off. i DARE you, try joining a drill team. other than the possibility of hurting yourself, it hurts your WALLET too. i bet your from the city.