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The english style, you have one rein in each hand. In the old days, your left hand would hold a rein and your shield, and your right hand would hold a rein and your lance.
The normal way, you hold both reins in your left hand, and your right hand is free. The advantage to this is people who don't know what they're doing can hang on to the horn, and people who do can do what ever they're trying to get done, because they have a hand free to shoot, rope, or help out the guy who doesn't know what he's doing.
Also I think in English style the only thing you ever do with your feet is tell the horse to go faster, whereas the normal way you also use your feet to indicate direction to the horse.
English riding is what those folks do who do those stupid shows where they have their horses hop over things, and wear those weird helmets. People who ride normal wear normal hats. People who ride normal really well do rodeos, in theory, but I haven't seen a really good rodeo since I was in Montana so probably most of the internet never has. It doesn't seem to be that common any more. I remember when I worked at a summer camp this last summer, I had kids that had never rode a horse before. Not young kids either, teenagers. I know everybody's got cars and trucks these days, especially in rich places, but damn.
Also I didn't really have a good picture of Vigo that didn't have a bunch of other folks who might not care to be posted on tgchan, but here's one I've cropped. I was keeping him on a pretty short rein that trip because he really wanted to play around and run, but everyone else was being slow and lazy, and I sort of had to be making sure other people were okay. Not sure why he's in as tight as he is in this picture, though. I think I was falling back into a line.
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