Ultimate shoulder rides

Hi, all

As far as I know there are no rules for shoulder-riding, as regards how to give orders to the mount whenever the rider wishes to change gait, or speed, or direction etc ... Generally, the rider tells Her/his horse what he has to do ... That's fine for friendly shoulder-rides, but not really satisfying in BDSM rides, where a good part of the fun comes from a well played rider/horse relationship, based on the use of reins, knees, spurs etc, not on vocal instructions.   

I've uploaded (on Rapidshare again), a set of rules which gives the  "how to" for most usual orders to be given to a horse. It also gives the rules of a dressage game, which allows to compete between riders, either with different mounts, or with one single horse being used in turn by all riders. Those rules are not so easy to implement, neither for the rider nor for the mount, which really increases the fun of the ride for both parties ... Try them and tell me !

It gives also a handicap system, which tries to make up for the different weights of the different competitors, thus giving the same chances to a female mount of 50 kilos carrying a 80 kg male rider, versus a 80 kg ridee carrying a 50 kg rider ...

These rules work fine for dressage competitions "on all four". They are more tricky when applied to shoulder-rides, because, in a dressage competition, the mount has to be blindfolded, which could make the two-legged ride a bit risky... But the blindfold could be replaced by some device which would allow the horse to see, say, one meter at most ahead of his feet, and not further. 

Here is the url :

http://rapidshare.com/files/155841355/Human_mounts_ … The_rules.doc 

I would be delighted if you guys try it, and give feedback to this forum, both positive and negative !!!

Equidum