[Music] foreign [Music] really reminds me of when I was younger and coming for raising lessons but I’ve not been on a horse in a very long time so I’m interested to see how technology is helping people who are learning to ride a horse today time to get back on the saddle I guess here at Scotland’s rural College have really embraced new tech and by doing so it’s hoped it can benefit the Riders as well as the horses [Music] meet Penny who helped me demonstrate okay let’s go [Music] first up there are smart Rings they tell me how much pressure I’m putting on Penny as she walks so what we’re using here on this horse is a rain pressure sensor there’s a little box that sits on the top of the horse’s head and it has two lights that will indicate your left ring and your right ring so if you take any kind of pressure on either rain or both rains the color will change purple indicates low pressure and blue and red show medium and high pressure they maybe have a problem where they have maybe one rain a little bit too higher than the other or one a bit shorter than the other it can really help them to make those adjustments themselves rather than instructors sort of having to tell them all the time I’ve also tried on the biomechanic jacket which helps me get my posture right and makes it more comfortable for Penny too initially we look for a straight line from the Shoulder Through The Hip down to the rider’s heel when they’re on the horse we also look for a nice straight line from the relaxed shoulder and then a line from the rider’s elbow through the hand and right down through the rain to the horse’s bit anything different than that you can restrict the way the horse is going and it can make it quite uncomfortable for the horse and sort of stops them from traveling forward and so how are you monitoring that using these fluorescent lines so what we do is we use a robot camera it tracks the rider no matter where they go in the arena and it will zoom in and out automatically so we’ll record the riders in a variety of places so in the walk and the Trot and the Canter and then they can review and their their riding position afterwards discuss it with their instructor and then they can see maybe what is really good and What needs improving and you’re also using camera technology to connect with the smart watch which I had on earlier as well whichever Rider is wearing the smart watch the camera will track that Rider and wherever they are in the arena and then again is it the same thing they’re looking for the posture they’re looking for the technique they’re kind of picking up anything that maybe would be difficult to pick up otherwise yeah yeah we are we’re always looking for that visual aspect and if you’ve got any riders that maybe come along that maybe have an auditory processing disorder um or mem or memory disorder because it makes it visual it makes it really inclusive for those learners and finally we have the pressure mat this mat sits underneath the horse’s saddle and we can use it to help learn about saddle fitting initially but also it’s great for um detecting any abnormalities position and that pressure map will pick that up and then it transmits data to an iPad we can record them as they’re riding in walk Trot or Canter and then they can see there and then what color changes happen and obviously if they’re sitting to one side it makes the horse unbalanced and all for the welfare of the horses and to improve their riding [Music] not only are the pieces of tech making horse riding more accessible and teaching our equestrian enthusiasts how to ride they have some other benefits too last year I was a very nervous Rider and actually having everything there made me focus on everything and born about the horse no matter what horse I’ve been given these four bits of tech being used together means students here are getting the most modern way of learning in an industry which has been steeped in Tradition and it looks like the college has their eyes on more tech for the future too [Music]
