What this episode is all about & how it can help you:- Understand the difference between being influenced and doing the influencing Being able to ‘roll’ with the canter first How feeling the reach of your seat is the start of understanding your influence The part your legs and hands play What happens when you get into canter with your…
Have you noticed how, very often, there are only two ‘gears’ when trotting; a good, forward trot or a bland, shuffle trot? However changing from the latter to the former can often be one of the more difficult aspects of trotting. If so, have you ever considered using the canter to improve the trot? Sounds too good to be true,…
So you turn the corner and ask your horse lengthen the stride in canter a little but instead of covering more ground with each passing stride, it feels like his legs have begun to move nineteen to the dozen. Flash backs to pony riding are flying through your brain, the rushing and racing gets more intense with each passing stride… The result is…
You have finally managed to truly be able to dictate what lead your horse strikes off with in canter each time. The shouts of ‘Wrong Leg’ following you around the arena are a thing of the past… However, now everything you have learned is being turned a little on its head when you realise that sometimes, you can indeed canter on…
Think back to the last time you were cantering along on your horse and a change of rein was coming up. You began the task of preparing to drop back a gear into trot to change the canter lead; better than losing rhythm and balance through a flying change. However before you even got there, your horse (being the clever…
Do you find that when asking your horse for canter, you tend to ‘over do’ some aspects of your aids? Perhaps you throw your reins at your horse, or you try to ‘push’ too much with your seat or upper body… You are shoving and bumping about in the saddle and when your horse eventually ‘strikes’ the canter, you are…
