How to Get Your Horse Active in the Canter
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Creating jump in the canter is an essential prerequisite to nearly all the canter movements such as pirouettes and flying changes. If you want to work on any of those movements, you need to first work on collection and achieving a nice active, jumping canter.
In this week’s video, I will give you a few tips to help you get your horse’s canter active and jumping. But, before we get into the tips, I wanted to remind you about my Free webinar on Pirouettes that’s happening on March 3rd at 12:00noon PT. We’ll be covering walk pirouettes up to canter pirouettes, how to begin introducing them, exercises you can work on to improve them, and more!
Okay, back to the tips. Firstly, let’s talk about the aids for achieving activity and jump in the canter. When we’re working on developing an active, jumping canter, we want to think about:
· Using our legs - When you are in the canter and want to use your leg, make sure that you use it in canter position (inside leg at the girth, outside leg behind the girth). If you have a lazy horse, give a quick leg aid to help them quicken their stride and get more jump.
· Following with our seat - After you give your leg aid to send your horse forward, it’s super important that you are ready to follow with your seat. Remember, your seat is the translator and if you don’t follow with your seat, then it makes it harder for your horse to come through with their hind end.
· Half-halts - As you are following with your seat, you then want to give a few half-halts to get your horse to collect back on their hind end. While we do want them to be more forward, we want more jump in the canter, and your half-halts are what help to balance the forward energy back on the hind leg to create that active jumping canter.
So in summary, to create activity in the canter, we first want to use our leg to add energy, then our seat to follow the swing, and lastly our rein to half-halt and bring the energy back to the hind end. A great exercise to help you work on this is working on a little forward and back within gait. Try sending your horse forward for five strides, and then half-halting to bring them back for five strides, then forward for five strides, and collect for five strides, etc.
Another great exercise to help you start working on collection and getting more activity in the canter is walk-canter transitions. Walk-canter transitions are a prerequisite to nearly all the canter movements such as flying changes because they introduce collection to your horse and also because the aids for walk-canter are the foundation for those higher-level movements. Therefore, as a Dressage rider, it’s important to practice millions of these transitions! As you practice, really focus on feeling the hind end come through behind the saddle and having your first stride in the transition be a nice active canter stride.
I hope these tips help you work on getting your horse’s canter more active! Let me know in the comments below if you enjoyed these tips!
Happy Riding!
Amelia
00:00 Introduction/Importance of Activity
01:16 The Aids to Get Activity
03:36 Rubber Band Exercise for Activity
05:46 Walk-Canter for Activity
09:47 Outro
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I always benefit from Amelia's helpful tips before I ride or take a lesson. Amelia gives me more confidence that what appears to be IMPOSSIBLE is really POSSIBLE, ONE STEP AT A TIME! THANK YOU AMELIA! PS, I used to quote Amelia to my trainer, Riley when she was here in NJ. "Well Amelia says..." Riley says she speaks to Amelia. Small world!
Probably my favorite video that you’ve done so far. Thank you for breaking down what the aids are, what goes wrong and what to do when it goes wrong. I think that’s the biggest thing. Most of us struggle with is what do we do when our attempts fail, the unknown keeps us from trying new things sometimes or we just give up when it’s not working because we assume we messed it up.
@AmeliaNewcombDressage
4 ай бұрын
So happy you enjoyed it! Would love to see you at my Free Pirouettes Webinar this weekend! amelianewcombdressage.com/free-pirouette-webinar/
This is very helpful. I’ve been working on the broken line at the canter and while we can do it, we lose impulsion as we make the arc over X.
i have been working on this with my little mare. it was great to see the aids, exercises and results demonstrated in the video . now i can work on these transitions more clearly and concisely
Very helpful. I often ignore my own instincts since I’m not sure which ones are helpful. Thank you!😊
My mare does a great walk to canter transition, cantering is her favorite gait. Now that I've been leasing her for about a year I'm ready to start fine tuning some of our transitions and becoming more nuanced. She comes from a jumping background and we've only done flat work so far, as she's gotten used to a new job and coming to the bit rather than the bit coming to her. I just told my trainer last week I want to work on collecting the canter and doing more than just getting it and riding along and keeping it. So this video was timely. I like the lengthen and collect exercise, I actually just tried to do a bit of that when I hacked yesterday, giving little half halts to keep the integrity of the nice canter without her getting strung out. Like Mercurio, she also anticipates the change to a faster gait and gets excited. She's not as eager to change to a slower gait, though she's a million times better going to a walk from a canter than she was a year ago. It would take 10 mins to get her to give a relaxed walk after the canter. Now she knows it's not the last time she'll ever canter in her life if she lets it go and takes a walk break! 😁😁🥰🥰
Great video. It helped a lot ❤
Way above my riding skill, but it's good to know.
very helpful!
@AmeliaNewcombDressage
26 күн бұрын
Glad you think so!
So good to watch, especially when Mercurio anticipated and you showed how to deal with it. I like the way you talk out loud when you are doing something, eg 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 half halt 2, 3, 4, 5., it helps focus on what is happening and what you are doing.
@AmeliaNewcombDressage
4 ай бұрын
So happy to hear this! Would love to have you at my free Pirouettes Webinar happening this weekend where we will be talking more about activity in the canter! amelianewcombdressage.com/free-pirouette-webinar/
hi from australia thank you
I tried the 5 x 5 exercise yesterday. Made a real difference especially the touch on the bottom with the whip which did precipitate an explosive response but he is super sensitive to taps with the whip.
@AmeliaNewcombDressage
4 ай бұрын
Come join us for the free Pirouettes webinar this weekend where we'll be talking more about engagement in the canter! amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/three-tips-for-straightness/
Super
My horse is starting to really get the walk/canter now, but I’m struggling with canter/walk. Have you done any videos on that or do you have any tips? He tends to dive into the bridle and then trot first, and I’m not sure how to correct it without making him tense or worried.
@AmeliaNewcombDressage
2 ай бұрын
Check this out! amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/collection-canter-walk-canter-transitions/
@Bluemoonfarm17
2 ай бұрын
@@AmeliaNewcombDressage thank you so much! Can’t wait to watch that!