hi it's Josie and today I'd like to share with you a video that's going to help your horse with
his balance and suppleness in Canter the couple of prerequisites for this are that you have an
understanding of Rhythm and what rhythm is so rhythm is literally the trots a two beat Rhythm
the walks of four beat Rhythm the canter is a three beat Rhythm and you want that rhythm in
Trot we're going to do this to be one two one two one two it should be a metronome not one two one
two one two it's got to be one two one two so a nice metronome because when you're doing the
leg yield you want your Rhythm to stay the same and then you want to actually pop into Canter
because that's what we're going to do leg yield into Canter helps your horse with balance helps
him get his shoulder upright and helps him make a nice canter transition so let's get on with it
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so how are we going to do this is we're going to work at it
depending on how advanced your horse is so I'm going to just start off with
a horse that's not that advanced but does know how to do leg yield
so first of all we'll just talk about the lines you will use
depending on how advanced your horse is in leg yield so if he's not that advanced you
can just use the quarter line so come down the quarter line look where you're going then ask
your horse to come over don't allow him to just drift over make sure it's on your aids
so you'll use that line if your horse is a little
bit Greener because it's not so Steep and not so hard for him
if your horse is a little bit more advanced you can use the
center line to get him to leg yield across getting straight first then ask him off
remembering in leg yield the horse should be straight other than flexion and bend good boy
Rebel
and for the more advanced horse you can go from the long side better catch his shoulders there
that's better that's better you can see he was drifting in that first couple of steps there
good boy so you pick where your horse is at and you choose that line for leg yield now what we're
going to do is we're going to leg yield to the track and then we're going to ask for Canter
what this does is put the weight onto the outside hind leg which
is the first leg that pushes off into Canter I'm going to come from the middle line here
so I'm going to go across now
I'm going to do it in Rising and then I'm going to bump bump Canter good boy and I said bump bump
because I sat until he was ready to be asked to canter now I'm going to come back to trot good boy
so the horse can only do the Canter transition when the outside hind leg is on the ground
because that's the first step of Canter it goes push off outside diagonal pair leading front
so so the reason I went bump bump is I have to wait until that left hind leg is on the ground
because that's the one that's going to push him into Canter if I ask him to canter as this foot
comes down he has to wait till he does another half a stride to get that other uh the left
hind leg on the ground to push off so I usually sit bump bump and Canter so as I go bump as the
second bump's coming I put my Aids on and then he can Canter so let's have a look at that again
good boy Rebel
so you have to have set your horse up correctly in the leg yield if it's not
set up correctly in the leg yield and he's all unbalanced he may not get the right canter lead
so he's coming over here wait till we get to the track on bump Canter
good boy so when I said Canter it was when I put my Canter Aids on good boy
now let's do that the other way
he wants to give a little bit of lengthen trot and show off good boy
so I bring him down whoops we overshot the center line not to worry it's leg yield him off
bump bump Canter good boy
so A beautiful way to get your horse to be more balanced in the Canter and do a
nice Canter transition a really really simple exercise good boy that you can do as long as
your horse knows how to leg yield and how to canter you can give that a go I'd love
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