everyone I'm Amelia today we're talking about how to sit the caner and how to move your body with a
horse's motion in the canner the canner is a very different motion from the trot the trots of to
beat motion it's kind of like just a bouncing up and down the canner is more of a circular kind of
a rocking horse movement so when you can ER your hips actually a little bit move to from the back
to the front of the saddle like as the horse takes the stride forward and then your hips need to I
always think about keeping my shoulder still and then moving my hips so your shoulders are kind of
still relative to the ground and your hips are moving back to front it's really important that
you move with your horse in the canter because if you don't your horse isn't going to keep Cannery
like a lot of riders tighten up and they kind of like our bouncing the caner or posting the caner
that's all gonna cause your horse to tighten up their back and they probably are not going to
keep cantering so let me demonstrate okay so when i'm cantering first i need to get a nice forward
canter going so that's an important piece of it you want to get your horse going forward enough
but you don't feel like you have to keep driving them all the time but I want to just have a nice
counter where I feel like I can kind of let my legs hang now when I think about my seat my seat
is doing a little swish in the saddle from back to front every stride so it's going back front
back front swish swish swish swish swish swish so that because that's what the horse's back is
doing so as I'm carrying around here my seats going back to front back to front back to front
and then there's a little moment where your seat goes front to back but that's not as important so
some common or mistakes that I see riders make the most common is that they just don't let their hip
joint like your hip joint right here pasta flex in the camper so if you don't let that flex and your
stiff your butt's gonna start doing this you see how now I'm slapping in the saddle it's kind of
like I'm almost posting the caner and that's not good so again if I let my hip joints move now I'm
sitting in the canner another one that I often see is that riders can err with their shoulders
instead of their hips so they kind of like I can't even do it it's really hard to do let me see if I
can demonstrate so when riders canter with their shoulders they're basically going like this like
they're trying to pump with their shoulders to get the horse to canter and you can see how this horse
is like what are you doing so I've got to keep my shoulders and my hands still and let my hips kind
of swing forward between my hands so let's do the other lead so again a good canter seat your hips
are moving from back to front in the saddle your upper body is vertical over your hips so I'm not
too far forward nor am I too far back I'm thinking of that little swishing motion that my hips have
to swish from the back to the front of the saddle if I lock up my hips I'm gonna get this right now
you can see bounce bounce bounce bounce that's not very nice for my horses back because I'm landing
in the saddle every stride if you're moving too much in your shoulders or your upper body rather
than your hips you're gonna get like this where are you kind of like and you see my horses like
oh should I try it I don't know what she wants but if you're trying to pump with your body and
move your shoulders too much that's not good either so again your Kantar seed is really a
swish from back to front that your butt swishes and I don't you know I'm not gonna like drive
like this with my seat like excessively but I am gonna be sure that I'm following the motion of
my horse so that I get a big elastic forward ground covering canter your horse is gonna
canter how your hips move so if I move my hips in a big circular forward arc my horse is gonna
canter that way if I can or with a stiff back and a stiff hip my horse is gonna canter with a
stiff back and a stiff hip so those are just some things to think about for your canter seat thanks
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