okay hello everyone i'm amelia today we are talking about how to get your horse from the
inside leg and into the outside rain this is a concept that we hear a lot in dressage
and the reason that it's important is a couple of reasons one is that it helps to get your horse
supple two is that it helps to get your horse in better balance and it just really helps to control
your horse both physically and mentally so that's why it's really important i'm gonna give you guys
today a few exercises to help you understand how to get your horse off the inside leg and into the
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so first of all the reason that it's important to have your horse from inside leg to outside rain
is that when you get your horse off the inside leg and connected into the outside rain
it helps to engage your horse's inside hind leg it helps to get your horse a little more
uphill it helps to keep your horse more focused on the inside of the arena and not
you know looking to the outside and dropping their shoulder in and spooking it also helps
to get your horse a little more supple in their back and in their top line so today i'm going
to give you a few exercises to work on that and hopefully you can see how that helps you
and your horse so we're just going to start off here at the sitting trot
good boy once you have this feeling of being able to get your horse from left leg to right range
and from right leg to left ring you'll be amazed at how much more can in control and
supple and nice your horses to ride so the way that i always start with getting my horse from
inside leg to outside rain is a leg yield so i'm just gonna turn early here i'm gonna make
sure that i have contact in my right rain and then i'm just gonna push him from my left leg
to the right ring and you notice that i'm not doing a very steep leg yield like it's
not about going super sideways what i want is i want the feeling when i close my left leg
i want the feeling that he grows taller into the right ring like that he lifts up his withers
and his right shoulder as i push him a little bit off my left leg and then that i'm able to soften
and give on that left ring so you can see here i'm holding the right rein
i'm giving the left ring and i'm thinking about using my left leg to push him
into that outside ring and you could see there he got a little fussy he kind of put his head up
he's like i don't really want to stay left leg to right right because for him
when i ask him to stay off my inside leg and to fill up that outside reign it really means that
he needs to be using his back and he needs to be using his top line and lifting up in the withers
so that's the exercise that i do it's really important to do this exercise
in both directions so what you'll find and you can let me know in the comment section is that
it's much easier to get your horse either from right leg to left rain or from left leg to right
range so let me know which is easier for you um let's try so now i'm going to do the leg yield
off of my right leg and think about filling up the left ring so i would say on this horse
it's pretty even left and right and that's your goal is that as you train your horse
you want to get them to where they go from inside leg to outside rain evenly in both directions so
here again i'm thinking about getting him going from my left leg and filling up
into the right reign of boy jack so the test of if your horse is inside leg to outside rain
is that you want to be able so let me do my little leg yield i'm put closing my right
leg at the earth i want to feel him come up into the outside rain and then i want
to be able to give on that inside rain so when your horse is from inside leg to outside rain
you can give on the inside rain and you notice that nothing changes so when i have him from
right leg to left rain i give on the right rain he stays flexed right he stays into my left
rain the tempo and the rhythm stay the same what happens a lot particularly tracking to the right
is that horses want to be like this oh and you see how he tripped because i threw him off balance
so horses want to be like this they want to go around to the right and bend to the left
and fall on their right front foot and you can see how this is not a good balance for my horse so i
really that's why inside leg to outside rain is so important because i'm engaging this right hind leg
i'm helping my horse to bend properly on the circle and to stay from my right leg
into my left brain so that's really why this exercise is so important good boy
so yeah try out this little like baby leg yield and it's you know again getting your horse from
inside leg to outside rain when you use the leg yield it's not about how much you go sideways
it's just really about that feeling that you kind of want to be able to squash your horse's mass
from your inside leg and receive it up through your horse's withers into the outside reign
and this creates suppleness because it stretches your horse's diagonal pair like if you're if
you're pushing your horse from your right leg to your left rein you're stretching that diagonal
pair it gets your horse's withers and back to lift it gets them to engage that inside hind leg which
gets them more uphill so when we think about dressage and we think about collection and we
want our horses to get more uphill it really starts from getting the horse to lower and
engage their hind end and that's really important that getting your horse uphill isn't just about
pulling their head up it's about getting their hind into lower and inside leg to outside rain
starts to help get that it also starts to help straighten your horse so like i mentioned
really getting where you can do the baby leg yield equally from the left leg
and from the right leg and then once you have this concept then progressing on to your shoulder in
um and your shoulder four but i recommend doing the leg yields and really working on the little
leg yield before you start with your shoulder and your shoulder floor so hopefully this video is
helpful and work on getting your horse from inside leg to outside rain and thanks for watching okay
you