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hello everyone i'm amelia and today we are talking about what to do when your horse hollows or puts
their head up in the trot to canner transition or in the transition into canner let me know in the
comments if you struggle with this i think that almost all of us struggle that when we ask our
horse to canter we basically suddenly realize that our horse isn't honestly through and connected and
a lot of times they'll put their head up because it's easier for them so in today's video i'm going
to give you three tips to help keep your horse rounder in the transition into the canner be sure
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so tip number one for if your horse hollows in the canner
is to go back to your trots walk trot transitions so oftentimes you will be
able to fix the hollowing in the canter when you really go back and focus on these transitions so
i want to make sure that when i go from walk to trot that my horse's neck position does not change
so you don't want to stare down at your horse's head but you kind of want to use your peripheral
vision what i see now is that i see an arc in his neck so that like from his pull to his withers
there's basically a semi-circle in front of me that's how i know if he's round then when i ask
for the trod i'm really focusing on that that pole position does not change that that arc in
his neck stays exactly the same and that he does not hollow in the walk to trot transition because
i guarantee you if your horse hollows in the trot to canner transition they hollow a little bit
in these trot walk trot transitions so just go back to your top walk troughs really work on it
if you find oh my gosh like my horse totally comes above and inverts and puts his head up when i ask
for trot like this and see how that time i lost the frame he's not round anymore so if that's the
case then you need to make your horse a little extra round so if i'm here and i want to make
my horse a little extra round i take my hands a little wide and then i move i keep a steady
outside rain and i supple that inside rain to get him a little bit rounder so i hold the outside
rain i move my fingers on the inside rain to get him a little bit rounder i have him a little extra
round and then as i close my legs for the trot my hands could be a little wide i'm moving my fingers
i'm saying hey stay round and stay there good boy so that's tip number one go back to your chop walk
trot transitions tip number two is to ride the trot a little more forward and rounder into the
canter so what i see happen a lot of times is people are just kind of like going in this slow
trot and the horse isn't really round and then they say okay canner and canner come on tanner
and see the horse like basically puts his head up and he doesn't really understand what i want him
to do because he wasn't prepared so instead i'm gonna get him round i'm gonna think about riding a
little more forward in the trot so i might even go posting trot and say come on trot a little bigger
trot a little more forward make sure that i can really keep him round in this bigger trot
i want to be able to have steady on the outside rain and giving on the inside rain
and then carry that roundness into the canner so i wouldn't say he hollowed in that transition
he did come up a little tiny bit when he picked up the canner so i'm just gonna get
a really nice canner going again get that nice rhythm that i need
and then back to the trot
round round forward forward forward forward round round round good boy make sure that you stay kind
of riding your horse through the transition so as i'm asking him for canner i'm making sure
to keep him round and keep riding him through in that transition it also really helps
to think about having your horse in a little bit of a bending line
so like he's off my inside leg and into my outside reign so he's really diagonally through here and
with that bend with that shoulder four trotting forward forward forward counter good boy
good boy so that's tip number two is have your horse a little rounder and more forward in the
trot and then just kind of prioritize like if you go like if i'm trotting along here
and i go to astacaner and he puts his head up get him round again keep thinking can her
keep thinking can her get him around keep thinking can her get him around get him round get him round
good so prioritize him staying round over that he has to actually canter right when you ask him
good boy mercurio good boy so my third tip which would probably be my first tip because you always
want to check your position first and a lot of the times horses hollow in the trot canner transition
because our position doesn't stay honest so one of the most common things that i see and like i
literally see this all the time is someone's going along and they have like a pretty nice
trot going the horse is round everything's nice and then it time comes time to canter and they
completely change like they go like this they lean forward and they're like come on canner
okay so sorry mercuria but you can see how there's no way that my horse can stay round when i change
my position that much so instead you really want to think about okay hands down connected
legs wrapped around my horse really following elbows following seat half halt
and canter so you see how i really stayed fluid and right with him throughout that transition
good boy so that he could stay round and through and supple in the transition boy
good boy
good boy good boy curio so those are three tips that i have let me know in the comments
what other tricks you use with your horse to help them stay round
in the canner and i also have a lot of other videos about can are different ways to set up the
canner transition i like using you can use a leg yield into the canner transition you can do the
snowman just kind of figure out what works best for your horse but always going back to the basics
so going back to like your walk trot walk checking in with your position that's super important to
help figure out why your horse is hollowing in the canner transition so i hope you like this video
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