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hello everyone i'm amelia and today we're giving you some tips on how to develop your canter
lengthening or your medium canner so let me know in the comments if you're planning on showing this
year i'm gonna be doing a free webinar on sunday may 1st to get you guys ready for show season
so starting at first level you have counter lengthenings and then at second level third
level fourth level all the way up to the grand prix you have medium canner so in today's video
i'm going to give you some tips for how to develop the medium canter or the canter lengthening
and i think the trickiest part about these is the transitions into and then back from the medium
canner so that's what we're going to be covering today mercurio is our demo horse and yeah be sure
to let me know in the comments if you're planning on showing this year and what level or if you're
not planning on showing there's still going to be a lot of great tips in here to help you
improve your canter you definitely want to do a nice long warm-up routine with your horse before
you start working on your medium canner and then the way that i like to start developing either the
can or lengthening or the medium canner is just on a circle the big difference between a lengthening
canner and a medium canner is that in a medium canner you want to maintain collection in a can
or lengthening you want to show a lengthening of the stride so i'm going to kind of go over both of
those although the basic idea is more or less the same so the first thing is you saw me correcting
with my legs there i just want to establish my canter like so this would be my collected canner
and then from here i'm going to start doing some transitions within the canner so i'm
going to start going bigger forward forward and then i'm going to start collecting a little bit
at fault half wall you guys are fine you can stay at fault half off half halt and then bigger bigger
bigger bigger and then half halt half out half full half out and bigger so it's a lot easier to
start getting some adjustability in your canter on a circle rather than just trying to do it on
the straight line a couple things that are really important is that you're always pushing forward
on the upbeat of the counter so when the main is up up up now i'm thinking forward forward forward
and then same thing when i come back it's on the up up up up up up good boy so that's the best
way to start developing your medium camera or your camera lengthening is on a circle
doing some transitions forward and back the other thing that you really want to think about through
those transitions is your seat so if you think about in the canner the canner your horse's back
actually goes up and then level and then down it gives this like seesaw motion in the walk in the
trot your horse's back basically stays horizontal but in the canner your horse's back actually goes
up and then straight and then down so because of that your seat follows kind of a swishing motion
where your seat swishes from the back to the front of the saddle and so what you want to do
as you're doing these transitions like bigger in the canner and more collected in the canner
is that the trajectory of your seat has to change so if i'm doing my collected canner
i think about my hips are kind of going in a circle motion so if i'm just in a collected canner
my hips are going back to front back to front back to front back to front up and down back
to front up and down back to front up and down now if i'm going to ride a canner lengthening
and i want the steps to get bigger the first thing i do is i think about that upbeat and
then what i'm going to think about is instead of doing a circle with my hips i'm going to do
a horizontal oval so i'm going to start swishing my hips longer in the saddle from back to front
now it's important to note that i'm not driving with my hips oops i'm i'm starting to ask for
the longer stride from my leg so i'm going to go press press press and swing press and swing press
instantly so i press with my leg and now i swing with my hips so you can see here how my hips
and my elbows are swinging a lot more than they were in my collected canner so now i'm half hold
back back back back now my hips are making more just an up and down circle now bigger forward
slower bigger swing slower bigger swing half out half out half a half out half full half ball now
once you have that on the circle the next step is to take it on the straightaway really think about
your corners and your short side so i'm thinking shoulder four corner shoulder four i'm gonna make
sure to get my horse straight and balanced and then i'm gonna think about slower bigger
slower bigger slower bigger and then i'm going to use a small circle to bring my horse back from
the medium canner and then when i get back to the rail i'm going to go again get him uphill shoulder
four slower bigger slower bigger slower bigger and again i'm gonna use a small circle to collect him
so notice a few things one is that i always am taking time to set up for
the medium canner so like get my horse straight uphill and now big big big
big the other thing is rather than pulling back i'm just using a circle to collect collect collect
collect and then leg uphill lean up forward bigger forward bigger forward bigger half up good boy
good boy so i'll do it one time the other way but that's really the best is to start your
canner lengthening or medium can or start working it on a circle
then take it to the straightaway but don't do the whole diagonal just do about half of the
diagonal and then use a circle to bring your horse back rather than pulling good
i'm always just picky about my walk canner transitions that he's not allowed to brace
or hollow so i'm going to think about a good corner shoulder four uphill and now bigger
bigger bigger now i'm going to make a circle and half out not going to pull half i'll give
half i'll give he got a little strong but it was nice that i had that circle to bring him back then
again bigger bigger and then come back half hold half half hole half hole and again bigger bigger
bigger bigger half half turn turn yes turn get turn give turn give turn get good boy
so you'll get to the point if you do like practice going medium canner or can or lengthening and then
use a circle to come back from the lengthening you'll get to the point that you don't need
the circle but that rather you can just think shoulder four and your horse will start to know
that it's a corner coming up they'll come back a little bit more automatically but using the
circle is a really good way to get your horse to come back without having to pull so much so
i hope you found this video helpful and keep working on it like i said do work on it on the
circle work on little short increments of it don't just drill like the whole long side over
and over again because your horse is going to get stronger and more supple and more gymnastic
by doing smaller bouts of it and also by working on it on the circle so thanks for watching give us
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