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all right hello everyone i'm amelia today we are talking about flying changes i'm going to explain
to you exactly the aids and the preparation that you need to get a good flying change
this is natasha she is the master of the flying changes she's a grand prix horse
and her flying changes are amazing i just did a freestyle with her where we did
two tempi's on a half circle into one to piece on a line
the thing that's important to remember is that it takes a long time to train your horse to do
the flying changes correctly and probably a horse like natasha has done like thousands and thousands
of flying changes in her life it's a lot to coordinate because your horse basically has
to go from one lead and then change all of their legs midair organize that and do it when you ask
to get onto the other lead so the biggest thing that is important when you are getting ready to do
a flying change or when you're teaching your horse a flying change is the quality of your canter and
the quality of your can or walk canner transition so if i'm going to get ready for a flying change
the first thing you that i do is i practice my can or walk counter transitions
so you want your can or walk canner transitions basically what you're looking for
in your walk to canner transition is that you want your horse to to be really active and through with
the hind leg the first stride from a light aid so i'm gonna whisper canner she's gotta jump you see
how that first canner stride it could even be a little more but the first canner stride has
to be super jumpy with the hind leg and round in the neck so active and through good girl
and then for the canner quality itself you have to have a clear rhythm and you have
to have volume in the counter stride so it's got to be jumping jumping jumping jumping the
more jump that you have in your canner the more likely you're going to be to have a good flying
change because your horse has to do the flying change when all four feet are off the ground
so before i do my flying changes i do a lot of can or walk hander transitions
and a lot of simple changes the other thing that's really important is that whenever you're
in the canter your legs have to be in canter position so when i'm in left league canner
my right leg is always slightly behind the girth so as i go past the camera here you
can see my right leg is slightly behind the girth telling my horse for the left leg canter
okay so i'm going to get ready to do some changes and i feel like my canner canners were good
and my camera quality is good i'm going to turn on the half diagonal from h to b my
right leg is back i make her supple on the right i bring my right leg forward she does a change
so i'll show you again from right to left on the half diagonal i'm going to go from h from e to m
i'm going to make her straight and a little supple to the left
half halt half halt and change good girl
good good girl so a couple of things that are super important for your flying changes one is
that like let's say i'm in left league canner right and i'm gonna turn across and go to b
so i've just made the turn here right and she's in left bend my right leg is a little back
i'm starting to get ready for a flying change to the right now the first thing that i need to do is
i'm going to keep my legs in this position until i want the change but i need to make her supple to
the right so that she can actually do the flying change before i ask for the change so i'm in left
lead canner what i'm going to start doing is i'm going to start pressing a little with my
right leg behind the girth and supplying a little the fingers on the right so see how i have her
in right bend now but she's still in left league canner then when i bring my right leg forward
that's when i would ask for the change and you also when you ask for the change you want to
give a little bit your inside ring so i'm going to turn around and do that at the camera now
so i've got my inner leg at the girth my outer leg behind the girth
left flexion i make her straight i supple her on the right my right leg is back
right leg forward right rein give so let me show you once from the other way i'm going to
talk you through it at the walk first good girl so i remember like when i was first learning to
do the flying changes and my instructor was trying to explain the flying changes to me and i was so
confused about like new inside like old inside leg like the set up for it it was super confusing so i
recommend like if you're confused about the flying changes just practice a lot of simple changes
where you go canner walk can or walk okay so i'm on rightly canner i've just made a turn to the
right i'm going to start setting her up for a left left flying change so my left leg is behind the
girth she's bent to the right now the first thing that i'm going to do is i'm going to press with
my left leg back here to move her body a little over to the right so her body has to move this
way so that she can open up and do that change to the left because if you don't move her over
and she's leaning left she's not going to be able to make a clean change to the left
so i'm going to push with my left leg and move her body over it's kind of like um
it's like a baby leg yield but you don't really want to actually move
sideways you just want to kind of get your heart to lean over that way i'm going to use my fingers
on the left ring to get her flexing a little to the left and then once she's set up my left
leg comes forward and i give the left ring so it's really important that your legs changing
is what makes the flying change happen i'm gonna go the canner and show that to you in the counter
okay so rightly canner
left leg is behind the girth my horse is slightly flexed to the right i'm turning
i'm going to push with my left leg and make her suffer left
left leg forward left ring give good girl so really the flying change is all about the setup
and basically you're a good girl the the setup for the flying change is that you have to get
your horse to like bend in their body the other way before you ask them for the change so like if
you're going in leftly canner and you can imagine that your horse is like a little bit shoulder for
left and kind of shaped like a banana to the left you have to get your horse to be able to shape
like a banana to the right in lefty canner before you ask for the change so one thing that i do
a lot of um when i'm first teaching
my horses is that i will do counter canner so like i'll pick up the right leg canner here
and i'll practice being able to bend my horse to the left and rightly canner so you see how here
she's bent left but she's still in rightly canner and this is different from the aid from the change
so a lot of people when they change the bend the horse is already doing the flying chain so what i
want with my horses is that i want them to wait for my legs to change before they do the flying
change so i'm moving her into my right brain fault half halt give the left change good girl
good girl
good girl that's really the secret to um
to getting the tempe changes is that your horse has to listen to
your leg position your leg position is what determines the lead and not the flexion so
you don't want to be like pulling your horses side to side for the flying change it's really
about your leg position which determines the flying change and what lead they're on so
let me know if this was helpful i'm thinking about making a course on flying changes so let me know
if that's something that you would be interested in because flying changes are super hard to teach
it takes a long time and you need like a lot of different exercises to be able to play with
to get them to happen but this is just a start on that and i hope that it helps you with your
flying changes so thanks for watching be sure to give me a thumbs up subscribe to my channel
it really helps me out and i hope that you enjoy your horse and have a wonderful day
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